Esko introduces HD Letterpress For Metal Cans & Plastic Tubes

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The new technology allows brands to print plastic and metal packaging for beverage or aerosol cans with a wider tonal range, along with a significant increase of detail and improved productivity.

Benefits include much improved image and plate quality, and provides high productivity and reliability throughout the entire production process

 

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The new technology allows brands to print plastic and metal packaging for beverage or aerosol cans with a wider tonal range, along with a significant increase of detail and improved productivity.

Benefits include much improved image and plate quality, and provides high productivity and reliability throughout the entire production process

In the article there is a claim of running "wet on wet" with the dry offset process. Wet on wet printing is not suitable to dry offset where there is a common blanket. The plate technology will not be able to get around this fundamental problem. Wet on wet is tried at times but if one looks closely at the print with magnification, trapping failure is seen often. One can not run CMYK process on a dry offset press for this reason. Marketing is stretching the facts a bit, as usual.