  "The time and money saving guide for the Flexographic printer." FlexoGuide is a free service of All Printing Resources, Inc. (APR). It is intended to keep our customers informed of new solution-oriented products, technical tips, saving opportunities, and APR services.  Flexo IAS Image Analysis System offers the most innovative and complete solution for image analysis - from film to photopolymer plate to print - without the limitations of other systems currently available. 3M "E-Series" Flexographic Mounting Tapes for Wide Web and Corrugated Plate Mounting to prevent air entrapment. Prepress Tech Tip Pressroom Tech Tip Flexo Expertise and Printing Diagnostics at your fingertips through Sinapse Graphics' IPSS - Integrated Process Support System This innovative diagnostic tool provides flexo production staffs with a structured and easy to use diagnostic aid to help them rapidly identify on-press problems, their causes and possible solutions. It is easily customizable to meet your specific process control or troubleshooting requirements. Added date for "How To Design and Implement Graphics for Flexography" This three day hands-on course is designed for anyone that wants to gain knowledge and experience required to design and implement prepress for the flexographic printing process or just improve the ability of jobs to run faster, cleaner and more profitably on a Flexo press. BASF nylosolv A, photopolymer platemaking washout solvent is an advanced solution for offering fast washout times and with low V.O.C. emissions and odors. Faster washout times result in less plate swelling and faster dry times.  Flexo IAS Image Analysis System 
The Flexo IAS is the ideal tool for productivity and quality improvement in flexographic printing. For the first time, quantitative, objective decisions can be made in every step of the flexographic process - from proof to film to plate to print - all using a single instrument, anytime, anywhere, on materials of any size, and at any random location. No limitations in regards to conventional or digital photopolymer plates. Design - the Flexo IAS's revolutionary design brings together modern CCD image capturing, advanced image processing, and innovative analysis software in a hand-held PDA device. Its built-in Pocket PC enables easy-to-use image viewing, quantitative analysis, reporting data logging, and direct communication with a PC. Capabilities - the Flexo IAS is a high resolution, analytical digital microscope that is a dot analysis that provides critical information on dot size, dot shape, dot gain, % dot, line screen, and screen angle. It also is a print quality analyzer that evaluates registration, line bleed, line density, edge sharpness, edge raggedness, resolution, optical density, tome reproduction, gray balance, color consistency, graininess, mottle, ghosting, slur, and many more. 3M "E-Series" Flexographic Mounting Tapes for Wide Web and Corrugated Plate Mounting 
3M "E-Series" are products manufactured with an exclusive liner to create micro-channels in the adhesive that can alleviate air entrapment issues when mounting plates. The crosshatched pattern creates a continuous and permanent network of channels that allow air to flow on both sides of the tape. Benefits include: Allowing the air to more easily escape from between the tape and sleeve/cylinder can greatly reduce time spent mounting plates. Quality can be improved by reducing the possibility of air bubbles that can cause print defects, especially in screens and highlights. 3m "E-Series" is currently available for wide web  Tech Tip #1 - Prepress - Shortcut for finding the lightest highlight and darkest shadow detail in an image using Adobe Photoshop 
If you tirelessly hunt for the lightest highlights and darkest shadows and are still not secure that indeed you have succeeded, than you will want to take the next three minutes to view this tutorial! This movie explains how to find the highlight and shadow points in an image using the Thresholds command in Adobe Photoshop. You can save considerable time and effort by following this simple set of procedures. You will also learn how to use the color sampler tool to set static points you can continuously monitor as you edit an image. These two tips are especially invaluable tools to a prepress operator modifying images for Flexographic printing! This tutorial is narrated by Catherine Haynes, APR's Training & Product Specialist. Read more: http://www.teamflexo.com/movies/highlight-shadow.asp Tech Tip #2 - Pressroom - Importance of repeats when producing quality products. Print repeats play an important roll in the performance of the finished product and are often overlooked, forgotten or missed in the final job approval. See these recommendations to help eliminate repeats from being out of specification. Submitted by Gary Schollmeyer, APR Read more: http://www.teamflexo.com/technical/repeats.asp  Flexo Expertise and Printing Diagnostics at your fingertips through Sinapse Graphics' IPSS - Integrated Process Support System
Prepress for Flexography 3-Day Workshop on November 20, 21, and 22. How To Design and Implement 
This three day course is designed for anyone that wants to gain knowledge and experience required to design and implement prepress for the flexographic printing process or just improve the ability of jobs to run faster, cleaner and more profitably on a Flexo press. Topics to be covered include:
The workshop is limited to eight participants so that no sharing of equipment is required and individual attention can be given. Each participant will have use of Macintosh workstation for the three-day session. Cost is $900.00 per person. Registration fee includes an on-line Adobe course at PrintingAcademy.com and a CD of the training guide. Register with credit card by October 31st and pay only $675.00 - a 25% discount! For more information, to see what past participants have said, and/or to register online, go to: http://www.teamflexo.com/training/workshops.asp  BASF nylosolv A, Photopolymer Platemaking Washout Solvent 
BASF nylosolv A, photopolymer platemaking washout solvent is an advanced solution for processing virtually all photopolymer plate types fast and with low V.O.C. emissions and odors. He higher flashpoint of nylosolv A allows for processing at higher temperatures and shorter process times. Faster washout times cause less polymer swelling and thus result in shorter drying times. Nylosolv A washout solvent is a component mixture of low toxicity hydrocarbons and alcohol.
Reclaiming nylosolv A requires a simple distillation of saturated solvent and allows for continuous distillation operations. A 55-gallon drum of nylosolv A solvent will typically require only five gallons of fresh solvent to restore the entire volume of the drum. For more information on nylosolv A, facilities suitable to reclaim nylosolv, or any of BASF's full line of conventional or digital plate materials, please call 1-800-445-4017 or e-mail us at info@teamflexo.com. For more information or a quotation on any of the items mentioned in this issue of FlexoGuide, please call 1-800-445-4017 or e-mail us at info@teamflexo.com. Privacy Policy We want to let you know that to protect your privacy, we will never release your e-mail address to a third party. In all cases, every message we send will be clearly identified as coming to you from All Printing Resources, Inc.. And with every message, you will be given an opportunity to opt out from receiving future messages. Even if you have previously submitted e-mail preferences, you may use the link below to check or add to your profile. This will allow us in the future to better select specials, tech tips, featured products, and training updates products and services targeted to your more specific business needs. Thank you for being a FlexoGuide subscriber and for aiding us in the process of making this a continually improving time and money saving guide for the Flexographic printing industry.  |
