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plate is an important part of the pad printing process. The following
items must meet high standards in order to achieve an excellent print
quality. |
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| TOSH
imports 2 different types of steel plates according to various
requirements such
as, print quality, number
of impressions, price and ease of changeover. |
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Thick
steel plates 10 mm
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These
are used when high quality and long printing runs are required. This type of
plate will last for more than 1 million impressions. TOSH plates are
manufactured using a special
high quality steel to resist oxidation. All plates
are lapped 2 sides to a very fine finish to obtain a high quality print and
longer blade life. They are hardened to 61-63 Hrc.
The molecular structure of the TOSH plates
allow an extremely fine and uniform finish.
This is necessary to be able to accurately check the
depth of etch during the photoengraving phase, which is a requisite for image
quality during the printing process.
These plates are photoengraved in our laboratory by TOSH,
using precision instruments
to guaranty a correct depth of etch.
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Thin
steel plates 0.5 mm
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type of plate will last for 100-200.000 impressions, and briges the gap between
the
traditional
thick steel plate (10mm) and the photopolymer plates.
It is generally used as an alternative to the thick
steel plates (10mm) when shorter runs and a lower price is required. However,
the manufacturing process is similar to that of the photopolymer plates, which
enables a customer to produce them in house in just minutes,
with
no experience necessary. Elport-Import has all of the equipment
to make the manufacturing
process fast, easy and repetitive. TOSH thin
steel plates have a thickness of 0.5mm and
are
supplied ready for exposing with a photoresist coating
on both sides, protected by a black plastic sheet.
The
plates are manufactured from a special steel to
provide excellent mechanical features
with a hardness of 53 - 55 Hrc. The high quality
photoresist allows accurate photoengraving of regular
of screened images. |
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Both steel plate
10mm and thin steel plate are always available in stock in hundreds of
different standard sizes.
Special
sizes available upon request, in short time.
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