Labor Issues Straining Today's Printers Are you feeling the effects? In the last few years we have been hearing and seeing our industry struggle with labor related issues. Industry Surveys and Events continue to sight the following as top-level issues straining print companies today: workforce shortages, unskilled labor pools, and difficultly retaining newly trained employees … Read More...
Did you hear? Graymills went Digital! Announcement from just before Christmas 2018: Over the past several months, Graymills has been working with service engineers at HP to develop a parts cleaner. This product was designed specifically for washing parts (pumps, tanks, mixers and occasionally press cleaning station and ink developers) from an HP Indigo Press … Read More...
Rich solids. Smooth vignettes. Intricate details. Design elements like these continue to challenge the Flexo industry to improve. Many of today’s flexo printers continue to rise to those challenges with innovations and processes that advance their Flexo print capabilities. In an effort to showcase the advancements in flat top plates, high-end screening, and UV-LED … Read More...
In my brief 12-year Flexo career (yes, I started in the dark side of printing — Litho! 😉 ), I have never seen a technology have such a dramatic impact on Flexo print quality as Flat; Top Dot plates. Way back in 2010, I co-chaired the FTA Fall Conference in Louisville, KY along with Chair … Read More...
Hosted in San Antonio TX, June 5-7, this year’s EskoWorld 2018 proved to be another information packed event for Esko users. THEME: Packaging Connected EskoWorld 2018 welcomed over 500 customers, with nearly 40% of them being new attendees. Chris Miller, VP NA & APAC, announced the theme for this year’s event as “Packaging Connected”… and … Read More...
Simply Clean is APR's very own line of press room cleaners. The product line contains non-caustic cleaners designed for water based and UV inks that are much safer than the competition. One often over looked product in the line up is Simply Clean SW (Solvent Wash). SW was originally designed to be a non-caustic cleaner for … Read More...
For years and years, the primary press control has been Solid Ink Density (SID). In recent years, this has changed dramatically! In every article and every conference, the common theme is running to Delta E (dE) not density. Why? Because SID is NOT a color measurement, it is a measurement of Lightness or Darkness. That's … Read More...
“First master the fundamentals.” – Larry Bird Many an NFL game is lost because of poor fundamentals (as a Bears fan I can really identify with this statement). No matter how good the defensive or offensive strategy is it doesn’t really matter when a player can’t make a tackle or misses a block. Fundamentals do … Read More...
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...