DuPont's new generation of photosensitive resin flexo

Based on the recipes for Celli’s highly acclaimed NOW media, DuPont recently developed a new plate. The new plate retains the many advantages of NOW, such as anti-UV ink, anti-ozone and high printability, while adopting the latest technology to improve the printing surface of the plate. This new plate is named NOWs.
In contrast to the images on the surface of the conventional plate and the new plate, the surface of the NOWs has a large number of pits of unequal size, while the surface of the conventional and multilayer plates are much smoother. This structure based on the surface of the plate effectively solves the following problems: Effectively increasing the amount of ink transferred between the line and the solid portion. While increasing the amount of ink transferred, it also ensures the reproduction of fine text and lines. It is often difficult for a traditional plate to take both mesh and field parts into account, and the field part of the new NOWs is much better than the traditional NOW.
It is noteworthy that some of the early multi-layered versions, although with high ink transfer, were at the expense of reduced hardness, resulting in excessive deformation of small text and lines. NOWs small depressions on the surface of the plate, which are numerous but evenly distributed. This design solves the problem of increasing the amount of ink transferred and the uniformity of ink color. In addition, it also improves the printing stability of the media, reduces the surface plate viscosity, and reduces the chance of plate blocking and erasing time.

Source: "Global Box Industry"