In our new technology center dedicated to sustainability, we unite pioneering minds from across the industry to collaborate & innovate flexography. Our goal is to push the boundaries of flexographic excellence using advanced solutions such as water-based printing on plastic with Optima² press and flexo IPU technology.
July 2, 2025Date
Carmignano di Brenta, Padova, ItalyLocation: Show on map
Automation in Sustainable Flexo Printing, SOMAPetr Blaško
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Petr Blaško
Peter Blasko, SOMA Marketing Director, has 20 years’ experience in flexography working on different positions in marketing & sales within SOMA, EU based producer of CI flexo presses. With a degree in mechanical engineering, he is now responsible for global marketing strategy and product development. He can be reached at blasko@soma-eng.com.
Anticipated Green Deal Regulations for Packaging in EU, Sun ChemicalName Surname
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The New 5.0 Regulation for Italy, Expert SpeakerName Surname
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Panel Discussion on Industry Challenges, Industry ExpertsName Surname
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Live Demos
Automated Changeover
Witness SOMA’s cutting-edge automation in action during the Automated Changeover demo. In just minutes, we perform a full job changeover – from plate mounting to press make-ready – ensuring precision, minimal downtime & waste, and flawless print quality.
Intelligent Printing Unit
We will print water based ink on plastic in combination with matt coating in single pass operation using flexo IPU – Intelligent Printing Unit to achieve maximum efficiency.
Advanced Bounce Control
With the Advanced Bounce Control technology, the Optima2 prints even difficult jobs smoothly without signs of vibration or bouncing, ensuring consistent, high-quality results.
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Bouncing designs
Flexo is very promissing technology, but has one weakness. Certain designs may generate vibrations due to rotational printing process of printed and non-printed area. Therefore we developed Advanced Bounce Control system, which guarantees minimal bounces at top speeds and perfect shape of the dot.
Short runs efficiency
Jobs are getting shorter and shorter in all areas of packaging due to many reasons such a packaging personification or extended number of flavours. We developed Optima especially for quick job change-overs featuring several unique systems such as IRIS, Falcon II or Ink Cartridge.
Expanded gamut printing
Some say that the future of flexo printing is Expanded Gamut Printing (7 color fixed pallete printing, without Pantone colors). Optima, with its modern inking system and very stable dot shape due to Advanced Bounce Control is ideal for EGP. You may than benefit of:
no wash ups and therfore savings on time, ink and plate
coprinting of several designs at the same time
Environmental printing
The future of our kids is important to us. We designed OPTIMA to handle all enviroment-friendly technologies such as water based printing, paper or biodegradable materials printing, EGP or energy cured inks.
ULTRA Technology
UV or UV LED inks are broadly used mainly in label segment. For those who want to benefit from this technology in mid-web or wide-web segment, OPTIMA is ideal solution.
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