New from Sibress is the Flexo Control Universal, a portable analyser – ‘not much bigger than a computer mouse and amazingly easy to use’. It is designed for quality control of screen areas, individual printing dots, lines, and barcodes on finished flexo plates, imaged LAMS flexo plates, steel-backed letterpress plates, offset plates, and elastomer flexo plates.
The instrument measures AM screens from 23 to 85/cm on flexo and offset plates as well as FM screens with at least 20 micron dots. It is said to achieve less than ±0.5% repeatability in all modes.
In addition, the Flexo Control Universal measures the dots and coverage values of colour prints with AM, FM, or hybrid screens on paper, cartonboard and film. A newly developed algorithm carries out a precise analysis of the screen coverage values for overprint colours (blends) or critical colours such as yellow.
The instrument weighs ‘almost nothing’ and connects to a PC or notebook with a 2m USB cable. This allows areas in the middle of large plates or prints to be measured and analysed easily.
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