Our Flexographic division: Plastotype, was one of the first plate manufacturers to introduce photopolymer printing plates successfully for commercial applications.

Today, we offer you one of the widest choices of photopolymer printing plates from a single source. These include plates from leading suppliers, such as Flint Group Printing Plates.

Throughout, our objective is to provide you with the best possible plate for your particular application, no matter how technically or commercially challenging that may be.

Our range of photopolymer plates is backed by fast delivery, anywhere in the UK, and an unrivalled level of technical support, designed to help you guarantee exceptional quality, consistency and reliability to your customers.

Flint Group Printing Plates have an excellent reputation throughout the flexographic industry for giving you high quality results every time.

Flint Group Printing Plates’ unique Technology Centre is now open to all our customers. The technology and training facilities will allow us to work with you, to improve your press operators’ technical knowledge by giving them practical experience, while allowing them to carry out tests on actual production jobs to prove the efficiency and performance of Flint Group products.

Flint Group - nyloflex® (conventional & digital)

Flint Group Printing Plates offers you an extensive range of polymer printing plates within their nyloflex® system.

To further enhance the quality standards achievable in flexography Flint regularly develop new improved recipes of photopolymer plates to meet with the latest market developments, such as new printing substrates and higher printing speeds.

Each nyloflex® printing plate is versatile and hence can be used in many areas, although they also have a recommended specialised application.

Flint Group - nyloprint® (conventional & digital)

Whether for packaging or forgery-proof markings for high security documents, it is necessary to use tailor-made solutions that offer you the highest possible print quality. nyloprint® printing plates provide you with every opportunity. As varied as the main printing technologies and substrates are today, as comprehensive the nyloprint® product range is to meet all your necessary requirements.

Whether printing plates on foil, steel or aluminium base, whether letterpress or pad printing plates, whether for conventional or digital plate processing, whether for flat or on the round, smooth or texturred surfaces, nyloprint® provides spot-on performance.

Plastolon Water Washable Photopolymer Plates

Plastolon is used as a moulding plate replacing zinc or magnesium for making rubber stereo's and hand stamps.

The latest generation of water washable photopolymer plates, introduced to help you produce consistent, high quality results with minimal environmental damage.

Plastolon photopolymer plates provide you with superior ink transfer, image reproduction and printing life. Perhaps as importantly, they are easy to process and washout using tap water and, unlike competing technology, do not leave you with a residue that has to be filtered before disposal.

Environmentally friendly and water-soluble plate guaranteeing simple processing without requirements of aggressive chemical etchants.

Superior heat resistance ensuring ease of application for moulding processes.

Applications include:

• Self-adhesive labels.
• Envelopes.
• Flexible packaging.
• Paper packaging .

Press Fingerprinting (UK Customers)

At Pomeroy Plastotype we offer a Press Fingerprinting service to all of our existing customers regardless of their consumable spends as well as our Trade Repro House customers.

The process involves the customer printing a set of Fingerprinting plates from a pre designed test form. From the printing result we measure for density, contrast and dot gain in order to give the studio the press characteristics to make the corrections to the repro for the printing presses dot gain.

Once this is established a further test form can be printed to check that the corrections are okay. The results of this can then be scanned into a piece of software known as "Star Proof", once this has happened, a Ripped file from plate making can be sent via Star Proof to an Epson Inkjet printer to produce a press predictable dot proof that now matches the press.

An important point to note is that Fingerprint will only be successful if the press parameters on the day are adhered to for printed jobs, i.e. use the same Plates, Tape, and Ink and ensure the Anilox's are clean and well maintained; all of these areas can be dealt with by products in the Pomeroy Plastotype range and we also carry out pre-press analysis to ensure optimum plate making conditions are adhered to.