Plate making DuPont Cyrell

The short answer is: no. DuPont has a “FAST” system of making soft photopolymer flexographic plates. After exposure, the way they are processed is that they are heated to make the unexposed polymer in the non-image areas softer. Then the plate is rotated on a drum, which is in contact with a non-woven material (paper towel like material for want of a better term). The non-woven material absorbs, or blots, the soft unexposed polymer away from the plate. After several passes of the plate being exposed to the non-woven material, the plate has its relief image. What I believe you have found is a roll of this non-woven material.

DuPont and FAST are registered trademarks of DuPont.

Actually there was also a roll of the non woven material but what I may have access to is, I believe, the plate material. The promo is that the list is over $1,000. If it could be useful to someone here I could pick it up for very cheap. Also may still be some of the Non-woven material.

Has anyone ever tried to heat and rub off the unexposed areas manually w/o using their expensive machines?

The Dupont Cyrel Plate is a low relief plate for Crash imprinting, large type works but otherwise for greeting cards and stuff I doubt it, doesn’t matter how cheap.

Thanks. If anyone does want it for any reason, send me email don’t just respond here since I won’t monitor this anymore

Michael, the plate material does not come in rolls, it comes in sheets.

Typenut, this type of Cyrel is one of the types which are used for flexo plates which are chiefly used to print packaging, like plastic snack food bags, paper towel and toilet tisue wrapping, folding cartons, etc., etc.

It comes in various plate thicknesses, and you can get various amounts of relief with it. I agree with you that it wouldn’t work well for greeting cards and the like. I think it would be too soft for letterpress crash imprinting. For that, are you thinking of the old DuPont Dycril plate? That was a hard plate.

Geoffrey,
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