FIRST Committee
FIRST seeks to understand customers’ graphic requirements for reproduction and translate those aesthetic requirements into specification for each phase of the flexographic printing process; including customers, designers, prepress providers, raw material & equipment suppliers and printers.
The intention of FIRST is to provide all participants in the flexographic reproduction process with a common set of guidelines, tutorials, and data that can be used as communication and production tools.
These updates follow current technological trends in the graphic arts industry that pertain directly to flexography. Members of the FIRST Committee create updates by combining information gathered from Flexo Quality Consortium (FQC) projects, newly adopted worldwide standards and comments/suggestions submitted through the FTA website by the industry at large.
The FIRST Committee is comprised of industry members who are responsible for providing updates to future versions of Flexographic Image Reproduction Specifications & Tolerances (FIRST).
These updates follow current technological trends in the graphic arts industry that pertain directly to flexography. Members of the FIRST Committee create updates by combining information gathered from Flexo Quality Consortium (FQC) projects, newly adopted worldwide standards and comments/suggestions submitted through the FTA website by the industry at large.
The FIRST committee Chair
PJ Fronczkiewicz
DuPont Cyrel Flexographic Solutions
The FIRST committee Members
Mike McGinnis – Menasha Packaging
Eric Ferguson – Avery Dennison
John Gleich – TOPPAN Packaging Americas
Bart Wright – Pacificolor LLC
Randy Nienas – Tyson Foods Inc
Jean Jackson – FTA Hall of Fame
Stefano D’Andrea – Flexo Expert
Dina Vees – California Polytechnic State University
Marek Skrzynski – CSW Inc
Shawn Oetjen – The Meyers Printing Companies Inc
