Flexography is a method of direct rotary printing that uses a flexible polymer printing plate that is attached to a plate cylinder. Flexography uses an anilox roll to bring ink to the plate. A metering roll or doctor blade process is used to remove excess ink from the anilox roll prior to applying ink to the plate. The plate then prints directly on the material making used. Flexography uses fast drying, low viscosity, solvents, water rooted inks, and UV curable inks. Die cutting takes place in-line, using a rotary cutting die once the printing and any varnish or overlaminates are applied.
Flexography is the fastest growing conventional printing procedure due in part to major upgrades in plate material and the plate making process as well as improvements to inks. Flexographic printing is the main opportunity of printing in the packaging world for process printing as well as spot paints on a wide variety of materials from board stock to pressure sensitive label stock. Because of its versatility, flexographic printing is spent for a wide range of offerings from boxes to bags, but the label industry uses flexographic printing almost exclusively.
The label industry uses flexography for manufacturing all kinds of labels for blank labels for thermal transfer printing, to eye-catching four color process printed product labels, and everything in between. Four color process uses screen cases of yellow, magenta, cyan, and black so are printed on top of each other to acquire a full range of colors as well as photographic images. Spot printing uses a particular color or colors to craft a printed image.
Other supplies of printing are available to the packaging industry. Due to the speed, versatility and cost, flexographic printing is still the better mode of printing in the label industry.
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