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Upgrade your pressroom productivity

tesa Efficiency Experts help to uncover hidden inefficiencies and optimize your flexo print performance 

Fine margins and high volumes make uptime critical.​ tesa Efficiency Experts help to uncover the hidden causes of press downtime, optimize pressroom productivity, and deliver a comprehensive range of tesa® plate mounting tapes and splicing solutions. 

                              Download our eBook to unlock your pressroom efficiency

Meet our Efficiency Experts

With a network of global flexo specialists and local-to-local support, we provide a world of experience, insight, and knowledge. Meet some of the team leading the way in pressroom productivity.

Introducing a tailored assortment for flexographic print

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01tesa® Softprint plate mounting tapes

An expert upgrade for your print efficiency, consistency, and output quality.

Offering a modular assortment designed to match a wide range of printing requirements, our tesa® Softprint portfolio combines different plate-side and sleeve-side adhesives, foam hardness levels, and liners.

Makes plate mounting quicker and easier

  • Reliable product performance
  • Faster setup and changeovers
  • More uptime

Boosts pressroom efficiency

  • Fewer press interruptions from plate edge lift
  • Tackling pinholing and bounce
  • Minimizes misregistration

Removes print irregularity

  • Less variability between operators/shifts
  • Greater predictability
  • Consistent print quality
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02tesa® EasySplice splicing tapes

An expert upgrade for your process efficiency, reliability, and stability.​

Designed to revolutionize your flying splice applications, tesa® EasySplice brings your pressroom the following benefits:

Maximum efficiency

  • “All-weather” adhesive remains largely unaffected by temperature and humidity variations
  • 30% more tack than the market standard for a reliable contact
  • Strong bonding, even on critical surfaces

Greater reliability and durability

  • 24-month shelf life
  • Lower downtime costs due to higher reliability

Built for every setup

  • Available for all paper grades and reel stands
  • Even applicable for difficult-to-splice substrates at full machine speed

Download our eBook to learn more about pressroom efficiency

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Watch our expert troubleshooting video guides

If you're experiencing plate edge lift, bouncing, air bubbles, ghosting, or pinholing, watch our expert troubleshooting guides for practical tips, advice, and solutions to help you maximize press uptime.

We’re part of a global community of flexo expertise

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DFTA - Flexographic Technical Association Germany

For decades, DFTA has successfully promoted flexographic printing. The association focuses on technically and practice-oriented work for flexographic and packaging printing.

We provide a neutral and independent platform for knowledge transfer and well-founded opinion-forming on relevant industry topics.
Our members are at the center of everything we do and actively contribute their expertise.

With a focused and up-to-date portfolio of services, we are particularly attractive to companies in the printing, supplier, and prepress sectors.

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