Weyerhaeuser’s Flexo Printing Facilities Streamline Plate Mounting

“Before, it would take one of our mounters about one hour to mount a plate on the print cylinder,” continues Matthews. “With the leader machine they can do it in about ten minutes. From a quality standpoint, one of our biggest downtime problems was sending jobs to the printing press that were not in registration, or were not quite right, and we would have to go back and re-work it. With the Leader machine we can actually see mathematically before we go to press whether or not the plates are in the proper position. As opposed to looking at a printed proof that may have too much ink to clearly tell if it is in registration, we know exactly what the registration is before we go to press. We have the ability to stop and re-work something before it goes to the press instead of afterwards and creating downtime.”