Advance Printing

[srdarekar]

What is 8 / 10 color flexo printing? How it works? How is it different from 4-color offset printing?

[Margo]

http://graphics.tech.uh.edu/MatProcesses/Flexography.htmlis a link that I found on the internet, which will give you more than enough info on Flexography!

Basically, Flexography is run on a web-style press and the image on the plate is raised. The image is transferred directly from the plate to the material that you are printing on, whereas, an offset press transfers the image from a "blanket".

Offset is by far higher quality... Flexography is often used by big publishing companies that produce book, newspapers, etc. It is also good for packaging I guess?! If you have time to look at that link it may tell you more... hope this helps ;~)

[srdarekar]

Thanx for that nice link. It's really informative

[mikel]

Flexo is also used for corregated (pizza boxes, etc). The trap can be very loose depending on the substrate.

Mike
www.independentcolor.com (http://www.independentcolor.com)