How to Make a Letterpress Photopolymer Plate

If you were ever curious about how letterpress plates are made, here is your chance to find out! Watch and listen to the step by step process as www.invitationsbyajalon.com creates yet another plate for the letterpress printing process. Instructional letterpress plate making process video.

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[superdevoful]

can you suggest some exposure times. We use cosmolight NEO170F plates. The 1st exposure is 1 minute and the exposure (with the film) is at 5. Plus we mix cascade (dishwasher stuff) with the tank water which leaves alot of slimey stuff. After the wash we let dry for 2 hours which seems kinda long to me. do we really need 2 hours?!! I'm new at this so i'm basically doing it the way they've always done it.

[ajalonprinting]

@superdevoful

we expose for 3 minutes. don't know what light source you are using. we wash for 3 minutes, no soap. we dry for 10 minutes at 140 degrees. we are using an anderson vreeland plate maker.

[twanisforever]

who sell those plates? can you use those plates for rubber stamps to.

for invitations looks nice.

[ajalonprinting]

We sell plates here. Please contact me at ajalon[at]ajalon[dot]com

[ajalonprinting]

Yes, there are individual plates and runs for each color.

[Ombad]

is the photopolymer plate is giving the deboss effect like the original letter??? how cm the thickness of photopolymer you used ? thanks

[superdevoful]

We use an orbital VIII A-3, very similar to the one in your video (except older and dirtier).

[ChowZeb]

what is this sophisticated technologies!?!?!

[chimpion10]

Pardon my ignorance but is this process done for each separate colour (e.g. CMYK)?

I am learning how to get my designs from the computer

through a rip to the process expressed in this fine video.

Please show me more, I love it!