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APR Customer McCracken Label Installs Fujifilm Water Wash Plate System Glendale Heights, IL (January 27, 2021) — All Printing Resources (APR) has installed a Fujifilm Flenex FW water-wash plate system at McCracken Label in Chicago, Illinois. Flenex FW is a water-washable flexo plate that provides the highest print quality and productivity. According to Luke Vassiliades, … Read More...
APR and SpotOn! launch SpotOn Color™ Management Software for Flexo Printers Glendale Heights, IL (January 20, 2021) – All Printing Resources (APR) and SpotOn! have introduced SpotOn Color™ — a new color management platform for the pressroom and other areas of production. APR is the exclusive distributor of the new software tool. SpotOn Color combines … Read More...
Home Testimonials FAQs Support QCC   Color Control On Press... Systematically, Running to Delta E Easy to Use Color communication (Spectral Data, CIELAB, CIELch, Chroma, Hue, Saturation) can be difficult, especially in the press room where no press adjustments exist for any of these items. SpotOn Color makes this ... Learn more No More Guessing … Read More...
Are you still skeptical on the use of synthetic doctor blades in your flexographic printing process? While it may be natural to have doubts, the benefits of these blades may be too good to ignore. Today's technology in synthetic doctor blades is not like the "plastic blades" of the past. Esterlam's biaxially oriented polyester offers … Read More...
Cleaning flexographic printing plates after a press run and prior to storage can quickly become a bottleneck, eventually piling up and lead to a labor intensive and undesirable job to accomplish manually. Left uncleaned, plates can be damaged or offer poor print results in subsequent press runs. With APR's line of Automatic Plate Washers, this task … Read More...
Dirty print is something many flexographic printers may struggle with. An online search will reveal quite a few cause and effect diagrams or charts for possible solutions for the common issue. In some cases printers go through the gamut, making sure their ink is in spec, dryers are balanced, adding slower drying solvents to the … Read More...
Printing, packaging industry shows support for STRIPE, Sonoco Institute’s virtual online print training tool Clemson, S.C. — All Printing Resources (APR) has become the fifth industry sponsor to support STRIPE, a novel virtual online educational tool for the package printing industry developed by the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University. APR’s … Read More...
Plateroom Process Control Video Series We all know that pressroom process control is important, but plateroom process control is equally important and sometimes gets overlooked. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how good your pressroom controls are if you are sending out subpar or irregular plates. Nothing in these videos is groundbreaking, just a friendly reminder of … Read More...
All Printing Resources (APR) has expanded its popular educational video library with a new twelve-part series on plateroom process control. The video series is offered complimentary on APR’s YouTube Channel and each of the segments runs approximately five minutes long. The first six episodes have been released and will be followed by six more. The … Read More...