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The Path to Sustainable Growth

(News | New Products)

February 07, 2023, ... shelf life and reduce waste. Additionally, color management tools, such as ECG printing, reduce waste and press downtime, enabling full digital color management from design to press, enhancing productivity ...

How a Full Lineup of Coatings Can Transform Packaging

(Coating/Laminating)

February 07, 2023, ... packaging that will preserve color, fragrance, texture and appeal and keep it safe to consume. Many external factors negatively impact shelf life and freshness, from oxygen and ultraviolet light to moisture ...

ASTM International to Host April Packaging Workshop

(News | New Products)

February 07, 2023, ASTM International is hosting its Packaging Workshop April 19, 2023, at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, Colorado. ASTM International is hosting its Packaging Workshop April 19, 2023, at ...

Dinpe Chooses Vetaphone for Better Quality Extrusion

(News | New Products)

February 06, 2023, ... production facility that includes 8-color printing presses, fabricators, and laminators for high-quality work that is meets ISO 9001:2015 standards.  The end products are sold and marketed under the brand ...

Recycled and Recyclable: The Woven Plastic Bag of the Future

(Bag Pouch)

February 05, 2023, ... packaging without too many dispensable additives such as color or printing. Solutions to produce woven sacks and big bags with recycled content that meet the highest quality standards are already available ...

Rust to Tech: Part 5

(Converting Perspectives)

January 01, 2023, ... such as holes and imperfect print. Consider a flexographic 10-color, gearless press run at high speed with cutting-edge features like second pass in-register printing, automatic impression setting, automatic ...

The “5R” Framework

(Coating/Laminating)

December 11, 2022, ... printing processes by switching to a multi-purpose ink that can be used on different types of presses or even switch to extended color gamut printing to reduce waste. Washable ink technologies are game-changing, ...

Happy Birthday, Verner Eisby!

(News | New Products)

November 07, 2022, ... years after the Second World War saw the advent of plastic materials in packaging, and brand owners were keen to have their products displayed in bright colors on this new material.  This was especially ...

The “5R” Framework: An Approach Designed to Reduce Packaging Waste

(News | New Products)

September 20, 2022, ... reductions. Converters can redesign their printing processes by switching to a multi-purpose ink that can be used on different types of presses or even switch to extended color gamut printing to reduce ...

After a successful opening of The Flexo Xperience Center - MacDermid Graphics Solutions, SOMA and partners focus on addressing everyday flexographic printing issues

(Flexography)

September 06, 2022, ... the mission of moving flexo forward. Along with MacDermid and SOMA, industry partners involved in The FXC include: 3M, Apex, AV Flexologic, BST Group, CleanPlanet, ColorConsulting, CSW Inc, Daetwyler, ...

Quality Control Starts with Prepress

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

August 28, 2022, ... exceptional quality standards, starting with the first image. Cameras look at several critical areas of the package, such as registration, traps, process print, color, vignettes, reverse print and readability ...

Maxcess Vision Inspection: The Benefits of Proper Vision Inspection

(News | New Products)

July 10, 2022, ... they become critical. Systems include 100 percent print inspection, color monitoring and integrated workflow options. The importance of vision inspection in a converting application Often the process ...

Achieve Higher Returns Thanks to Defect Classification

(Surface Prep)

June 05, 2022, ... it a wide array of requirements when printing packaging, as generally valid quality criteria such as: achieving the exact specified colors reliably, repeatedly and constantly, even during follow-up ...

Epson Introduces Two New SurePress Digital Label Presses

(News | New Products)

May 31, 2022, ... label press, delivering improved automation. Additionally, as label converters look for ways to add additional color gamut to labels without increasing price, Epson is adding the SurePress L-6534VW with ...

Achieve Higher Returns Thanks to Defect Classification

(Surface Prep)

May 29, 2022, ... it a wide array of requirements when printing packaging, as generally valid quality criteria such as: achieving the exact specified colors reliably, repeatedly and constantly, even during follow-up ...

Compact Foilers Installs Latest Cold Foil Module at Philtone Litho

(News | New Products)

April 12, 2022, ... to a five-color Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106, offers Philtone a cost-effective means of meeting the growing demand for enhanced print work. The CF1000 PM module has been developed for cold foil and ...

The Importance of Roll Cleaning and Maintenance

(Surface Prep)

April 11, 2022, ... not delivering the right amount of ink to the label. That will impact colors. If press operators aren’t getting the right density of color, then that press is running bad labels or sitting idle while the ...

The Euro: 20 Years of Cashing in on Holograms

(Print)

March 20, 2022, ... go back to the first reports of color photocopiers being used to counterfeit banknotes, which came at Interpol’s 6th International Conference on Currency Counterfeiting (Madrid, 1977). The resolution, ...

Innovation in Sustainability - Sun Chemical Q&A

(Sustainability)

February 24, 2022, ... portfolio for existing and roadmaps for developing technology: Reuse, Reduce, Renew, Recycle and Redesign. These approaches are applicable across all of Sun Chemical’s business units, including inks, color ...

The Benefits of Proper Vision Inspection

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

February 10, 2022, ... can be retrofitted to any printing press, enabling operators to setup and run faster, as well as locate and analyze defects before they become critical. Systems include 100 percent print inspection, color ...