Direct Laser Engraving Gravure

Unlike the plates the in round engraved sleeves do not have sewing marks in the print.

Direct laser engraving gravure.

Direct laser engraving has come a long way from its infancy and now delivers plate quality that. The direct laser engraving is one of the modern digital ways to get the digital image on the printing sleeve or print roller. With the direct laser gravure is the multi phase production of photopolymer plates substituted by laser engraving or lasering the surface. The elastomer sleeves have introduced the concept of seamless flexo printing which means perfect continuity on the repeat.

Direct laser engraving today and tomorrow with new systems and advanced materials primarily polymer we can now achieve print quality and efficiencies we did not think was possible in flexo. With dle we can create 1 dots at 250 lines per inch. The vital factor here is digital control of the optimum three dimensional printing form parameters. Direct laser engraving of elastomers makes the production of flexographic printing forms an entirely digital process.

Reducing printing form production to just two process steps laser engraving and cleaning significantly cuts the workload involved.