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3M Stickyback Mounting Tapes

3M Stickyback Mounting Tapes

When you want solid ink and crisp lines, you'll want firm, high density mounting tape. For halftone work where dot gain is a concern, a softer tape optimizes reproduction. And when solids and dots share the plate, a combination tape can properly balance the result. With 3M stickyback mounting tapes, you can find exactly what you need for the quality customers expect.

3M Pro Series Mounting Tapes

Working faster while achieving great results takes a reliable product. Introducing the 3M™ Cushion-Mount™ Pro-Series Plate Mounting Tape, the next generation of the 3M Flexo portfolio. Specially engineered with Comply™ adhesive, it’s designed to solve the challenges that often hamper print operations. The new Pro-Series Plate Mounting Tape is chock full of features that will benefit flexo printers concerned with print quality.

3M Flexomount Sticky Back Solid Printing Tapes

Two categories of Flexomount Solid Printing tapes are available: 1) A Gray double coated tape with a soft rubber adhesive on each side of a vinyl carrier. These tapes have a higher adhesion and helps reduce edge lifting. 2) A Black double coated tape with a firm rubber adhesive on each side of a vinyl carrier. These tapes have lower adhesion but higher temperature and solvent resistance.

3M Cushion-Mount™ Plus Sticky Back Combination Printing Tapes

These come in categories of “Standard” , “Firm” and “Soft”. The “Standard” tapes use a differential acrylate adhesive on medium density polyethylene foam and are good for flexo printing from highlights and mid tones through solid work. The “Firm” tapes have better solid ink density than the standard. The “Soft” tapes have better Soft support improves tone reduction when process and halftone images predominate.

3M™ Cushion-Mount™ Plus Sticky Back Process Printing Tape

The 3M™ Cushion-Mount™ Plus Process Printing Tapes provide better tone reproduction than the standard combination printing tapes, as well as a clean removal from plate and print cylinder. They have a differential acrylate adhesive system on each side of a foam carrier, protected by a release liner on one side. These, and the 2 products above, come in versons for sleeves and for stainless steel cylinders.

tesa® Tape Stickyback Mounting Tapes

tesa® offers a comprehensive assortment of plate mounting tapes with foam, film, or cloth backings to fulfill all flexo printing needs. tesa Softprint® plate mounting tapes with high-quality foam backings for the highest demands in flexographic printing. tesaprint® plate mounting tapes with film or cloth backings are used whenever a cushion is not required.

Lohmann Stickyback Mounting Tapes

Plate mounting tapes from Lohmann have been instrumental in the positive development of the flexographic printing process. Increasingly difficult printing jobs mean that plate mounting tapes must adapt accordingly. Only then can the higher quality printed image be achieved. This complex requirement can only be covered by exactly adjusted degrees of foam compressibility. The "Duplo" range of stickyback tapes from Lohmann contains versions for the entire spectrum of flexographic printing.

Rogers Stickyback Mounting Tapes

R/bak® Cushion Mounting Materials are advanced microcellular urethanes with an open cell construction that offer exceptional energy absorption and resiliency. It acts as a pressure reducer and shock absorber for flexographic printing plates. Using the R/bak® system will improve registration, reduce dot gain, decrease plate deformation, improve ink transfer, and allow the use of finer screens for finer line work.

Adheso Graphics Stickyback Mounting Tapes

Adheso's multi-density, high-recovery, PE foam tapes feature the latest adhesive systems technology. Developed for wide web, flexible packaging print reproduction, and photopolymer or rubber printing plates of all thicknesses and types. Achieve maximum ink coverage on screen areas, minimize occurrences of dot gain or slur. Achieve optimal results when using proper impression settings on press.