Right Recipe

The impact of increased plate life on sustainability can be huge, Abray says, especially when the customer is running, say, an SKU of five million pieces each month. Further upstream, “they’re able to run their press faster and get up to speed quicker without having to mount as many plates or use as much backing tape.” It stands to reason, therefore, “If their latitude for impression variation in the pressroom is larger, they aren’t creating as much waste from roll to roll or shift to shift.”