High performing products from Flint Group Flexographic Products
NEW nyloflex® ACE Digital plate – the benchmark in flexo printing!
Another innovation from Flint Group, the NEW nyloflex® ACE Digital plate was recently introduced into the market with excellent reviews. Customers report that the plate runs much cleaner on press, without the need to stop for regular cleaning cycles. Fewer press stops for cleaning result in jobs running in less time with less waste, thereby providing significant cost savings to the printer.
A printing plate that runs cleaner provides more benefits than can be seen at first glance. For example, besides reducing time and waste, NEW nyloflex® ACE Digital plates require less cleaning, which actually increases the plate life, since less cleaning results in less surface damage and less mechanical abrasion to the plates. Longer lasting plates increase the number of plate usages, and in turn provide even more cost savings to the printer.
nyloflex® ACE plates have been a high performance standard for the package printer for over a decade, so why would Flint Group change a proven winner? As new prepress technologies such as high definition flexo and flat top dot (FTD) emerged, it became increasingly important to optimise the photopolymer plates used in conjunction with these technologies. For this reason, Flint Group reformulated its nyloflex® ACE Digital plate to provide benefits on press such as sharper details, high contrast images and smoother vignettes. As a result, additional benefits, such as less cleaning stops and less downtime waste emerged. “In addition to the extremely clean running nature of the plate, we have been able to maintain the high performance printing characteristics for which the nyloflex® ACE Digital plate has always been known,” confirms Joan Cekovsky-Kaza, Director of Sales Flint Group Flexographic Products North America.
Due to the positive feedback Flint Group received during the initial beta testing, conducted in all areas of flexo print applications in over 100 different print trials, Flint Group developed a special tool, a cost savings calculator, that allows the printer to determine the potential time savings, cost savings and capacity increase available to him by switching to the NEW nyloflex® ACE Digital plate. This simple tool provides the printer an effective means to put values behind the plate evaluation on press. Flint Group offers to assist printers, who are interested in determining their specific savings potential, with this cost savings calculator tool.
“We are convinced that potential customers who try the NEW nyloflex® ACE Digital plates will be impressed with the high quality of the plate, with its longevity on press, and the efficiencies, which it affords, we’re challenging them to convince themselves,” commented Eberhard Huter, Vice President Sales Flint Group Flexographic Products.
In a product promotion featuring the NEW nyloflex® ACE Digital printing plates, Flint Group is offering a free trial case of plates to qualified printers. Interested printers may visit the Flint Group website at www.flintgrp.com/en/ACE_NEW.php to request a free sample of plates and assistance with the cost savings calculator tool.