As the countdown to 2012 drupa begins, participants throughout the flexographic packaging industry are anticipating new technologies and processes that will become available in the near future. When
DuPont introduced the DuPont™ Cyrel® Digital Imager (CDI), the first Cyrel® digital printing plate, and a fully digital prepress workflow at 1995 drupa , it could be argued that this was the single most important innovation in the flexographic process since the introduction of the first Cyrel® photopolymer printing plate in 1974. Just like gravure and offset lithography, flexography could now move away from film-based prepress workflows and implement a distributed...
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DuPont Develops New Digital Plate System
October 16, 2009
From pP inBox
WILMINGTON, Del.—DuPont Packaging Graphics announced development of the Cyrel® XD Hybrid Digital Plate System that allows flexographic platemakers to produce a hybrid digital dot using their existing digital workflows.