Printing - The face of the product
The visual appeal of packaging depends largely on the design and colouration, the latter mainly created during the printing process. This makes printing one of the most vital steps in the whole production chain. And this is Böttcher’s home ground. Leading printing press manufacturers all over the world have relied on the quality and innovative power of Böttcher products for years, across the whole range of printing processes. Böttcher rollers and sleeves help printers get the most out of their presses in offset, gravure and fl exographic printing applications.
Every rubber or polyurethane covering comes from the same development laboratories as our washes, founts and other products. Our rubber compounds are produced in one of the most modern rubber mixing plants in Europe – highly automated and computercontrolled, so that you can rely on their consistently high quality. All production plants in the Böttcher Group are supplied with rubber from this central source, ensuring that our customers all over the world receive the same high quality, every time they place an order.
Highly specialized, demanding printing processes require equally sophisticated materials developed specifi cally for this purpose. And that is possible only with the depth of expertise and experience that comes from a commitment to the printing industry reaching back more than a hundred years.
Whether your business is digital proofing or prototyping or printing on offset, gravure or fl exographic presses, whether your inks and coatings dry conventionally or by UV-curing, are water- or solvent-based, transfer with our without electrostatic support systems, Böttcher offers you not only the right covering material, but also the appropriate cleaning and maintenance supplies as well as a broad range of printing blankets and coating plates.
And most importantly, all of these products are compatible with each other. In other words, you can concentrate on optimizing your production process and operating effi ciency and don’t need to worry about problems stemming from material incompatibility.
In no other fi eld of offset printing are spot colours and special inks as common as in packaging production. The resulting need for frequent colour changes, including a thorough cleaning of the ink train, often leads to disproportionate downtime and loss of production. This is where Böttcher’s newroller surface coatings come in: ProColora ink rollers and GoldenPearl vibrators prvent any ingress of ink components into the rollers and are much easier to clean than conventional roller coverings, signifi cantly reducing make-ready times. They also help you print saleable copy more rapidly, minimize start-up waste and help with conformance to ISO 12674.
