Weyerhaeuser’s Flexo Printing Facilities Streamline Plate Mounting

A better mounting solution

The Leader Vision system is a state-of-the-art vision system capable of mounting almost every type of flexographic printing plate. The computer and its software take electronic data from the art department and send it directly to the mounter/proofer computer to mount the plate with only two clicks from the mounter operator. It uses a dual-camera system, with a large view camera which locates microdots or reference points on a prepress table holding the plate to be mounted. The narrow view camera then magnifies the microdots 70 times and pinpoints the exact centerpoint for accurate registration. The plate is then positioned, and the Leader Vision system brings the plate up against the press cylinder with a pressure roller and applies the plate exactly to a corresponding microdot position on the press. Operator variations are removed because this system does not require the operator to position the microdots.