Pre-press Services (Rotogravure Cylinder And Flexographic Plate)

Prepress is the art of ensuring the printability and repeatability of your packaging graphics. It’s all the pre-production work necessary to go from graphics on a computer screen to plates and cylinders on a 30-inch wide Flexo press or 48-inch rotogravure press printing at 200 meter per minute to the finished package sitting on a shelf. And it’s about making sure the graphics on that package look exactly the same, whether it is printed today, tomorrow, or a year from now.

In essence, the work we do in prepress eliminates printing problems by design.

As part of our prepress workflow, we will:

• Optimize your graphics files for our HD flexo presses and rotogravure presses.
• Prepare your artwork for HD printing.
• Numerically define process and spot color targets.
• Apply your graphics to the die line.
• Create proofs.
• Make flexographic plates using our advanced HD plate imagers.
• Make electo mechanically engraved cylinders.
• Define the print parameters necessary to achieve consistency on the production substrate.
• And much, much more.

Basically, you hand off your graphics to our team and we’ll do all the legwork necessary to systematically ensure that every time we print a package it appears exactly as you envision.