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With the proper tools you can bring the platemaking process in-house streamlining your operations saving you time and money. Printing plates can be made using either a laser engraving machine or by using an exposure unit. For in-house platemaking you will need: Artwork in a high resolution vector graphic format
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- Offset Plates
- Gravure Plates
- Flexographic Plates
- Digital Platemaking
- CTP Offset Plates
- Base Substrates
- Emulsion Types
- Exposure
- Plate Debris
Typically, printing plates are attached to a cylinder in the press. Ink is applied to the plate’s image area and transferred directly to the paper or to an intermediary cylinder and then to the paper. The printing plates used depends on the type of press, the printing method, and quantity of the print run. A plate is prepared for each color used, o...
Analog plates for offset lithography are manufactured with a surface coating of photosensitive material. The plates are contacted with an image on film and exposed to ultra-violet light in order to activate the photosensitive coating.
 The plates work on the principle that oil and water do not mix. An offset press utilizes a fountain solution to ...
Gravure was actually the first printing process to use computer-to-plate technology. Electromechanical engraving techniques, which reproduce the digital image onto the gravure cylinder, have been in use for a number of years. Digital engraving can produce much finer detail than conventional methods.
Rubber Plate
The traditional flexo plate is made from rubber and looks like a giant rubber stamp. The rubber plate is mounted on a press cylinder where ink passes over the raised image areas to produce a printed image. In flexographic computer-to-plate systems, lasers do imaging directly onto rubber plate substrates. The resulting plate has a relief surface comprised of raised dots of various sizes and spacing. Ink is applied to the raised surface, which is then printed onto substrates such as paper, tiss...
Letterpress
A plate for the letterpress process is referred to as a relief plate. With a relief plate, the image area is slightly raised above the rest of the plate. It is a direct printing method which means that the image is applied to the substrate directly from the inked plate. Letterpress plates do not require any dampening during the printing process because only the raised image areas of the plates receive ink and the non-image areas remain clean. The letterpress method is used for some newspaper...
Digital platemaking, commonly called Computer-to-Plate, is a method of imaging a printing plate directly without the use of film. A plate being produced digitally via CTP Information that has been stored digitally is imaged directly onto the plate with the use of laser beams. The plating process is performed off the press or it can be accomplished ...
Plates for computer-to-plate technology can be classified in several ways. They are often described by the base substrate of the plate, emulsion type, exposure effect, exposure spectrum, exposure power, and/or the property of creating debris on the plate during imaging. 1. Base Substrate:the material used to construct the plate, such as metal, poly...
There are three types of substrates used as a base for most digital plates: metal, polyester, and paper.
The plate emulsion is the material that is coated onto the base substrate, which reacts to the wavelength of light emitted by the CTP imaging laser to produce an image on the plate (either a positive or negative image). The coating on a silver halide/diffusion plate is made of photosensitive compounds that are similar to the compounds in photograph...
Exposure Spectrum
The exposure spectrum describes the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum used for imaging CTP plates, such as infrared for thermal plates, visible light for light sensitive plates, and ultraviolet for UV-sensitive plates. Three of the most popular technologies for CTP imaging are thermal lasers (infrared), violet lasers (visible light), and DPSS Ultraviolet lasers.
Exposure Power
Plate coatings can be described as either “slow emulsion”, which require large quantities of energy for proper exposure, or “fast emulsion”, which require much less energy for exposure.
When certain types of CTP plates are imaged, material is removed as a result of the imaging process and debris is created on the surface of the plate. There are other types of CTP plates, in which no material is removed from the plate and no debris is formed. There are three categories under which CTP plates can be classified with debris formation ...
Engraving. Engraving is an intaglio printmaking process in which lines are cut into a metal plate in order to hold the ink. In engraving, the plate can be made of copper or zinc. The metal plate is first polished to remove all scratches and imperfections from the surface so that only the intentional lines will be printed.
The different flexographic plate making process includes thermal, water washed, solvent washed and laser engraved. To look briefly into the pros and cons of ...
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Direct engraving is the only platemaking process that crafts each dot on the plate in a three-dimensional way, allowing us to take the highlight dot below the surface. With the highlight dot on a different plane than the solid, we can precisely control dot gain, making offset-like vignettes to 0% possible.
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engraving, technique of making prints from metal plates into which a design has been incised with a cutting tool called a burin. Modern examples are almost invariably made from copperplates, and, hence, the process is also called copperplate engraving. Another term for the process, line engraving, derives from the fact that this technique ...
