HD Letterpress

Product catalog summary

Introduction
HD Letterpress is a high-quality imaging solution developed by Esko for dry offset applications, particularly for conical and cylindrical packaging like beverage and aerosol cans. It addresses the unique challenges of achieving high print quality in "wet-on-wet" ink transfer processes.

Key Features and Benefits

Improved Image Quality: HD Letterpress offers significantly enhanced image and plate quality, making products stand out on shelves.
High Productivity: The system is up to six times faster than traditional CTP technologies, enhancing production efficiency.
Cost-Effectiveness: It is up to 50% more cost-effective compared to other CTP technologies.
Consistency and Repeatability: Ensures highly consistent plate production, maintaining quality across jobs.
Sustainability: Utilizes UV exposure technology, reducing reliance on traditional bank lights.
Reduced Ink Build-Up: Less ink accumulation leads to fewer print stops for plate cleaning.

Technological Advancements

Inline UV Exposure: The system includes a digital Inline UV head with UV LED diodes, ensuring consistent UV light exposure across the plate for high-quality and consistent imaging.
High Resolution Optics: Features 4000dpi imaging, providing three times more pixel data per printing dot than standard resolutions, resulting in precise images with higher detail sharpness and contrast.

Design Capabilities

Enables more elaborate designs with smooth highlights, clean text printing, and fine linework.
Facilitates outstanding print designs even with the "wet-on-wet" method, enhancing product appeal.

Conclusion
HD Letterpress by Esko is a cutting-edge solution for dry offset printing, offering superior image quality, productivity, and cost-effectiveness. It supports intricate designs and ensures consistent, high-quality output, making it a valuable tool for packaging decoration.

Catalog excerpts

High quality plates for dry offset applications More elaborate designs now possible Dry offset printing for conical/cylindrical pack- Esko has developed HD Letterpress; a superb aging, such as e.g. beverage and aerosol can imaging solution for HD Letterpress plates that decoration, brings some unique challenges when helps you overcome some typical challenges in it comes to achieving the highest print quality. The “wet-on-wet” ink transfer presents several distinct printing problems that must be properly addressed in prepress before your packaging can truly stand out on the shelf

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What is HD Letterpress? Esko's letterpress functionality for the CDI, with a magnetic drum for steel-back plate making, has been significantly Improved by adding the Inline UV exposure option. More elaborate designs Thanks to the new inline UV exposure and high resolution imaging, HD Letterpress overcomes some of the challenges for dry offset printing: smooth highlights, clean printing of text; and fine positive and negative linework are now possible. With HD Letterpress you can use outstanding print designs for your products even though using the "wet-on-wet" printing method - so your product...

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More elaborate designs now possible on cans Improved (smaller) highlights on plate and print Smooth gradients in the whole tonal scale Improvement of fine lines and negative text 100% guaranteed repeatability from image to image, from plate to plate © 2016 Esko. All rights reserved. All specifications are subject to alteration. Smaller text is easier to read

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