The between color deck dryers play an intricate part of the printing process that are often overlooked and improperly maintained. If the dryers are not properly balanced and maintained this can lead to excessive waste and machine downtime. With the dryers being improperly balanced it can lead to dirty print, premature "staining" of anilox rolls, … Read More...
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Identify the Cause — Minimize the Cost - Part 3 of 3 The Conclusion In Part 1 of this series, the focus was on correctly defining and identifying print defects. Part 2 dealt with how the actions of support groups and reactions of the press operator can sometimes minimize the effect while other times they … Read More...
Identify the Cause — Minimize the Cost - Part 2 of 3 In Part 1 of this series, the primary focus was on correctly defining and identifying the print defect and how gear-marks can be present regardless of whether your press is gear or servo driven. Part 2 focuses on the operator's reaction to these … Read More...
Identify the Cause — Minimize the Cost - Part 1 of 3 This particular topic is one of the most common problems that continue to plague the flexographer on an on-going basis. It was even hard for me to come up with a simple title because the distinction between bounce, gear-marks and banding is often … Read More...
Advantages to Cylinder Build Up Material Advantages to cylinder build up material include enabling the user to optimize smaller print cylinders for orders requiring longer repeats, therefore minimizing the need for addition costly print cylinder purchases. Build up materials come in a variety of thickness, two of the most common thicknesses are .040" for 1/4 … Read More...
Though most of us understand the need to run a characterization to fingerprint our processes, many can improve on what information should be recorded about the characterization and how the information is interpreted. When a press characterization is run, it is important that certain information is recorded and retained for future reference. This information is … Read More...
APR helps specialty printer find the ideal tape and mounting plate combinations Customer: Packaging Specialties of Georgia is a food packaging printer servicing industries such as poultry and consumer goods. Situation: To maintain a competitive advantage, be more efficient and standardize plate materials, Packaging Specialties of Georgia seeks expert tape mounting analysis. Solution: A highly … Read More...
APR helps a leading supplier of plates for corrugated box plants stay on a path to growth Customer: Adko is a premier supplier of polymer printing plates for some of the biggest corrugated box plants in the nation. Situation: A growing dissatisfaction with the quality of mounting materials from their long-standing supplier leads them to … Read More...
Part 3 - Ink Spitting In this article, we revisit an earlier article from 2009, Trouble shooting "Ink Spitting", originally written by Tim Reece, this version includes updates by Catherine Haynes. UV Ink Spitting While UV inks continue to increase in popularity over water-based and solvent-based inks due to their outstanding print results, especially in … Read More...
Dirty Print Introduction Dirty print is a bothersome printing defect that stems from a wide array of potential causes. From the pressroom to prepress and platemaking, there are many factors that may contribute to this defect. As higher printing resolutions are demanded of flexographic printers, it is imperative that the process itself is capable of … Read More...