Tag: flexo
HP and KBA – transformers for corrugated packaging printing
HP is working hard to become the dominant player in the graphic arts industry, and recently announced plans work with KBA on a new...
The value engineers of 3D optical effects
Kuldip and Naveen Goel’s Any Graphics was already a well-known and award-winning label printing business when its new plant in Noida’s Sector 65 was...
Soma stars at Labelexpo
There were several important themes or threads revealed by the Labelexpo in Brussels including the serious interest in extended gamut printing using 7-colors, the...
Labelexpo – beyond digital
Digital printing may have captured the headlines from Labelexpo but there were plenty of new flexo solutions on show.
Labelexpo is a useful reminder that...
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.