Right Recipe

While Autumn does some litho work on the consumer product company (CPC) side and performs some file assembly for gravure, on the flexo side it provides every segment of the industry from narrow-web label and folding cartons, to wide-web flexo.

Finding the right recipe

The company has been a user of the Kodak Flexcel NX System for platemaking since May of 2008, as well as becoming a recent beta user of Kodak’s new Flexcel NX Wide System for larger formats. (The new system reportedly will become commercially available in the U.S. by the end of June.) The Kodak system consists of a specially formulated Kodak Flexcel NX Thermal Imaging Layer exposed on a Kodak Flexcel NX imager using Kodak SQUAREspot imaging. After imaging, the thermal layer is laminated to the Kodak Flexcel NX Digital Flexographic Plate using the Kodak Flexcel NX Laminator, a process that removes the oxygen from between the layer and the plate, resulting in the creation of high-quality, flat-top dots. Autumn Graphics has also been using Kodak Digicap NX Screening technology since it became available, based on its ability to improve ink transfer and color gamut, especially on very smooth substrates.