Polymerised flexographic print plates - are moved slower through drying than washing with increasing support from below

摘要

To produce polymerised flexographic printing plates, as they are dried with the image side upwards after washing out they are moved at a slower speed than during washing. The plate packing density is increased so that they are increasingly supported from below. The plates are washed out with their image sides downwards, and then inverted and held at the same orientation, and passed to intermediate storage during drying and further treatment on a first-in-first-out principle. USE/ADVANTAGE - The method is for the prodn. of polymerised flexographic printing plates. The technique gives a high throughput, with high quality plates.