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...
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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...
All Printing Resources helps premier printer reduce costs with new end seal solution Customer: Ampac Flexibles is a premier supplier of high performance printed and laminated materials to the pharmaceutical and food industries. Situation: End seals in their enclosed press chambers were costly to replace and frequently caused leakage and down time. Solution: APR designs … Read More...
In today's competitive marketplace, you are being asked to get products out the door faster, deal with shorter runs, and unexpected changes, lower costs, achieve higher production goals, and increase productivity overall without sacrificing quality. How can APR help? By being a resource for solutions that save you time, lower waste, speed up the press, … Read More...
All Printing Resources helps packaging printer make the leap to digital platemaking Customer: Prairie State Group, a full-service printer of unique packaging products, such as narrow-web flexible packaging, as well as pressure-sensitive labels. Situation: With significant funds being spent outsourcing digital platemaking, this printer needed to go from conventional "analog" platemaking to a more accurate, … 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...
Ask a person ordering anilox rolls what his or her greatest fear is, as it relates to anilox rolls, and the answer you're likely to get is "that the darned thing will get scored as soon as we put it in the press." It's a common refrain. Excluding accidental occurrences such as a blade hold-down … Read More...