Tag: flexo
Digital labelling goes mainstream
This year’s Labelexpo, held in Brussels, Belgium, was one of the most interesting revelations so far this year, reports Nessan Cleary in Part 2...
Flexcel NX gains traction at Digiflex
Hyderabad-based Techno Graphic Services (TGS) has marked a new beginning in its print business with the opening of a new prepress service bureau, Digiflex....
Rajendra Arts installs Xeikon ThermoFlexx 30 imager
Ahmednagar-based flexo prepress house Rajendra Arts installed Xeikon Thermoflexx 30 in the last week of September. The prepress bureau is managed by Rajendra Joshi...
Uflex’s robotic gravure plant and DLE for flexo sleeves
India’s largest flexible packaging company, Uflex, is setting up a robotic plant for producing gravure cylinders at its Noida location. The company, which is...
Emba installs sixth flexo folder-gluer in Indore
The corrugation industry may not have been very organized or technology friendly over the years. However, in the last few years, the trend has...
What is the real cost of color management in India?
We have been ethical consultants to the print and packaging industry for over 36 years. And having printed the Munsell Fost charts at Thompson Press in 1979, we continue to talk about color management as part of our best practice and standardization advocacy and consulting practice. At first this entailed the exposure of an original film color control strip for each of the four process inks – for visually evaluating the offset plate resolution and the printed solid densities and 40 as well as 80% tint boxes measured with a hand-held densitometer. Solid overlaps of the four inks could be evaluated for trapping – the ability of an ink to split and be accepted by the previously printed ink.
Japan’s response to gravure profitability in an era of short-runs
Recently, the Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology held a meeting to discuss new technologies aimed at helping the gravure printing industry succeed...
Water-washable flexo plate
Fujifilm has come up with an advanced new water-washable flexo plate, Flenex FW forlabel converters, who can benefit from this high quality and low...
Taiyo shows STF 340
At the IGAS 2015 exhibition in Tokyo, Taiyo revealed its new STF 340 narrow web flexo label press to a large number of very...