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About Us
All about Chesnut Engineering and it’s promotion of the gravure process.
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Sales
How to purchase Chesnut products and key employee listings.
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Request Literature
Submit request for brochures on our press lines.
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What’s New
New products and Chesnut news. Used presses available.
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Chesnut offers complementary cost studies
for individual applications. Please email us and we will prepare a cost study for your specific application. sales@chesnuteng.com |
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COST COMPARISON
GRAVURE VERSUS HIGH QUALITY TONE FLEXO
Given: Comparison is based upon
16" wide press printing tone quality work with 18" circumference cylinders. The following cost estimates are used in the calculations:
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GRAVURE
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High
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Low
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Cost of finished image on a gravure base excluding artwork
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$550.00
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$450.00
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Cost of new aluminum sleeve type base if not re-using an existing base
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$175.00
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$130.00
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Additional costs for future runs*
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$ 0.00
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$ 0.00
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* At some point 500,000 to 1,500,000 impressions, gravure cylinders
will need re-chroming at an approximate cost of $50.00.
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FLEXO
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High
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Low
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Cost of photopolymer flexo plate - tone quality 16” X 18
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.52/sq.in. $150.00
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.35/sq.in. $100.00
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Cost of back up plate
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$155.00
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$100.00
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Cost of sticky back foam mounting tape
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.20/sq.in. $ 57.60
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.15/sq.in. $ 43.00
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Off-line plate mounting:
overhead cost of $40.00/hour @ 7 minutes per plate
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$ 4.70
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$ 4.70
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Other factors:
With tone quality flexo work it is common that plates
will only be used once and will be re-made for successive runs.
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