Hyderbad-based commercial and packaging
printer Pragati Pack India Pvt Ltd has strengthened its commitment to flexo
quality by installing a Perfect Proofer.
A table-top automated wet-proofing device, the Perferct Proofer enables
lab technicians to pre-flight ink formulations under actual conditions of the
flexo press. This makes fingerprinting obsolete and provides precise flexo
colour predictability.
The Perfect Proofer is compatible for UV,
water- or solvent-based inks and can print onto any substrate. It features the
same photopolymer plate, tape materials, anilox type and cell-count, drying
system and substrate as the target press. Also, impression pressure and nip
distances are adjustable by increments of microns. It can therefore offer a
predictable result to within a fraction of 1ΔE, at the desired dot-gain. As a
result, printers save material waste and several minutes set-up time on every
printing job, potentially boosting press productivity by hundreds of hours per
year.
With a 140,000 sq ft packaging print factory
in Hyderbad, Pragati is one of India’s largest suppliers of labels, folding
cartons and rigid cartons, offering a one-stop-shop for product decoration,
from design to distribution. The company also has an 80,000ft² commercial
printing operation. This year, Pragati has gained international recognition for
its dedication to flexo print quality, winning three Finat label awards. The
company has won the SAPPI International Printer of the Year awards three times
since 2006.
The Perfect Proofer is distributed through
Print Proof Solutions, based in Brummen, the Netherlands. It has a global
network of service representatives with agents across six continents and is
represented in India by International Caliber, an agency with a strong and
reliable presence in the Indian market.
Located in Brummen, the Netherlands, Print
Proof Solutions helps flexo printers with lowering cost and saving time with
press proofing their inks. The company is the European distributor for the
Perfect Proofer, an automated proofing system for flexo inks with a proven
track record and an installed base of 100 systems worldwide. The Perfect
Proofer is manufactured by Integrity Engineering, Inc. (USA).
