Flexographic Printing Plates: Which Platemaking System is Right for You?
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Date07 Oct 2022
At some point, many printers will consider bringing the flexographic platemaking process in-house. At a certain volume, making your own flexographic printing plates can offer significant cost savings. Plus, in-house platemaking offers the ability to respond quickly and reproduce a... Read More →
Hold it Together Now: 3M Printing and Packaging Adhesives
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Date22 Sep 2022
With increasingly complex print jobs, shrinking lead times, and lingering supply chain issues, printing companies are challenged to get more out of their press room. Thankfully, tapes can be an affordable, straightforward way to optimize press performance. The 3M Industrial... Read More →
Why 3M Mounting Tape is the Best Choice for Your Plateroom
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Date22 Sep 2022
Flexographic printers know that choosing the right plate mounting tape can make all the difference on a print run. It’s the difference between efficiency and lost time. Between fast and slow changeovers. Between a passable print job and industry leading... Read More →
5 Mistakes Companies Make When Buying Flexographic Printing Equipment
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Date20 Jan 2022
The flexographic printing equipment that professional printers and converters choose for every step in their production flow directly impacts the overall success of their business. Choosing the right appliance streamlines the entire printing process, contributes largely to your ROI, and... Read More →
Advancing Flexo Education with STRIPE VR
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Date09 Mar 2021
Although our media consumption is now largely digital, print still plays an important role in our lives. If you haven’t noticed, we still rely on printed packaging to catch our eyes as we browse through both brick-and-mortar and eCommerce stores.... Read More →
Digitized, Tracked, and Up to Date
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Date15 Jan 2019
Change up your inventory with VMI Most flexo shops are managing inventories of supplies and materials pretty much the way they did back in the Last Century: manually. And it’s costing money every day. Meanwhile, customers are seeking faster turnarounds,... Read More →
Are You Ready to Lead?
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Date06 Dec 2017
Label and packaging production is a world of “we need-it-yesterday” deadlines and escalating demands for print quality. Yet, while newer flexo presses and plates have raised the bar on print quality, the manual prepress operations that once ensured on-time delivery... Read More →
The Best Tools Deliver the Best Results
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Date20 Nov 2017
Printing labels and packaging is a demanding business. Successful converters need to provide customers with innovative workflows that streamline the entire process. Within that workflow, color management should ensure every color is absolutely right, every time. Then, whether a job... Read More →
Who Ya Gonna Call?
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Date23 Aug 2017
Just when you think everything is going according to plan, something goes sideways. There you are with a deadline looming or a big job due to come in in a couple of weeks, when you realize some of the technology... Read More →
Catch Up on Your Flexo Reading This Summer
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Date31 Jul 2017
As we roll into summer and a hopefully slower schedule, we’re recapping the blogs we’ve run over the past few months, so you can easily find them if you missed them and re-read them when you have a few summer... Read More →