The future for flexo may be digital, but the present still belongs to analog platemaking.

By Jean-Marie Hershey

Kadlec agrees. “Cost, awkward processing, and imaging restrictions handcuff digital flexo platemaking. Only a few organizations with deep pockets can afford digital flexo platemaking’s substantial expenses of material, sheet layout of usable work, (not to mention) press proofing of the incorrectly imaged plates.”