Weyerhaeuser’s Flexo Printing Facilities Streamline Plate Mounting

Plate mounting bottleneck

The quality of a flexo printing job depends, to a large degree, on the care in which prepress preparations are carried out. This includes mounting the flexible plate on the printing cylinder, checking color registration, and proofing. The mounting of the printing plates onto printing cylinders requires a high degree of alignment accuracy. The image on the printing plate must be perfectly square and in register with the printing cylinder in order to print clearly. The arrangement of the printing plates in the exact predetermined relationship with one another requires that their position be accurately determined prior to mounting.