Flexo printing is a fast and cost effective process best suited to printing on thinner flexible substrates such as plastic bags vinyl labels on a roll food packaging etc.
Print on plastic sheet inkjet.
When the plastic sheet comes out of your printer with your material very carefully lift the sheet by its sides making sure not to touch the ink at all.
If you are using film sheets for inkjet printers make sure to insert the sheet so that the rough or sticky side faces the side for printing and the lined edge faces the inside of the printer paper feed.
To get the ink adapt for plastic substrates it mainly uses plastic resins such as polyamide synthetic solvents organic solvents and colorants to mix the plastic printing inks.
The ink for plastic printing is different from the ink for paper and the two cannot be mixed.
Although flexo printing can achieve better print quality than screen printing it is not capable of producing images in such high resolution as ink jet printing litho uv.
Print your image or text onto your plastic sheet.
Lay the sheet ink side up in a cool dry place for at least fifteen minutes to allow it to dry.
Insert a plastic sheet into the manual feed paper slot or insert one plastic sheet into the printer paper tray.