2012 Volume 85 Issue 4 Pages 164-171
In recent years, “Flexography” is coming to more attention because of a rising awareness of environmental issues. Flexographic printing process uses rubber or photopolymer plate which is flexible and resilient, and thanks to flexible printing plate, we can have quality printing results on rough surface substrates. Flexible printing plate, however, is one of the impediments to reproduce fine image, such as highlight dot, fine text, fine line and so on. In order to overcome such disadvantages and obtain higher printing results, a lot of innovations have been developed. “Flat Top Dot” technology is one of the latest evolutional printing plate making technologies in flexography and much attention is focused on it now. In this article, we describe what is “Flat Top Dot” technology and its several methods to form printing plates.
