Manufacturing Excellence – the Seprinto & Partners Way

As part of a series of webinars from the World Banknote Summit, Jacques Lang presented for Seprinto & Partners (S&P) three examples of how they have helped banknote printers optimise their production, reducing their consumables and waste.

New printing plate technology

The first example was an elastomer printing plate, called LaserLine Secure, created for four banknote printing process – litho, intaglio (direct and indirectly printed), letterpress and varnishing. These plates operate up to 120°C, are water resistant and have a long lifespan. They print up to 10,160 dots per inch (dpi), creating fine lines and text, solids, and halftones on the same plates.

An example was presented based on the savings possible from a 2 million sheet intaglio print run based on a traditional plate lasting for 150,000 impressions and a LaserLine Secure plate lasting for 1.3 million impressions. Fewer plates, fewer changeovers and fewer sheets extracted for quality inspection were estimated to save €13,100 for one shablon.