In the dry offset industry (indirect printing (wet in wet) of seamless containers like cans, cups, tubes and aerosol cans) SPGPrints is a market and technology leader in pre-press, especially for 2 piece beverage cans. To produce the printing plates either a direct laser engraving system or the computer to plate system can be used.

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Flexo plate printing forms are commonly used for packaging materials (foil, paper and labels, tissues). It can be imaged with a CTP system according to the CTP = LAM principle + UV exposure or with the direct laser engraving machines.

Rotary screen printing is commonly used with label and narrow web printing used in order to do opaque white, special effects, embellishments and refining. The RotaPlate® can be used for this application (plate material that is sealed to an in-the-round printing sleeve after exposing). For imaging and exposing different units can be used:

Intaglio is a printing form where the image is deeper as the non-printing part of the printing form. Intaglio printing forms can be imaged using a CTP-device or a DLE-system. Typically intaglio is used for security printing (banknotes, stams, cheques, passports etc.)

Letterpress is now only seldom used for printing narrow web and labels. Letterpress plates are thin plates that either have a foil back or metal back. As the metal back plates are the same plates that are used for dry offset printing, the terms letterpress and dry offset are often mixed up. Plates for letterpress can be either engraved with DLE or imaged using our CTP devices.