Printing flexography

Polyamides can generally be decorated by painting, metallization, printing, flexography, offset, serigraphy, heliography. 

The primary printing presses used in plastics are gravure printing, flexography, silk-screen printing, and pad printing. 

Flexography Printing of a surface directly from a rubber or other synthetic plate. Manual. Semi- or automatic press, dryers. 

Standard Si-processing Ink-Jet Screen Printing Offset, Gravure, and Flexography... 

The greatest strengths of UV flexography are its versatility and cost-effectiveness. Since UV inks do not dry until they pass under the UV lamp, the ink stays completely open. Unsightly print defects like dot bridging... 

UV inks have been readily and successfully adopted by flexographic label printers, many of them having had several years of experience with letterpress UV systems. Because the common thickness of the printed ink in flexography is typically 2 to 4 pm, in multicolor printing it is often necessary to cure individual layers of inks by UV. With radical UV-curable flexographic printing inks, it is possible to achieve printing speeds of 250 m/min (750 ft/min) or even more.22... 

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Fig. 12.1. Schematic diagram of operating principle of several graphic art printing techniques (A) gravure, (B) offset, (C) flexography, (D) pad printing, (E) screen printing, (F) inkjet printing (A, B, C, D, E reprinted with permission from Ref [9]. Copyright (2001) by Springer).

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