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Products: Offset Printing Plates

Base-Line offers a full line of offset printing plates:

Single & Two Sided Medium to Long Run Plates

Description
Negative working, subtractive, aqueous plate
Gauges
0.0055, 0.008, 0.012, 0.015
Surface
Electrochemically grained and/or anodized
Sizes
Standard sheet fed and specialty sizes available
Exposure
UGRA Scale – Solid 3-4
Set to a Solid 4-5 on a 21-step Stouffer Scale
Resolution
2- 98% at 150 Lines, 8-10 micron lines for 1-sided
2- 98% at 200 Lines, 6-8 micron lines for 2-sided
Processing
Aqueous, using Base-Line Subtractive Developer and Subtractive Finisher, or 2 in 1 Developer/Finisher
Run Length
1-sided medium to long run in excess of 250,000*
2-sided short to medium run in excess of 150,000*

Violet Photopolymer CtP Plate

Description
Negative working offset printing plate for CtP imaging
Gauges
0.008, 0.012
Surface
Electrochemically grained and anodized
Sizes
Standard sheet fed and web, specialty sizes available
Exposure
UGRA 1982 Scale – Solid 2-3
21 Step Wedge – Solid 3-4
Resolution
150 lpi or 175 lpi at 2400 or 2540 dpi with a rendering of 3%-97%.
Screen rulings up to 200 lpi and screen renderings of
3% -97% are obtainable
Processing
Base-Line Universal Violet Developer UVD and Subtractive Finisher
Run Length
1-sided medium to long run in excess of 250,000*

Legend™ News 80 and News 120 Offset Plates

Gauges
0.007, 0.008, 0.010, 0.012
Surface
Electrochemically grained and anodized
Sizes
All standard metro and community newspaper sizes
Exposure
Set to a Solid 4-5 on a 21-step Stouffer Scale
Processing
Base-Line News 80 Developer and Subtractive Finisher
or News 80 2 in 1
Interleafing
There is no interleafing on this product
Run Length
Up to 80,000 for the News 80 and up to 120,000 on News 120*

*Run lengths are subject to press conditions