Greatly reduce or eliminate banding or gear marking using Nu Tech Coatings - Performance Enhancing Cylinder (PEC) Special Surface Coating
Patented Technology Developed Exclusively for Narrow Web Printers
This unique coating is applied directly on to your existing or newly manufactured cylinder. The key advantage is to provide a platform for a plate that will allow for consistent impression, eliminating a huge variable of the flexo process.
Key Advantages
- Greatly reduces or in most cases removes banding or gear marking
- As a digital plate platform - increases the life of digital plates
- Eliminates flexo "doughnut" dots, which significantly increases tonal range
- Increases press speeds and decreases make ready time
- Reduces dot gain, eliminates slur, and holds tiny reverses open and clean
- Mount plates directly to the cylinder with .005 tape
- Compatibility with all flexo solvents and inks
- Designed to resist damage from cutting
- Spin balanced for equilibrium
- One year limited warranty
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Specifications - PEC's are designed and manufactured to exacting specifications, which meet your requirements for tight tolerances. This will assure precise registration and print quality that exceeds your customer's expectations.
The following specifications apply to cylinders produced in sets or multiples of two starting with a minimum order of four. These tolerances are within a cylinder, as well as from cylinder to cylinder.
- Tolerance on outer diameter +/- 0.0005
- Tolerance on concentricity (TIR) +/- .001
- Cylindricity .00019" (Cylindricity describes a condition of a surface of revolution in which all points of a surface are equidistant from a common axis; i.e. roundness)
NuTech Sleeves
Nu Tech's high-quality sleeves are manufactured for the narrow web market. This can increase the impression latitude up to .015 inches, and absorb bounce or chatter, eliminating gear marks.
They reduce dot gain, eliminate slur, and hold tiny reverses open and clean. A faster turn around means reduced setup time, and the ability to run more jobs. Able to compete with printers who use advanced plate technology, they also provide inexperienced printers the ability to produce quality results.
- Increase press speeds (100%) and reduce lost time and materials.
- Use your existing sleeve inventory
- Contact us to set up a trial on your existing sleeves today
- Orders turned around in days from receipt of sleeves
- Reasonable prices
Recent Customer Comments:
"We recently tested a coated print cylinder from Nu Tech Coatings to help us with a problem job. It prints a full vignette in PMS 288 blue. It is the first time in my 17+ years in flexo printing that I have seen the same plate go from printing excessive gear streaks to zero gear streaks just by changing from a conventional print cylinder to this new coated print cylinder." — General Manager
"I don't know if anyone has heard about these special print cylinders called PEC (Performance Enhancing Cylinders) that eliminate gear marking. I was introduced to them about three or four months ago. We always had issues with [a vignette] label with gear marking, so I bought these PECs for our 4CP. The gear marks went away immediately. The cylinders are 2 - 3 times the cost of a normal hard case cylinder but, the results are well worth it in this case. We tried to over impress the plate during the run and we couldn't." — Plant Manager