GCM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anilox, Direct Process, Flexography
22 Apr 2016
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Printing processes letterpress, flexography, gravure and screen. All traditional printing requires: somewhere to store the ink, somewhere to mount the image carrier (plate, some way to get the ink from the storage area to the image carrier and then to the substrate. No water required ink only because of the raised image area. The plate is what is mounted to the platen (platen just holds the plate: the platen stays stationary and is compressed to paper to create the image on the paper. Raised image area (like a rubber stamp) Direct process (goes directly from the plate to the substrate) Used in label printing, packaging printing (continuous pattern) All flexographic presses are webfed not sheetfed. Image engraved into the printing plate (rotogravure cylinder) this is called intaglio printing. Used for food packaging, wallpaper, wrapping paper. Making a plate for a gravure plate is very expensive (1 plate can cost upwards of )
