Plate Mounting

Cleaning flexo plates and flexo sleeves is part of your daily routine? – Perfect!

Just make sure you let the cleaning liquid dry out for 5 Minutes before you mount anything to the cushion tape. Or even better – clean the sleeves right after demounting. That way solvents have a chance to evaporate from all those tiny scratches.

You got a good feeling for mounting? – Great!

Adhesive nerds always say “no pressure no bonding”. The harder and consistent you press the tape on the sleeve, the less chance it will have from detaching during press run or lifting off the sleeve when you try to re-use the tape.

Automatic pressure rollers can do the job for you – otherwise simple rubber blades are a good option.

Trying out another mounting tape sounds like trouble?

When it comes to the performance of our mounting tapes we focus clearly on the print result and easy handling.

Making sure it prints well is one thing, but getting used to different bonding characteristics, smell or even the new feel to it – is another. We want mounting teams to be happy using our tape. So we listen.

So far we haven’t seen a plate mounting tape being so easy to use that it did not come with technical instructions. But as soon as those instructions become standard process, it works.

Yes – Some flexo printing plates allow surface patterning or surface screening. This way the plate carries more ink in the solid areas.

Using surface screening technology for flexo plates enables many printers to only work with one flexo plate mounting tape only. In our case the INMOUNT 70/70H is the perfect match. The hardness of the cushion foam will support consistent tone values in the high lights and at the same time sufficient ink transferred in the solid areas with no pinholes.

457mm is the most common size. But we have log rolls in 1370mm and can slit down to any size needed. The less cut-off waste the better. For example: 685mm or any other size that fits into 1370mm total.

– Absolutely. Just the price may change according to the cut-off waste being leftover. But we will help you find a solution to minimize that waste.