Articles on Plate Mounting

What Is The Best Tape For Flat-Top Plates? (Part One) The Results of APR's Study of the Effects of Mounting Tapes on Digital Flat-Top Plates Get the complete results of the study! Click Here to download a PDF containing the results from the APR's Study of the Effects of Mounting Tapes on Digital Flat-Top Plates. … Read More...
Advantages to Cylinder Build Up Material Advantages to cylinder build up material include enabling the user to optimize smaller print cylinders for orders requiring longer repeats, therefore minimizing the need for addition costly print cylinder purchases. Build up materials come in a variety of thickness, two of the most common thicknesses are .040" for 1/4 … Read More...
APR helps specialty printer find the ideal tape and mounting plate combinations Customer: Packaging Specialties of Georgia is a food packaging printer servicing industries such as poultry and consumer goods. Situation: To maintain a competitive advantage, be more efficient and standardize plate materials, Packaging Specialties of Georgia seeks expert tape mounting analysis. Solution: A highly … Read More...
APR helps a leading supplier of plates for corrugated box plants stay on a path to growth Customer: Adko is a premier supplier of polymer printing plates for some of the biggest corrugated box plants in the nation. Situation: A growing dissatisfaction with the quality of mounting materials from their long-standing supplier leads them to … Read More...
Introduction This multi-part article will explore some of the more common but less controlled causes for replacing the photopolymer printing plate. Reasons for replacing an expensive photopolymer plates can vary greatly. In Part 1 of this series we focused on many advantages of deep plate cleaning with automatic plate washing systems, including how we extend … Read More...