Improvement of productivity and cost reductions play an increasingly important role in the printing industry – automation is one way to impact significantly on achieving these targets. Today the flexo form making process is far behind efficient automation found in other competing printing processes like offset and gravure. Working with print-ready files, offset and gravure printing forms are produced today with a high level of automation. In the competition for printing jobs, especially of big brand owners and major supermarket chains, cost control and a consistently high and increasing quality standard are the key factors – Flint Group Flexographic Products focused especially on these targets when developing the new processing equipment for flexographic printing forms.

Fully automated processing line for flexo plates combines a round brush washer with digital layer separation, a dryer including eight drying drawers, a unit for post exposure and light finishing (UV-A / UV-C) and a stacker with eight drawers, offering in total a capacity of up to 120 plates / 320 m2 per day. Suitable for processing high quality photopolymer plates up to a maximum size of 1320 x 2032 mm (52.0” x 80.0”) and from 0.7 mm to 7.0 mm plate thickness.

• fully automated processing line for excellent results with nyloflex® printing plates
• outstanding productivity and consistency
• enhanced workflow efficency and high level of standardisation to improve plate and print quality, minimise waste and failure rate and subsequently reduce costs and claims significantly
• digital washer with pre-wash section to remove and separate the black mask layer and 30 memory programs
• fast plate transportation due to optional batch mode
• extremely short washout times for less plate swelling and reduced drying times
• easy and comfortable handling