Lewis Label Installs Esko Digital Plate Imager

FORT WORTH, Texas—Lewis Label Products installed an Esko CDI 2530 digital plate imager on July 18. Training and calibration is complete and digital plates are being produced and used for all flexographic presses. The transition of rotary letterpress plates to digital plates will begin next month.

Digital plate imagers are a breakthrough technology for pressure sensitive label and flexible packaging converters. The laser imaging technology enables Lewis Label to print higher quality images and higher line screens with more consistency and faster turn around.

The acquisition of the CDI 2530 completes Lewis Label’s transition to an all digital prepress workflow that began last year. The transition began with the installation of new prepress workflow software and raster image processor (RIP), followed by the installation of a thermal plate processor for flexographic plates, a new water wash out plate processor for rotary letterpress plates, a new plate exposure unit and a digital ink jet dot proofer.