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03-04-17
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Next Generation Flexo Plate Making: Ready Now.

Esko (www.esko.com) is keeping its promises to bring flexo platemaking to new levels of quality, consistency and to dramatically simplify the platemaking operation. First customers confirm excellent performance and exceptional print results.

Market trends drive change
As Esko’s Vice President Hardware, Thomas Klein, explained, “Flexo average run lengths are getting shorter, and the industry needs ways to produce those shorter runs faster and more effectively. A considerable part of the solution consists of rethinking flexo platemaking, so far a complex and highly manual process often involving up to five different hardware devices and six process steps. Integration of process steps and more automation -- and thus standardization -- improves quality, consistency and ease of use, and enables customers to more efficiently manage the digital flexo platemaking workflow.”

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