Category Archives: Platemaking

Part 8 - Driving Pressroom Sustainability with Prepress Innovation The flexographic printing industry is constantly changing with new innovations released every year. These innovations range from automated press technology to advanced anilox engravings, to ingenious cleaning devices. However, some of the most integral flexo innovations in the past years have been from prepress and plate … Read More...

Part 7 - Improving Plate Longevity and Reuse Sustainability can come from environmentally friendly raw materials as well as the elimination of waste in your manufacturing process. In printing it can also come by increasing plate longevity or the ability to reuse plates multiple times on press. Photopolymer plates are a costly investment, so we … Read More...

Part 6 - Plateroom Habits that Affect Sustainability When you hear the word “habit”, it is typically used in conjunction with bad habits that need to be broken. However, habits can be good when you purposefully start them to benefit your production. In this article, we want to discuss good habits in the plateroom that … Read More...

Part 5 - Reducing Plate Waste When one explores the potential sources of press waste, our thought process immediately focuses on the substrate. Rightfully so because material costs are often the most expensive and hit the bottom line the hardest. However, have you considered press uptime as part of your equation? Keep in mind that … Read More...

Part 4 - Plates, Plate Packaging and the 5 Rs Here at DuPont™ Cyrel® Solutions, we think flexo plates are remarkable examples of precision engineering (and yes, we realize we are a little biased…). Consider, for instance, the flatness of a full-sized 50” x 80”, 0.067” (1.70 mm) thick Cyrel® plate. The thickness of this … Read More...

Part 3 - Changing the mindset: thinner flexo plates deliver quality and sustainability to the corrugated market Thinner corrugated plates have been used for high end direct corrugated printing for many years. Now is the time to shift the industry to thinner plates for 1 or 2 color jobs. Thinner plates show benefits in many … Read More...

Part 2 - Plate considerations when working with sustainable inks and substrates Sustainable substrate trends Driven by consumer interest and increased sustainability initiatives of brand owners, today’s flexo printers are being challenged with new, unfamiliar substrates, or may find themselves printing with water-based inks for the first time. For instance, trends in paper substrates involve … Read More...

Part 1 - Next Generation Plate Making and the Pursuit of Green The two most talked about topics right now in the flexo industry are sustainability and labor shortages. As we look at the future of flexographic plate making, we must be sure to have solutions for these topics as a priority. DuPont™ Cyrel® has … Read More...

It’s important to have a strategy to evolve your printing as your business grows. Customers are continuously challenging your capabilities, and you want to remain competitive. This is a path to addressing business concerns. Often, gains can be realized with simple updates to your current equipment. There are three key points to consider: throughput, space, … Read More...