Two Solutions Solve Color Challenges
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Date17 Jul 2018
Over and over again, converters run into challenges with color. Yet while the challenges may seem unique to any one shop, a deeper knowledge, more expertise, and strong technical skills often yield solutions. And always, from color management to proofing... Read More →
Taking Your Foot off the Hose
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Date23 Feb 2018
With 30 years of label printing experience behind him, Dave Nosker understands a few key subtleties of running a printing company. The first is to have equally good relationships with customers and vendors alike. “It’s always a two-way street and... Read More →
New Technology Enhances Performance at Allen-Bailey Tag & Label
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Date01 Feb 2018
Some packaging printers and converters always push the envelope with the latest software and equipment while others take a more measured approach. Both strategies are sound and can yield positive results for printers and their customers. One company successfully taking... Read More →
The System for Making Top-Quality Plates
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Date10 Jan 2018
Down on the shop floors and pre-press rooms of most flexographic printers, a near-magical brew of physics, chemistry, and material science creates flexographic plates. Making the best possible plate has long been a challenge because all the pieces required came... Read More →
Resolution Matters!
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Date27 Dec 2017
The human eye and brain are hard-wired to be highly selective, right down to the elements of a label or package that influence purchase decisions. Some of those details are tied to image sharpness and clarity, so more resolution is... 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 →
Best Label Streamline Plate Production with the Flint nyloflex Xpress
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Date08 May 2017
A Fine-Tuned Label Printing Advantage “Having a single supplier for the plates and the processor helps fine-tune the system and is the best way to ensure plate quality,” says Bekki Harmon of Best Label in Union City, California. An expert... Read More →
Making the Leap—to Digital
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Date31 Oct 2016
You have a nice steady stream of business for your flexo presses. The jobs come in, the work goes out and the revenue is good. But a couple things worry you. First, is that you’re seeing run lengths get shorter... Read More →
How a Packaging Alliance Can Drive Customer Engagement
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Date22 Aug 2016
In the spring of 2016 Anderson & Vreeland formed an alliance with three partners to accomplish a single objective. From the very outset the goal was to use some of the latest technology to create and produce high quality labels... Read More →
Helping American Label & Tag Deliver Technically Demanding Labels
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Date16 Aug 2016
Survivor: Not all Labels are Created Equal Some labels have a really hard life, like the ones placed on the engine blocks of a major diesel engine manufacturer. After the labels are applied, the engine blocks are coated in a... Read More →