NEW ! nyloflex® NExT

Flint Group Flexographic Products recently presented a new exposure technology nyloflex® NexT. Its high output UV technology is able to generate unique element shapes with precisely reproduced surfaces, commonly known as Flat Top Dots, providing all the benefits linked to this structure: increased tonal range along with an optimised surface texture to greatly improve ink lay down and solid ink density. All the processes currently being used today to produce a plate with a flat top profile are designed to prevent oxygen exchange ...
News by PANTONE® in 2010

The PANTONE PLUS SERIES for multimedia graphics, introduced in 2010, is an update an upgrade PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM, the global color communication standard across industries. The PLUS SERIES adds to flagship line 566 new solid colors, including PREMIUM METALLICS and NEONS, for a total of 2.152 color choices, a new chromatic arrangament of colors, a color locator index, color correction and lighting indicator tools, digital color libraries and other features that enhance creativity and facilitate production.
Flint Group Flexographic Products recently presented a new exposure technology nyloflex® NexT. Its high output UV technology is able to generate unique element shapes with precisely reproduced surfaces, commonly known as Flat Top Dots, providing all the benefits linked to this structure: increased tonal range along with an optimised surface texture to greatly improve ink lay down and solid ink density. All the processes currently being used today to produce a plate with a flat top profile are designed to prevent oxygen exchange between ambient air and photopolymerisable layer during the exposure step, either by blocking it at the plate surface with barrier films or by displacing the oxygen with inert gases. Compared to alternative systems, the main advantage of the new nyloflex® NExT exposure technology is that it does not involve the use of inert gases with all its risks and does not require additional expensive consumables. Furthermore there are no processing steps added to the standard digital plate workflow, such as film or negative film lamination. The nyloflex® NExT process can easily be integrated in the existing workflow of digital plates. The only change required with nyloflex® NExT process is the addition of an advanced high energy UV light source, which accelerates the polymerisation in the image areas. The new Flint Group UV technology is planed to be commercially available in 2011.









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