The REVO Digital Flexo Revolution: One Year Later

After the successful launches of REVO’s Digital Flexo Revolution in Europe (June 2014) and the United States (September 2014), the project team of experts from Adare, Apex International, AVT, DuPont, Esko, Flint, Nuova GIDUE and UPM Raflatac gathered together on April 23 for the eighth REVO meeting. This time DuPont’s headquarters in Neu-Isenburg was the stage of the Labelexpo Europe kick-off meeting.

One year after the launch, the REVO Team has shown flexo printers how to compete against digital printing by digitalizing the flexo process and achieving true seven color separation. The REVO Team managed to create an absolute stable transfer from ink-to-plate and from ink-to-substrate, a crucial parameter for fixed palette printing. According to Daragh Whelan, Adare’s technical director, using REVO technology for almost 12 months, “REVO Technology uses LM UV flexo inks, digital automation “from pre-press to printing process” and extended color gamut, that allows the achievement of repeatable and predictable PMS shades without changing anilox and inks. The most important benefits of REVO technology are the repeatability and predictability of the printing results, short set-up times, less waste, total graphic flexibility to reproduce unlimited colors on the same job and fast change-overs that do not need any manual intervention from the operator.”

And, there is more. REVO will show its value to mid-web flexible packaging printers, an increasing new audience at Labelexpo Europe, where the REVO Plug&Play concept will be adjusted to printing low migration UV inks onto flexible substrates.

Source: Nuova GIDUE.