nyloflex® FAC 550

The ideal plate for fine print quality on standard to high quality corrugated packaging

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Product Overview

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  • Superior printing quality with sharper images, more open intermediate depths, finer highlight dots and less dot gain, i.e. larger range of tonal values therefore improved contrast
  • Increased productivity and data transfer without loss of quality due to digital workflow
  • Consistency in quality when repeating plate processing
  • Cost-effective and more environmentally friendly in processing, as no film is required

Benefits

  • Copes with all requirements – starting from print on rough and uneven substrates to pressure sensitive and soft paper substrates
  • Outstanding with challenging and multi-colour designs
  • Very good ink transfer with excellent area coverage and high solid density
  • Perfect adaption to corrugated board structure that reduces the washboard effect
  • Easy and safe processing due to a wide exposure latitude and colour change
  • Very good intermediate depths
  • Less plate cleaning due to special surface properties
  • Extremely robust and durable material
  • High print run stability
  • Less mechanical wear
  • Low swelling characteristic
  • High resistance to ozone
  • Excellent storage capability

Suitable equipment

The nyloflex® FAC can be processed with nyloflex® processing equipment and all similar devices. The nyloflex® FAC Digital can be used with all laser systems suitable for imaging flexo printing plates.

Printing inks

Suitable for all water based and alcohol based printing inks (ethyl acetate content preferably below 15%, ketone content preferably below 5%).

Washout solvents

Especially good results are achieved with nylosolv® washout solvents. nylosolv® can be distilled and reused.

Processing information

A detailed description of the individual platemaking steps, as well as detailed information about processing and storing can be found in the nyloflex® User Guide.

High quality standard

XSYS printing plates are produced at Willstätt production site, which is certified according to international standards for quality management (DIN EN ISO 9001:2015), environmental management (DIN EN ISO14001:2015) and energy management (DIN EN ISO 50001:2018).

Specifications

Base material
polyester foil
Color of raw plate
dark blue-violet with black LAMS layer
Total thickness (mm) (inch)
5.50 (0.217")
Hardness acc. to DIN 53505
32
Plate hardness (Shore A)
31
Recommended relief depth (mm)
2.0 – 3.0
Tonal range (%)
3 – 95
At screen ruling (l/cm)
32
Fine line width (down to μm)
300
Isolated dot diameter (down to μm)
750
Back exposure (s)
80 – 200
Main exposure (min)
8 – 20
Washout speed (mm/min)
50 – 90
Drying time at 60°C / 140°F (h)
4.0
Post exposure UV-A (min)
10
Light finishing UV-C (min)
8 – 12

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