Keeping Pace. With Change.
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Date31 May 2017
Change is everywhere you look. It’s part of the time we live in. For much of Anderson & Vreeland’s 56-year history advances in our industry occurred gradually. There was time to consider, accept, and adapt to emerging technologies and new... Read More →
Great Packaging From a Great Workflow
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Date22 Feb 2017
Every flexo shop owner knows that in the eyes of most customers you’re only as good as the job you just produced. So every job has to be as close to perfect as possible. You need all the help you... Read More →
Leverage a System for Top-Quality Plates
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Date28 Nov 2016
Making thermal plates has long been a process that merged technologies and consumables from multiple suppliers. And because all the parts generally adhered to a relatively narrow set of characteristics and rules of materials science, plate processing systems usually turned... 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 →
Chasing the Three Foot Effect: Episode Two
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Date12 Jul 2016
Getting the Color Right In part one of Chasing the Three Foot Effect, Church Street Brewing Company decided on digital printing as the most cost-effective means of producing short run labels for the launch of “Special Hell”, a new craft... Read More →
You Bought a Spectrophotometer…But Can You Really Use It?
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Date27 Jun 2016
So a year or so back you may have invested in an X-Rite eXact Spectrophotometer. Or maybe you have an older device and are wondering what the latest technology has to offer. Either way, you made an investment to solve... Read More →
Chasing the Three-Foot Effect
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Date22 Jun 2016
The instant of shopper-to-product engagement, known as the “three-foot effect,” is that moment in time when the colors and images of a label leap from store shelves to a customer’s eyes. A hand reaches for the container, the label is... Read More →
Collaboration and Visibility Drive a Shift to Automation
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Date24 May 2016
“We were making it work, but it wasn’t working for us, begins Kathy Brazzale, creative design manager at United Engravers in Schaumburg, Illinois. “We had a system for managing intake and production of our jobs but it lacked visibility between... Read More →
‘Ah-ha’ Moments with Doctor Blades and End Seals
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Date07 Mar 2016
The unsung heroes of flexo printing are anything but commodity items The converter’s anilox rolls were wearing quickly, requiring press operators to search the printing plant to find rolls of sufficient quality to be able to run jobs for key... Read More →