prepress: the digital strategy for the 2 pc
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Filmless Prepress: The Digital Strategy for the 2‐pc Can IndustryPatrick [email protected]+43 664 505 46 19
• Different designs• Quality• Plate making technologies• Advantages and disadvantages• The future pre‐press strategy• Film
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• Brand ownersdemanding higher quality and launching more promotional designs
• Competing packaging formats likePET, carton, glass, …
Industry under pressure from ...
Photograph
: Stork Prin
ts Austria
Photograph
: Stork Prin
ts Austria
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The end‐consumer loves photorealistic reproduction
Photograph
: Stork Prin
ts Austria
Photograph
: Stork Prin
ts Austria
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Is this attracting the end‐consumer?
Photograph: Stork Prints Austria Photograph: Stork Prints Austria
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What is influencing the quality?
File preparation
Rubber blanket
Ink‐system
Plate making technology
Printing plate brand
DecoratorProduction speed
Substrate
Base coating
Resolution
Screening
No. of colours
Line count
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• CTFComputer To Film or conventional / analogue
• CTPComputer To Plate or digital / LAM´s
• DLEDirect Laser Engraving
Different plate making technologies
CTF and CTP are both UV‐techniques, which work according to the same principle.DLE is a direct system that does not use UV.
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UV‐Techniques
Both UV‐techniques work with a monomer plate. Certain elements are being blocked from UV‐light (either by a film or by a mask) and therefore do not polymerize.
The monomer that is not blocked, receives UV‐light. This UV‐light turns the monomer into a polymer.
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UV‐Techniques
The polymerization process needs to be continued until every exposed element has received so much UV that it is polymerized till the floor of the plate.
After this, the remaining monomer is washed away with water. (this is also the reason for the longer exposing; if a polymer element did not reach the floor, it will be washed away together with the monomer)
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CTF Computer to film
CTP Computer to plate
DLE Direct Laser Engraving
Available techniques compared
CTF + CTP DLE
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Label Quality
Reproducibility
Consumable price
Flexibility
Initial Investment
Advantages and Disadvantages
CTF CTP DLE
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low mid high
• € 200 million revenue company• 15 worldwide operating companies• 1300 employees worldwide• Sound financial position
Who is spgprints?
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Our portfolio
Direct Laser Engraving (DLE)Highest Quality for centralised studio´s or independent canmakerComputer To Plate (CTP)Integrated device for digital plate production at the plant
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