RotaPlate® screen material
Stronger, Sharper, Superior.
The perfectly fitting mesh for all rotary screen printing presses – RotaPlate is an excellent alternative for users of woven screen material. It’s strong, stable and offers a long working life. The result is excellent print performance at each stage of production. Get more printed metres out of your mesh. RotaPlate screens are available in a wide range of mesh counts to meet all application requirements.
Rotary screen technology
For users of woven screen material there is a superior alternative. Switch to SPGPrints’ RotaPlate® screen material and greatly increase product quality as well as improving your bottom line. It offers superior perfor-mance at each stage of production, from Pre-press right through to washing down.
RotaPlate® screen material: print faster, at higher quality, while saving money
It decreases your operational costs and therefore increases your competitiveness, yet requires no additional investment in your Pre-press equipment and presses. You will get more meters out of your mesh with RotaPlate®.
Benefits
Long lifetime
Unlike all other screen materials, RotaPlate® is a solid nickel sheet with a honeycomb grid of round mesh openings and a non-woven mesh. It has the same, unique, hexa- gonal structure as SPGPrints’ RotaMesh®, a material renowned for its long lifetime.
Extremely sturdy
Any experienced screen maker will recognise immediately that RotaPlate® is an extremely sturdy and stable material that is built to withstand manual handling, thus resulting in less remakes. It is compatible with all standard screen making equipment.
Less downtime
RotaPlate® is very resistant to wrinkling and, unlike woven materials, virtually never breaks or gets damaged during press set-up or printing. Small particles on the web or web splices will not be a worry anymore. For short or long runs RotaPlate® reduces downtime and saves you money.
No back-up screen required
In addition, as the screens last so long and are extremely unlikely to break during the printing process, there is no need to produce a back-up for longer jobs. This cuts your screen costs even further.
Re-use for repeat orders
With production runs often shorter as customers increasingly ask for just-in-time delivery, RotaPlate® gives you the option to re-use the same screen for repeat orders. The extremely stable hexagonal mesh can withstand being washed several times, which obviously saves you the time and money that would be required to make a new screen each time.
Sharper
RotaPlate® features a patented process developed by SPGPrints that builds up the mesh material, so that one side of the mesh has a totally different texture and profile than the other. The squeegee side of RotaPlate® is very smooth, giving very low squeegee wear. The printing side, however, has very sharp edges, which leads to sharper printing and crystal-clear results for your customer.
Superior
Application support
We offer a full service package ranging from installation to application support and training. Our team of experts provides in-depth advice on specific production related matters on site. SPGPrints also has a Technology Center where customers can test new products and methods in an authentic production environment. Allin all, RotaPlate® raises your competitiveness and protects your margins. Every step of the way: your production’s on a roll with RotaPlate®.
RotaPlate® Pre-press process
The RotaPlate® Pre-press process gives you the best of both worlds: flexible and easy in-house engraving of rotary screens and significant cost savings using traditional or digital workflows. The complete program allows you to tailor a Pre-press system that is ideally suited to your requirements.
Greater accuracy and repeatability
SPGPrints has developed specialized RotaPlate® Pre-press equipment for every relevant step in the engraving process, ensuring optimal accuracy and repeatability.
Significant cost savings
The RotaPlate® Pre-press system is extremely affordable, which makes it ideally suited to the engraving of rotary screen plates. Preparing a RotaPlate® screen will not take you more than twenty minutes.
Titanium — digital exposing
The Titanium eliminates all costs related to film work in the conventional workflow and thus offers substantial cost and time saving opportunities. Laser exposure ensures excellent reproducibility, easy file data archiving and less manual work.
Iridium - digital engraving
Imaging using Iridium offers the most cost and time savings. Iridium eliminates a substantial part of the screen making process. A magnetic drum ensures easy fixation of the RotaPlate printing form to allow digital engraving. Followed by sealing and applying both stencil rings, the screen is ready to print.
