nyloflex XVH Digital and nyloprint WF SHARP Digital plates

Flexographic plates and sleeves specialist Flint Group has launched the latest additions to its plate solutions, a new flexo thermal plate, nyloflex XVH Digital, and nyloprint WF SHARP Digital, water washable, film-based plates for the high-end label market.

The nyloflex XVH Digital is the first inherently flat top dot plate of the thermal plates family, processed on the nyloflex Xpress Thermal Processor. It is designed for the flexible packaging and label market, delivering high quality print results on various substrates with all ink systems. Thanks to the inherent flat top dots, there is no need for additional equipment or auxiliaries.

The Xpress Thermal Processing System was first launched in 2016. Friedrich von Rechteren, global commercial VP flexographic, said, ‘Thermal processing systems for the production of flexographic printing plates have been in the market for many years. We didn’t believe that with the technology available at that time, we could meet our customers, or our own quality expectations from thermally processed plates.’

Mr von Rechteren continued, ‘As we shadowed the market and developments in thermal technologies, we put a focus group within our own R&D department with the aim to develop a thermal processing system, which delivers print results the market has never seen before.’

The nyloprint WF SHARP Digital is ideal for high quality print jobs as well as for aluminium and plastic laminated tubes.

The new technology delivers digital images with up to 10.160dpi for superior print quality with sharper images, more open reverses and finer highlights. The digital workflow allows data transfer without loss of quality and photopolymer plate technology allows the plate to be processed on all common types of processing equipment. The high flexibility of the polyester base and its superior adaption to different cylinders simplify mounting. Furthermore, the durability of the digital label plates leads to longer print runs and increased resource efficiency.

‘We leveraged our vast knowledge in the letterpress segment to develop the nyloprint WF SHARP Digital plates. It is specifically designed for letterpress applications in the label market, completing our offering to label producers,’ said Mr von Rechteren.