Untangling Regulations: Commercial Printing Industry Standards
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Untangling Regulations: Commercial Printing Industry Standards

May 3, 2021 10:21:37 AM 3 min read
Ensuring Safety & Success with Medical Industry Packaging and Labeling
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Ensuring Safety & Success with Medical Industry Packaging and Labeling

Apr 13, 2021 4:15:00 PM 3 min read
Ghosting in Flexo Printing: Exorcise Your Printing Demons
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Ghosting in Flexo Printing: Exorcise Your Printing Demons

Mar 24, 2021 9:55:13 AM 3 min read
What Is Distortion in Flexo Printing? Plate Thickness is One Factor
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What Is Distortion in Flexo Printing? Plate Thickness is One Factor

Mar 17, 2021 9:00:00 AM 2 min read
Flexo Printing Defects: ‘Skip Out’ a Matter of Poor Ink Transfer
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Flexo Printing Defects: ‘Skip Out’ a Matter of Poor Ink Transfer

Jun 16, 2020 10:00:00 AM 3 min read
Flexographic Printing Defects: Pinholing Causes and Solutions
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Flexographic Printing Defects: Pinholing Causes and Solutions

Nov 11, 2019 10:29:00 AM 2 min read
How the Pressroom Climate Affects Flexo Inks & Press Efficiency
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How the Pressroom Climate Affects Flexo Inks & Press Efficiency

Jun 20, 2018 9:13:34 AM 2 min read
‘Halo’: Not So Heavenly Among Flexo Printing Defects
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‘Halo’: Not So Heavenly Among Flexo Printing Defects

Feb 23, 2018 10:28:33 AM 3 min read

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Untangling Regulations: Commercial Printing Industry Standards

Commercial printing is a very complex world that involves a lot of attention to detail. A robust in-house printing system has technical requirements and necessary technology in addition to maintenance schedules, and routine system checks for quality...

Ensuring Safety & Success with Medical Industry Packaging and Labeling

The argument could be made that there are more requirements for medical industry packaging and labeling than any other industry. You have to meet the FDA's requirements for physical packaging, of course, but you also need to be clear and concise...

Ghosting in Flexo Printing: Exorcise Your Printing Demons

Flexo printing technology is more advanced than ever before. With faster presses, new image carriers, and better inks, flexo printing is perhaps the most efficient printing process out there. 

But, that doesn’t mean printers aren’t still haunted by...

What Is Distortion in Flexo Printing? Plate Thickness is One Factor

If you’ve ever seen a child play with Silly Putty and newspaper, then you’ve seen image distortion at work. When the putty is pressed to the newspaper, the ink and text are transferred. Then, when the child stretches the putty -- or even puts it...

Flexo Printing Defects: ‘Skip Out’ a Matter of Poor Ink Transfer

Is your substrate coming off the press with prints that are either too light or entirely missing in sections? That’s what we in the business call skip out, very common among flexo printing defects.

Flexographic Printing Defects: Pinholing Causes and Solutions

You may notice areas of your substrate don’t print fully, sometimes leaving tiny unprinted areas about the size of a pinhole. Quite appropriately, this common flexographic printing defect is called pinholing.

How the Pressroom Climate Affects Flexo Inks & Press Efficiency

Atmospheric conditions can be a root cause of issues with ink drying and viscosity in flexographic printing. On a related note, these conditions can also affect the speed at which you can effectively run your press. Pressroom climate (whether it’s...

‘Halo’: Not So Heavenly Among Flexo Printing Defects

We can’t stress enough that flexographic printing is a pressure-sensitive process. If pressure is not applied correctly and uniformly from your print cylinder to the substrate, you’re bound to experience flexo printing defects.

The halo effect is...

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