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Gravure gets easier

(Magazine)

April 30, 1996, Though gravure wasn't for you? Think again. With innovations in equipment and technique, costs are coming down, and the process is becoming accessible Though gravure wasn't for you? Think again. With innovations ...

Doctor blades are the right Rx for gravure

(Magazine)

September 30, 1995, A new doctor blade design, offering spring load tension and high contact angle, reportedly makes the quality printing afforded by gravure even better.The A new doctor blade design, offering spring load ...

Sun Chemical White Paper: Color Management

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

March 27, 2025, ... artificial colors and preservatives, for example— may mean new substrates or pigments. Switching a printing process, from offset to gravure, or flexo to digital, changes the game. New materials and technologies ...

FPA Announces the 2025 Flexible Packaging Achievement Award Winners

(News | New Products)

March 08, 2025, ... compostable films, and packaging incorporating post-consumer recycled (PCR) content.” Commenting on printing innovations, Lyons states, “We saw outstanding examples of rotogravure, digital printing, ...

Sun Chemical to Showcase Latest Innovations at European Coatings Show 2025

(News | New Products)

February 24, 2025, ... flexibility and adhesion on a variety of substrates, from wood and plastic coatings to flexo and gravure laminating inks for packaging films. HYDRAN: This line of innovative, water-based polyurethane ...

Applying Barriers to Flexible

(Bag Pouch)

January 29, 2025, ... and papers. Reverse gravure is a suitable applicator method of choice in that it provides an extremely homogenous coating without pinholes, which is essential for barrier applications. Reverse gravure ...

Siegwerk introduces NC-free toolbox for the design of high-performing and recyclable flexible packaging solutions

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2025, ... with Siegwerk’s proven NC-free ink portfolio and includes solutions for lamination as well as surface applications in gravure and flexo printing. The toolbox is designed to enable customers and brand owners ...

BST North America: Advancing Web Guiding Technology Globally

(Coating/Laminating)

January 14, 2025, ... efficiency. Common applications include: Flexo, gravure, digital, and web offset printing Slitters-rewinders Laminators Coaters These systems help businesses achieve seamless operations, ...

ARC Announces 2025 Schedule of Activities

(News | New Products)

January 05, 2025, ... Handling:
Clarence Klassen, P.E. Web Slitting Technology:
Dave Rumson
 Winding: Machines, Mechanics and Measurements:
 David Roisum Solution Preparation and
Mixing: Dr. Kenneth
McCarthy
 Gravure ...

Overcoming Common Web Handling Mistakes in Print Production

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

December 18, 2024, ... in flexographic press designs and printing plate technologies have provided the means for flexo to compete with offset and gravure printing methods. As the industry moves toward wider format presses ...

Darryl Herbel Joins Flexo Wash as Western Territory Manager

(News | New Products)

November 20, 2024, ... Wash has been helping customers print better. Their products will extend the life of anilox rolls and sleeves, gravure cylinders, flexo plates, flexo plate sleeves, press parts and rotary screens, while ...

Domino Customers Celebrate Best-in-Class at TLMI Awards Dinner

(News | New Products)

October 16, 2024, ... celebrate outstanding printing and converting achievements in the North American Label and Packaging Industry, recognizing all print processes including digital, flexography, gravure, offset, rotary screen, ...

Hybrid Software Announces ‘Hybrid Fusion’ Customer Conference to Shape the Future of Labels and Packaging

(News | New Products)

October 02, 2024, ... flexo, offset, gravure, digital, and hybrid printing. The Fusion event will showcase Hybrid Software’s innovative advancements in PDF editing, enterprise and cloud workflows, color and artwork management, ...

Converter Requirements Toward Inks and Printability

(Bag Pouch)

September 22, 2024, ... and consumable suppliers pull out all the stops to make flexographic, gravure and other ink systems as versatile as possible, the fact remains that everyone prints and converts under different conditions, ...

Mundet Inc. Celebrates 95th Anniversary as Printing Industry Leader

(News | New Products)

September 15, 2024, ... of innovation and its gravure printing is a reliable, high-quality method where graphic excellence and production volume are paramount. The company was most recently recognized at the 2022 Golden Cylinder ...

GMerix Expands Toll Coating Services with ETI Converting’s Cohesio 40” Coater

(Upcoming Conference News)

September 04, 2024, ... coating units—gravure and Mayer rod—that offer precise control over coat weights. Additionally, the coater includes a 60-foot, four-zone fully electric oven, capable of processing various water-based adhesives ...

Expansion of On-Site Service in the U.S. and Canada

(News | New Products)

June 14, 2024, ... professional in the setup of Flexographic, Rotogravure and Coating equipment. Having previous career at Jagenberg, where he worked on paper converting equipment. Followed by Windmoller and Holscher Group, ...

Obtaining Barriers When Coating and Printing Flexible Materials

(Bag Pouch)

June 09, 2024, ... decorative sheen that they provide. Package print converters sometimes print reels of pre-metallized materials such as polypropylene (PP) as a single ply on flexographic or gravure presses. But there ...

ARC Elects Officers, Directors

(News | New Products)

May 29, 2024, ... operations and plant management, new product development and graphic design management. Since 2006, he has been an active member of the Gravure Association of the Americas (GAA), now the Gravure Committee ...

Addressing Bio-film/Compostables and Plastic Film Processing Challenges

(Bag Pouch)

March 17, 2024, ... sealants and coatings. OPP films that have the ability to be convertible on both sides can be printed primarily by flexo, gravure or conceivably by a hybrid arrangement, laminated or metallized to produce ...