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Flexography

Flexography is a high-speed printing technique, used for printing film.

A rotating rubber ink take-up roller, which is partially immersed in an ink reservoir, picks up the ink and transfers it onto a steel roll. Both the rubber roll and the steel roll have a surface without a profile and serve only for ink dosing. A rubber plate, attached to the plate roller, contains the printing designs in profile. The plate roller picks up the ink from the ink coated steel screen roll and transfers it onto the film, which is supported by the back up roll. The film finally cures in the drying oven.

Multi-color designs can be produced with several successive printing stations such as the one described below.

Flexographic printing
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