All posts by Catherine Haynes

In conjunction with the launch of Techkon's SpectroVision, the fastest inline spectrophotometer on the market, Techkon is hosting a free webinar, presented by Catherine Haynes of All Printing Resources, to help educate flexographic printing professionals on print consistency and process control essentials. 4 Essential Strategies to Printing Consistently What are the secrets to ensuring print consistency? While employing … Read More...
Announced Today, New X-Rite Product Discontinuations: In order to continue to provide our partners and customers with the most efficient products and technology, we will be discontinuing the following models effective April 27, 2018 and replace them with a new instrument. Stay tuned for another detailed announcement regarding updates to the eXact Portfolio coming later in … Read More...
“My press runs continue to get SHORTER!” “I need to create and produce things FASTER!” Wait, was that an echo? Does this sound like something you are saying or hearing more and more? The pressures of short runs and faster turnarounds have many converters looking to move prepress in-house. But then maybe you begin to … Read More...
APR will have two team members participating in the sessions at this year's FTA Forum 2018, May 6-9. Richard Black is one of the speakers in the First in Motion session on Tuesday. Catherine Haynes will be co-chairing and speaking in the Troubleshooting Survival Guide on Wednesday. Both of these sessions hit on key areas of concern or “pains” … Read More...
Are you new to the Flexo industry or getting into new markets? Is this your first time diving into CMYK or ECG printing? Perhaps you have specific project or expectations focused on improving production efficiencies, decreasing waste and growing your business. If so, APR will be hosting several Events in 2018 meant just for you! … Read More...
FTA Fall Conference 2017 Review Opening Sessions The tally is in, with over 350 attendees, this years FTA Fall Conference 2017 delivered on its promises for "strong technical content." The 3-day conference was held in St. Louis at the Hyatt Regency right next to The Arch. The conference opened with a historical perspective from industry … Read More...
Thats right!Techkon is the first device to incorporate SCTV in their SpectroDens! So what is SCTV? ISO 20654:2017 - This method for the calculation of Spot Colour Tone Value (SCTV) produces approximately uniform visual spacing of tones between  substrate and solid. It can be calculated from spectral reflectance or colorimetric measurements of the solid ink, substrate and one or more patches of … Read More...
Released in May 2017, Techkon ChromaQA Client/Server solution for pressroom color management has been complete revamped. It is now Cloud-Hosted via Amazon Server (it is NOT available as self-hosted). Key Changes: Very Customizable interface Customizable fields for job information Customizable Dash Board for easy access to preferred process control tools Customizable Reports Customizable Score Cards ChromaQA … Read More...