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Setting Standards
With a continuous improvement mindset, Contact Originators is the first flexo plate making company in the UK to have gained ESKO HD accreditation in the corrugated print industry, as well as the first company worldwide to be accredited to the prestigious Flint Group Flexo Expert programme.
Innovation is at the core of our business. For example, here is the latest launch of our jointly developed automated digital shim printing technology, PrintHQ, for corrugated printers.
High Quality Post Print
Plate Technologies.
Contact Originators works with a range of plate materials suppliers optimising the performance of HQPP technology. Contact are regularly used as an industry Beta test site for next generation HQPP plates to test the latest ‘in the plate’ technologies and the latest plate manufacturing equipment and techniques.
Contact offers the full range of Nyloflex® range of photopolymer flexographic plates suitable for printing on film, foil, coated paper, corrugate and self-adhesive substrates.
Contact offers the full range of Nyloflex® range of photopolymer flexographic plates suitable for printing on film, foil, coated paper, corrugate and self-adhesive substrates. Nyloflex® printing plates provide the highest, most consistent quality: fine screens and vignettes and smooth solids on all commonly used substrates. Nyloflex significantly improves ink laydown, high solid ink densities and precise reproduction of the finest highlight details.
“We at Flint Group are proud to be the main supplier of flexo printing plates to Contact Originators. We’ve worked closely together for more than two decades on the evolving challenges and opportunities in the flexo market. Contact’s innovative and versatile approach makes them the perfect early test partner for our new plate, equipment and service developments. An example being Flint’s unique Flexo Expert program, which is designed to improve efficiency, quality and consistency in the Plate Department. Contact was the first of Flint’s global network of partners to achieve this status and has recently be reaccredited for the next two years. Contact shares Flint’s key principle of ‘Better, Faster and Easier to use’.”
MacDermid Graphics Solutions is a worldwide leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of a full range of flexo packaging plate solutions including analog and digital sheet, as well as the award-winning LUX® platemaking process and LAVA™ thermal process.
“Contact Originator’s focus on innovation is clearly aligned with MacDermid’s philosophy. Their openness, honesty and understanding of development hurdles and timing were critical to our success in commercialising a recent new photopolymer sheet product. One of the key factors Contact Originators brought to the table was closeness to the printers, derived from Contact’s approach to their customers and development of strong relationships. Contact Originator’s commitment to innovation and their customers are obvious and that resonates with us. It a pleasure to work with them.”
DuPont Advanced Printing offers a broad portfolio of flexographic plates developed specifically for the corrugated market. So, whether you are looking for a corrugated plate designed for high quality post- print, or you need a flat top dot workflow solution that minimises fluting on even the most challenging types of corrugated boards, we have a product to meet your needs.
“When working with Contact Originators we know our plates are processed to a consistently high standard as they adhere to strict quality control procedures. Coupled with their high level of expertise, market knowledge, and creativity, Contact Originators continuously push the boundaries of our products and our company to obtain the optimum performance and highest quality of print possible for the customer.
“This innovative and collaborative approach helps drive constant advancement in today’s challenging workplace to achieve results you never thought possible in this market sector.”
Contact Originators is proud to be one of the first beta testing companies for the innovative XPS Crystal, which optimally combines UV main and back exposure.
Unlike UV frames, using light bulbs with fluctuating output, the XPS Crystal uses UV LEDs which do not need warm-up time and always emit consistent radiation.
A simultaneous and optimally controlled UV main and back exposure produces highly consistent digital flexo plates – for every digital flexo plate type on every job.
The XPS Crystal exposing unit won the prestigious FTA award, 2017 Intertech Technology Award and the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2017.
“Contact Originators is a valued R&D partner working to validate and drive our latest Flexo technologies.”