Flexo Sleeves Gain Traction

Lightweight, durable, easy-to-handle flexo sleeves not only work well with less expensive substrates such as tissue, napkins, and paper towels, but also provide excellent laydown of solid and metallic inks in packaging applications. Flexo sleeves are being used in two ways: as carrier rolls for flat, imaged plates mounted on the surface or with the image directly engraved (in-the-round) on the sleeve surface. Each provides productivity enhancements for package printers.