Aug 2021

New Cosmolight product for

Cloth Tag Printing

TOYOBO
Photo-functional materials dept.
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 New Toyobo CosmolightTM plate : NTE series

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 PRINTING TRIAL
 Plate ; NTE170T
 Printed Material: Nylon Taffeta
 Ink : Perfectos Fabrifast
 Printing Machine: Shanghai Huanye Machinery PT 2/1
 Tape: Lohman 0.2mm / Tesa 6610 0.1mm
 Long run printing trial:
 200m roll
 40rolls /day

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 Key factors of Cosmolight NTE plate
1. High Productivity

2. Excellent Reproduction

3. Less swelling to printing ink (Less bolding)

4. High durability

5. Pressure adjustment during printing is less required

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 1. High productivity
CosmolightTM is water-washable plate, improving plate productivity.

(min)

2hr
Solvent plate
30mins ~

Cosmolight® 42 min

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180

Back Exposure Main Exposure Wash out Dry Post Exposure Detack
 2. Reproduction
NTE plate performs excellent printing quality from the beginning to the end of job
1st Roll 66th Roll 80th Roll

NTE170T

1st Roll 37th Roll

Company A

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 3. Less swellings to ink (Less bolding)

・Less bolding after printing than competitor plate

① 1st Roll 37th Roll 40th Roll

NTE series 1.09 1.11 +1.8%
Company A 1.15 1.27 +104%

② 1st Roll 37th Roll 40th Roll ①

NTE series 1.02 1.08 +5.8% ③
Company A 1.06 1.15 +8.4% ②

③ 1st Roll 37th Roll 40th Roll

NTE series 1.29 1.33 +3.1%
Company A 2.01 2.49 +23.9%

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 4. Durability

The plate durability is dramatically improved.

＊ The printing test was carried out for 2 days and ceased at 80th rolls.
１st Roll 66th Roll 80th Roll

* 1 roll = 200m.

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 5. Less Pressure adjustment during printing

Less thickness changes achieves stable printing result

without adjusting printing pressure.
12

10
Thickness changing rate [%]

Company A
8

6
Conventional

4
NTE

0
0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28

Dipping duration [hr]

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