ANILOX ALPHA RANGE

B.E.L’s established Anilox Alpha Laser technology is the natural choice. High peak power and beam quality, pulse widths in the range of a few tens of nanoseconds and limited beam divergence. When laser engraving ceramics cells the Alpha Range produces smooth walls, flat bottom and near zero taper allowing a free flowing ink release from the Aniox Roller, for high quality flexo printing.

ANILOX ROLLERS AND SLEEVES LTT COMBINATION PRINTING

Anilox LTT laser technology has opened up a new perspective for flexography. It gives a predetermined volume from the Anilox Roller or Sleeve with double the number of cells to the printing plate. Therefore providing an even coat weight with superior control for combination printing.

The fundamental difference lies in the approach. The Anilox LTT rollers are laser engraved with a different cell structure than in conventional methods. Two different size cells are engraved adjacent to each other with different depth and surface technology. In this formation the ink transfer occurs unaided as a coating from the Anilox cells. The LTT laser engraving technique thereby makes use of the law of physics, which states that a large drop of ink has a different surface tension to a smaller adjacent drop. This is where the LTT strength lies. When the surface is covered evenly, the smaller ink droplets flow more easily into the larger ones. This process does not work as well when the droplets are the same size, as they are with the regular 60 degree cell structure.

B.E.L. C02 LASER TECHNOLOGY

C02 LASER ENGRAVING as the name suggests uses carbon dioxide, other gases, as in Helium (HE) and Nitrogen (N2) are combined to generate the laser light or beam. Specially made lenses to focus the beam, for the best engraving results are essential, to maintain the geometric consistency of BEL’s Laser Engraved Ceramic Anilox Rollers and Sleeves.

ALPHA/C02 ALPHA CO2                         1600 790   1500 590 1.94 3.0       1500 710   1200 470 2.25 3.5       1400 630   100 400 2.58 4.0       1300 550   900 350 2.90 4.5       1200 480   800 320 3.22 5.0       1000 400   700 280 3.54 5.5       800 320   600 240 3.87 6.0       750 300   500 200 4.19 6.5       700 280   400 160 4.51 7.0       650 260   375 150 4.84 7.5       600 240   350 140 5.16 8.0       550 220   325 130 5.80 9.0       500 200   300 120 6.45 10.0       450 180   280 110 7.00 11.0       400 160   260 102 7.74 12.0       375 150   250 100 9.03 14.0       350 140   240 95 9.67 15.0       325 130   220 88 10.32 16.0       300 120   200 80 11.61 18.0       275 110   190 75 12.90 20.0       250 100   180 70 15.48 24.0       225 90   165 65 18.06 28.0       175 70   125 50 23.22 36.0       150 60   100 40 25.80 40.0       130 52   80 32 28.38 44.0       110 45   70 28 29.67 46.0       100 40   60 24 32.25 50.0

These volumes can be achieved at 60, 45, and 30 degrees. All volumes shown are maximum volumes but if required can be reduced by up to 50% with no change in resolution.