Flexographic Printing Machine

Flexographic Printing Machines produce high quality, finer and clear impressions on different substrates. These machines are popular because of the simple operation and easy adaptation for the use of water-based inks. Flexo printing is inexpensive and a simple form of printing method generally applied for package printing, moreover flexographic printer is good enough to produce excellent quality impression on several different materials. These flexo printing machines are popularly used for printing on materials including plastic, paper, foils, acetate films, this is done by use of rubber/plastic printing plates. Flexo printing machine has a high speed printing process and makes use of fast-drying inks. Such printing machine can print on a range of absorbent &  non-absorbent materials and can print in continuous patterns.

 

Types of Flexographic Printing Machine

Flexo printing machines are five in types, but all of them function identically, and they sport same meters & cylinders. The machines differ from application to application. It is not necessary that the printer for plastic packaging bag can be used for printing Corrugated Containers. So it is imperative to acquire information about the types of flexographic printing machine. That will facilitate the selection process. 

Flexographic Printing Process
Flexographic printing machinery is a spectacular blend of letterpress and rotogravure printing, employing relief plates made up of flexible rubber or photo-polymer plates. Flexographic printing press comprises four rollers such as ink roller, meter roller, plate cylinder, and impression cylinder. Ink roller passes the ink from ink pan to meter roller that measures the ink and moves it onto the plate cylinder, then the material passes between the plate cylinder and impression.   A substrate is fed into the machine from a roll and the image, printed is a result of the substrate being pulled through a series of printing units. Each printing unit is responsible for printing a single color.

 

Application of Flexographic Printing Machine
Flexography Printing Machine is being widely used by a large number of industries. Such machine is the most popular after offset printing, is used for printing a number of materials. Flexo printing machine can make use of different inks which are water based rather then oil based. Flexo printing can be done on various materials such as plastic, foil, acetate film, brown paper, and other materials used in packaging. These machines can print on products like corrugated boxes, retail &  shopping bags, food and hygiene bags and sacks, milk and beverage cartons, flexible plastics,self adhesive labels, disposable cups and containers, envelopes and wallpaper. Flexographic printing inks are usually of low viscosity, which results in fast drying. Machines with modern technology have speed of upto 600 meters per minute (2000 feet per minute) with 12-color central impression (CI).

 

Major application of Flexographic Machine are

 

Optional Features Of A Flex Printing Machine