Toyobo Solar Plate Printing

Wide range of applications and characteristics of toyobo printight are shown in the site.

Toyobo solar plate printing. Solar plates toyobo polymer print plates. Human and environment friendly it enables you to print high quality and reduce total cost. Clean plate with methylated spirit. Toyobo has been leading the letterpress printing as the pioneer of water washable photo sensitive nylon printing plate printight.

Printmaking artists like dan welden have introduced it into. My biggest regret is that i cannot continue supplying you my friends and customers many of whom have been around for decades since i first developed the plates in 1970 71. For the settings i choose the epx800promic han german paper setting in the printer driver at 1440 dpi. Toyobo s photo sensitive printing plate.

Solar plates are easy to use with little experience of traditional printmaking processes. Can be developed in water shorter exposure times ability to reproduce fine detail from photographic or hand drawn positives once correctly exposed they are easy to ink and can produce large print runs with no degradation of the image. Process i followed so far. Toyobo printight solar plate km73 i got the first stochastic positive printed from the inkjet printer epson stylus pro 4800 at collage using wasatch rip program.

Bright sunlight or a uv bulb. Cover with tissue paper and blankets and feed through the press. Solar plates photopolymer plates toyobo km95r photopolymer 0 95 mm steel backing toyobo km152r photopolymer 1 52 mm steel backing toyobo kf95m photopolymer 0 95 mm transparent plastic backing these photopolymer plates are used in the commercial printing industrie for flexographie printing with a flexible forme on rough surfaces. Enviromentally sound photopolymer 0 73mm thick on steel plate.

Enviromentally sound photopolymer 0 73mm thick on steel plate. Lay the inked vaporjet plate on it and put the printing paper on top. A friendly competitor involved in the industrial printing world is looking into manufacturing the plates. We leads the market in water washable photo sensitive nylon printing plate uv flexo plate and ctp plate.

The ctp computer to plate technology is to be able to create higher and clear reproduction of screen dots an letters. The resulting plates reproduce fine. New size 1065x790mm please note we are unable to cut this plate delivery cost very high due to size please note. Images can be transferred from clear film such as acetate or true grain to the plate using a source of ultra violet light i e.

Once exposed solar plates are simply developed in water without the need of additional harmful chemicals. The plates i used for these prints are toyobo printight plate km73 s from intaglio printmaker in london. We do not accept photopolymer plate returns as conditions of storage and use after they have left us are beyond our control. Dry print by putting it between tissue paper and insert in blotting paper.