Weyerhaeuser’s Flexo Printing Facilities Streamline Plate Mounting

Mounting multiple jobs

One of the key features about this system from an efficiency standpoint is that because the machine mounts the plates—they are not manually mounted—and places them with digital precision, multiple plate mounting cycles can be done simultaneously, and the action of plate mounting can cross work shifts easily without any variation in plate placement accuracy. For example, if three different workers are mounting conventionally, they would have to finish one job before they started the next, or risk losing their registration. With the Leader they can mount a dozen cylinders and a dozen different jobs at the same time—the machine stores the data on all of the coordinates, which can be retrieved at any time. Literally, the system permits entry and retrieval of thousands of mounting jobs.