2018 is here - what's your resolution? Plate imaging resolution is more important now than ever. With flat top plate technologies advancing to hold extremely fine detail, adding HD imaging capabilities to your platemaking can greatly boost print quality. The Details - Highlights and Fine Type Highlights and fine type are two classic problem areas … Read More...
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Make the most of your supplies! As all printers know, flexographic printing requires much more than ink, paper, and presses. Simply keeping track of the quantity and variety of supplies needed for a typical flexo shop can be overwhelming. You may ask yourself: How do can I make the right supply choice for my process? … Read More...
Today's Anilox Roll Cleaning Currently, and for the past several years, we have used four primary means of cleaning anilox rolls. We have hand cleaned using stainless steel brushes and primarily caustic chemicals, ultrasonic, media blasting which limits certain line counts on anilox rolls based on the particulate size of the media. Most recently we … Read More...
PLATE/PRINT ANALYSIS “The TSG Difference” All Printing Resources' TSG (Technical Solutions Group) is excited to offer what is the most advanced print analysis available in our industry today, and no doubt will show another example and level of differentiation of TeamFlexo. Obviously samples sent to us for evaluation can be labeled in whatever form you … Read More...
Day three of the FTA Fall Conference didn't disappoint! With opening speakers taking a deep dive into color science and the math behind it, the audience had to put on their thinking caps from the very beginning. I think that's one of the best things about the Fall Conference - it gets quite technical! Mark … 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...
When optimizing a plate material, it can be helpful have an idea of what range of exposure times to test based on UVA lamp intensity. While the method described below will provide a “ballpark” value, all typical plate optimization tests should still be carried out for fine tuning and verification. Reading Manufacturer Documentation Look for … 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...
APR's Technical Solutions Group (TSG) prides ourselves in not just quoting equipment and providing solution based consumables, but making it a point to thoroughly understand a customer’s needs and goals. As water wash plate technologies continue to evolve into a viable competitor to solvent and thermal processing through improved print quality and longevity; chemists developing … Read More...