The Flexcel NX Print Suite – now also incorporated at its production site in Delhi – adds Miraclon’s UV Choice Printing for UV-printed narrow-web applications and PureFlexo Printing for wide-web flexible packaging to Flexone’s capabilities. 

Both solutions employ Miraclon’s patented multi-form surface patterning technology and, according to Vimal Paliwal, director, Flexone Graphics, “they continue our strategy of providing our customers with the unique, differentiated offerings necessary to stay ahead in today’s ever-changing market.”

After successful careers in graphic design, Vimal and his brother Deepak, director, Flexone Graphics, moved into pre-press, initially providing offset pre-press services from its Delhi facility. 

The company expanded into flexo pre-press in 2017, installing a Flexcel NX Wide 4260 System. After the Ahmedabad site opened in 2023, the company this year installed its second Flexcel NX Wide 4260 System to serve the demanding, quality-conscious narrow and wide web markets in the west of the country.

Deepak Paliwal said choosing the Flexcel NX System and Flexcel NX Print Suite for Ahmedabad was “a straightforward decision. The fact is, Flexcel NX Technology is the preferred choice for wide- and narrow-web printing, and a ‘must have’ if you want to stay competitive in a demanding market.”

Vimal Paliwal added: “Our more discerning customers will specify Flexcel NX Plates for their work, because they recognise the on-press efficiency and quality advantages it has over LAMS plates. At the pre-press stage, Flexcel NX technology is 20-25% more productive because imaging is faster and high-quality jobs featuring vignettes and halftones, which test LAMS plates, are much simpler to render successfully. On the press, customers’ operators tell us Flexcel NX plates come to colour faster and produce more predictable results.”

Deepak Paliwal said. “The decision to move into flexo has proved a good move, as more and more brands are transitioning from offset to flexo. It used to be that only the larger brands were doing this, but now even smaller regional brands are switching to flexo for high-quality products with added on-shelf impact.”

Together, UV Choice Printing and PureFlexo Printing are tailored to significantly enhance Flexone Graphics’ capabilities on, respectively, UV flexo printed narrow web and wide web flexible packaging applications.

On a wide range of substrates, including foils, and coated and uncoated labels, UV Choice Printing optimises UV ink transfer and increases ink density by up to 15%. This eliminates troubleshooting quality issues on press and delivers better reproduction of solids, fine lines, crisp barcodes and text at lower ink volumes. It also simplifies and decreases set-up times by up to 20%.

Designed for wide-web solvent ink on film applications, PureFlexo Printing enables Flexcel NX System users to produce high-quality print within a wider operating window on-press. It does so by controlling unwanted ink spread — at the heart of many common flexo print problems — maximising press efficiency, repeatability and overall performance, and contributing to cleaner print, stable colour and a better bottom line for wide web flexible producers.