The Ultimate Guide to Flexographic Quality

Online FIRST Certifications

FIRST Individual Certifications will help satisfy your customers through employee development with online, self-paced training programs. For more than 20 years, FIRST (Flexographic Image Reproduction Specifications & Tolerances) has helped production managers bring their printing processes to the next level by providing the procedures and methodologies necessary to produce high-quality and consistent results, pressrun after pressrun.

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Flexographic Image Reproduction Specifications & Tolerances (FIRST) 7.0

FIRST Provides all members of the flexographic supply chain with the technical information needed to produce high-quality and consistent print, pressrun after pressrun.

FIRST seeks to understand customers’ graphic requirements for reproduction and translates those aesthetic requirements into specifications for each phase of the flexographic printing process, including: customers, designers, prepress providers, raw material and equipment suppliers, and printers. Its intention is to provide all participants in the flexographic reproduction process with a common set of guidelines, tutorials and data to be used as communication and production tools.

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FIRST 7.0 Print Edition

Printed on paper with a soft cover.

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