nyloflex® FAH 254 D

Versatile flexo plate suited for UV and water based inks

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Product Overview

  • Solvent Plate
  • Round Top Dot
  • Paper
  • Film
  • UV Ink
  • Digital
  • 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

  • Especially developed for high resolution label printing
  • Suitable for flexible packaging and folding cartons
  • Excellent resistance to UV inks
  • Also suitable for solvent and water based inks
  • High ozone resistance
  • Reliable processing and easy handling due to colour change during exposure
  • Brilliant image quality, wide tonal range for reproduction of fine image elements
  • Ideal for printing of fine, homogeneous vignettes
  • Optimum ink coverage in solid areas
  • Reverse elements remain open

Suitable equipment

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

Printing inks

Suitable for all UV inks as well as water based and solvent 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 storage 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 film
Color of raw plate
red
Total thickness (mm) (inch)
2.54 (0.100“)
Hardness acc. to DIN 53505
60
Plate hardness (Shore A)
65
Recommended relief depth (mm)
0.9 – 1.2
Tonal range (%)
2 – 98
At screen ruling (l/cm)
60
Fine line width (down to μm)
100
Isolated dot diameter (down to μm)
200
Back exposure (s)
30 – 120
Main exposure (min)
8 – 24
Washout speed (mm/min)
140 – 180
Drying time at 60°C / 140°F (h)
2.5
Post exposure UV-A (min)
10
Light finishing UV-C (min)
8 – 12

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Ideal for simple designs on rougher substrates combining solids and screens

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