Seikodo Co., Ltd. | Services | DDF™ (Digital Direct Flexography)

A supreme solution for a value added flexograpphic print industry and printable electronics industry.

Powerful support for flexo printing in the digital age, offering high-precision, high-definition, and ease of operability.

Our original DDF cliché family(CTSS/CTS/DLA) forms images directly onto plate materials on extremely round sleeves.

Compared to conventional methods, in which the plate is mounted on the sleeve, DDF offers superior characteristics in terms of productivity, operability, and printing reproduction.

At last! DDF achieves high-performance endless patterns, impossible with conventional flexography.

Improved productivity

• No need for mounting
	Saves time and labor, and even eliminates the need for a mounter, to save total costs.

• Reduces spoilage at the beginning of a print run
	As setting the sleeve is all the setup that is required, it is possible to achieve high-precision registration.

• High-speed printing
	The extremely round sleeve eliminates lift and stabilizes registration during printing.

Superior operability

• Easy to load / unload
	Because plates can be loaded/unloaded quickly and easily, DDF is suited to small-lot printing.

• Easy to store
	Because plates can be stored in sleeve units, they can easily be reused.

High performance

• Improved printing durability
	More durable than conventional endless plates.

• Fewer defects in the printing of outline letters and fine lines
• Low chance for dot-jump in highlights

• Virtually perfect registration

• Any printing substrate can be used
	Can print on nonwoven cloth, film or paper regardless of thickness.

• Achieves endless pattern printing (CTSS, DLA)

1. Sleeve

2. Pre-processing

3. Formation of polymer layer on sleeve

4. High-accuracy finish on surface

5. Imaging on the round

6. Final processes

·Primary exposure
·Washing
·Drying
·Post exposure

7. Finished product

Flexo round cliché formed endlessly on sleeves

Advantages

Creation of high-definition, endless patterns by CTP
Seamless plates reduce the load on printing plates
Stability in high-speed printing
Eliminates the job of mounting the plate on the sleeve

This technology produces round cliché by mounting an un-exposed digital plate around a sleeve.The whole process is proceeded in round shape.

Advantages

Eliminates work of mounting plate on sleeve
High registration due to elimination of mounting, and high definition by CTP
End processing with special seals


	Image forming machine	ESKO CDI
	Resolution	Max: 2800 dpi / Min.: 1400 dpi
	Plate sizes	Circumference: 240 mm - 1,320 mm, Width: 1,750 mm
	Material	Photopolymer resin
	Inks	Water-based, UV, alcohol, and glycol inks