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Flint Group nyloflex^® Digital printing plates

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New! nyloflex FAM Digital

Robust and flexible - especially for wide web flexible packaging

New nyloflex FAM Digital provides superior printing quality with sharper images, more open intermediate depths, finer highlight dots and less dot gain, i.e. larger range of tonal values, and improved contrast. You will realize increased productivity and data transfer without loss of quality due to digital workflow. Other benefits include greater consistency in quality when repeating plate processing, plus cost effective and more environmentally friendly in processing, as no film is required.

nyloflex FAM Digital Literature (PDF, 360KB)

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nyloflex^® NExT
New innovative approach to achieve Flat Top Dots!

nyloflex® NExT Exposure Technology enables a 1:1 reproduction of finest image details.

nyloflex^® NExT high-output UV technology generates unique element shapes with precisely reproduced surfaces, commonly known as Flat Top Dots, providing all the benefits linked to this structure: increased tonal range along with an optimised surface texture to greatly improve ink lay down and solid ink density.

All the processes currently being used today to produce a plate with a flat top profile are designed to prevent oxygen exchange between ambient air and photopolymerisable layer during the exposure step, either by blocking it at the plate surface with barrier films or by displacing the oxygen with inert gases.

Compared to alternative systems, the main advantage of the new nyloflex^® NExT exposure technology is that it does not involve the use of inert gases with all its risks and does not require additional expensive consumables. Furthermore there are no processing steps added to the standard digital plate workflow, such as film or negative film lamination. The nyloflex^® NExT process can easily be integrated in the existing workflow of digital plates.

Solid-screening of nyloflex® NExT ACE digital plate with new nyloflex® NExT Exposure Technology.

The only change required with nyloflex^® NExT process is the addition of an advanced high energy UV light source, which accelerates the polymerisation in the image areas so much, that the competitive termination reaction with oxygen becomes insignificant. In combination with a standard UV tube, exposure a virtual 1-1 reproduction from the LAMS image onto the plate is accomplished. Recent printing tests with nyloflex^® NExT exposed plates even indicate further advantages on press like improvements in impression latitude and reduction to gear streaks.

Printing tests with nyloflex^® NExT exposed plates even indicate further advantages on-press, such as improvements in impression latitude and reduction to gear streaks.