SPGPrints offers digital Pre-press systems for imaging plates, screens and sleeves. These bring enormous performance improvements in manufacturing processes for labels and numerous industrial printing applications, including wallcovering and pad printing.
Based on both direct laser engraving and CTP technology with accompanying processing software, these systems offer a simplified method of imaging flexo, rotary screen, dry-offset and letterpress printing formes.
The result is higher and repeatable quality, reduced manual input and improved sustainability.
Direct Laser
Engraving systems provide fully digital single-step imaging: the plate, rotary
screen or sleeve is engraved and, after a short rinse, is ready for the press.
A CO2 laser burns away the non-image area of the printing forme,
which can be polymer, elastomer or lacquer used for rotary screens.
The engraving is controlled by SPGPrints’ proprietary 3D Active RIP software, which also allows three-dimensional dot-shaping to prevent over-impression of smaller elements.
Let us advise youLaser Exposing systems, such as the variLEX, offer a two-step imaging process: a black mask is burned away by laser diodes, and the underlying material is exposed. The plate is washed and dried, then prepared for press. Suited for plates and flat screen meshes, variLEX comes with SPGPrints’ unique software solutions, including a database-driven on-the-fly RIP, enabling the use of all common industry graphics files.
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