5 Facts About Flexography

1.) There are three different types of flexographic inks:

I.) Water Based

II.) Solvent Based

 III.) U.V. Based

2.) Flexographic inks are very similar to packaging gravure printing inks; fast drying, and formulated to lie on the surface of nonabsorbent substrates.

3.) Flexographic printing industries benefit in their capability to print with U.V. Curable ink. Printing with U.V. ink may not be an option for some printers due to the substrates being printed on.

4.) There are 4 rollers on a flexographic printer:
 I.) Ink Rollers
 II.) Meter Rollers
 III.) Plate Cylinder
IV.) Impression Cylinder

5.) Flexographic printing plates can be made by digital plate making, which is laser engraving through a scanned or computer generated image.

by Colleen