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Printight Photo-sensitive Printing Plate

Cosmolight THE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY WAY TO PROCESS FLEXO PLATES TOYOBO, the pioneer of Printight, a WATER-WASH letterpress plate, has commercialized the world's first water washable flexo plate, Cosmolight. TOYOBO's superior photopolymer technology produces a water-washable plate which is also durable to water-based ink, as well as solvent based and UV-inks. This revolutionary plate eliminates the need to use toxic, environmentally damaging washout solvents, and allows processing by "Water", one of our most abundant natural resources. Now, TOYOBO is introducing the new generation of Cosmolight NS to the flexo printing industry. NS brings a new quality to the label and tag market as well as flexible packaging, with benefits for your customer and benefits for you. Discover a fresh advantage with Cosmolight, the leading water-washable, environmentally friendly flexo plate. Sectional Structure Advantages Washes-out in plain tap water with a small amount of mild detergent. Eliminates the use of dangerous hydrocarbon and hazardous washout solvents. Plates are "press-ready"in an hour and "press down-time"is dramatically reduced. Print quality is excellent with both water-based and alcohol-based ink. High resolution and reproductivity provide sharp details. Excellent ozone resistance. Excellent ink transfer. Excellent resistance to co-solvent ink.(type NS). Excellent thickness tolerance allows kiss-imperssion settings. "A closed washout system" allows repeated use of the washout solution. Anti-static treatment on the plate enables dust-free handling.

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Water-Wash Plate

Printight Pioneer of water washable Photo-Sensitive Nylon Printing Plate TOYOBO has been leading the letterpress printing as the Pioneer of water washable photo-sensitive nylon printing plate PRINTIGHT?. Wide range of applications and characteristics of TOYOBO PRINTIGHT? are shown in this site. Please check application and find out an appropriate plate you need. Sectional Structure Characteristics Wash-out with water - TOYOBO PRINTIGHT makes it possible for customers of this system to use ordinary water for wash-out. Transparent and flexible plate - Transparent polyester film as a support material gives excellent dimensional stability and easy processability to printing machines. Steel base plates are also available. Accurate plate-thickness and long press life- TOYOBO PRINTIGHT has excellent plate-uniformity and long press life based upon the fact that nylon polymer is its main material. Slip Coat - It has a slip coat to obtain good contact between the plate and the negative film. You can use plain negative film. Please click here for more details

CTP Water-wash Plate
TOYOBO CTP-Products are the first water-wash CTP plate in the world. The CTP (Computer-to-Plate) technology enables digital images to be depicted through an IR laser head directly from the computer to the mask-layer. The mask layer acts as a substitute for the negative film. It is certain that Toyobo CTP-products are not only user-friendly but also environmentally better and less toxic, because it is not necessary to use any solvents.


Advantages

Excellent Print Quality - Higher and clearer reproduction of screen dots and letters

Water-wash - Solvent-free in the plate-making process, toxic free for the operator

Reduction in the Total Cost - Unnecessary to make film-negatives, Consistent plate quality due to simplification of pre-press process, Reduction in the personnel costs

Improvement of Productivity - Shorter plate-making time due to the simplification of pre-press process