White ink with the highly abrasive titanium dioxide pigment, along with pearlescent and metallic inks, will generate much more blade wear than typical process color inks. Managing extreme wear situations is critical to building a better bottom line.
Allison Systems Corp’s Bill Warner shows how to determine the ideal blade for your printing.
Guidelines on achieving uniform ink metering throughout a flexographic printrun.
Senior executives from the supplier sector analyze critical topics affecting the package printing and converting community.
Game changing technologies brought out by innovative FTA member companies and supporters.
Flexographic presses utilize one of three methods to control the ink being delivered to the anilox roll. The three methods, in order of increasing effectiveness, are fountain roll metering, single-blade systems and chambered systems. Most applications are better served with either a single blade or chambered doctor blade system. This article will provide a comparison … Continued
Everyone enjoys special effects, whether they are found in the latest sci-fi thriller, a video game, or on a printed package or label. As competition between products gets more intense, brand owners are always looking for a way to use special effects to: Stand out on the store shelf Trigger impulse purchasing Increase product security … Continued
Priorities, advantages, impact—suppliers are pressing flexographic printers and converters to focus on this trio of overarching concerns in 2019. They claim doing so will help advance the industry, facilitate moving out on 10 commonly cited strategic directions, enhance flexography’s competitive posture and maintain its position as packaging’s print process of choice. Included in that top … Continued
RIVERSIDE, NJ—Allison Systems Corp announced it has been approved for ISO 9001:2015 Certification by Perry Johnson Registrars. The certification scope is to design, manufacture, and distribute doctor blades, blade systems and related components for the worldwide printing industry. Allison Systems has a reputation of providing quality products that consistently meet their customers’ expectations for the … Continued
WILMINGTON, DE—Sixty flexographers eager to advance their knowledge and learn how to further enhance their print quality were in attendance at the recent I-95 Flexo Seminar. The seminar—free for FTA members—took place April 4 at the DuPont Customer Technology Center in Wilmington, DE. Five industry experts gave presentations which covered both the critical components at … Continued
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