tesa® Softprint 53416 FE

Plate mounting tape for photopolymer plates in flexographic printing

Product Features
  • Foam Properties: Low thickness tolerance. Long lasting, constant recovery characteristics.
  • Adhesive Properties: Low tack surface characteristics. Secure plate bonding with excellent resistance to edge lifting. Excellent tape bonding towards cylinder/sleeve side. Solvent resistance.
  • Additional Properties: Compensating product design for demanding sleeve/cylinder surfaces. Structured PP liner. Color indicates foam hardness.

Product description

Double-sided foam tape.
The medium foam makes this the ideal compromise in printing solids, line work and screen with only one foam hardness.

Product Features

  • Foam Properties: Low thickness tolerance. Long lasting, constant recovery characteristics.
  • Adhesive Properties: Low tack surface characteristics. Secure plate bonding with excellent resistance to edge lifting. Excellent tape bonding towards cylinder/sleeve side. Solvent resistance.
  • Additional Properties: Compensating product design for demanding sleeve/cylinder surfaces. Structured PP liner. Color indicates foam hardness.

Application Fields

Mounting of 1.14 mm (0.45‘‘) and 1.70 mm (0.067‘‘) flexographic printing plates onto steel / aluminum / PU cylinders and sleeves.

Product Construction

Type of liner PP
Backing material PE foam with film lamination
Type of adhesive tackified acrylic
Total thickness 430 µm

Properties / Performance Values

Color of logo purple
Hardness medium
Thickness category 380
tesa® products prove their impressive quality day in, day out in demanding conditions and are regularly subjected to strict controls. All technical information and data above mentioned are provided to the best of our knowledge on the basis of our practical experience. They shall be considered as average values and are not appropriate for a specification. Therefore tesa SE can make no warranties, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The user is responsible for determining whether the tesa® product is fit for a particular purpose and suitable for the user’s method of application. If you are in any doubt, our technical staff will be glad to support you.

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