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Magazine Printer Expands into Packaging with Screen Flexo Device

Publishers Press Flexo Division Adds PlateRite FX87011 Plate Imaging Unit

Anderson & Vreeland System Turns Flexo Plates into Digital

The DigiFlex FlexoJet 1725 inkjet system for narrow web uses, distributed by A&V, transforms analog flexo plates into digital with an opaque mask

Color Management Group, Tucanna Sign Agreement

The Color Management Group will distribute Tucanna solutions, including tFlow, PrintControl and RapidCheck, in the Americas

Kodak System Is for On-The-Go Use

The Prepress Portal System Version 6.5 from Kodak improves workflow and allows users to review, approve, and annotate jobs from their Apple IPAD Tablet

Adflex Installs First KODAK FLEXCEL NX Wide System in the Northeast

Flexo trade shop positions for growth with ability to produce larger plates

QuadTech Reports Color Technology Agreement

QuadTech, Huber Group, and X-Rite cooperate to offer the benefits of in-line and off-line color measurement, advance color technology, and reduce waste

Screen USA Media Day Has Busy Agenda

With prepress equipment on display, customers testimonials, and a report on a Clemson flexo dot study, Screen USA had much to offer on Media Day

Predict Color Accurately with Esko Launch

Color Engine 12 from Esko simulates print by calculating spot inks in different conditions, promising color integrity first time, every time

Liquid Photopolymer Resins Offered by A&V

AVantage liquid photopolymer resins from Anderson & Vreeland offer enhanced imaging, durability, and environmental benefits

Trelleborg Online Calculator Aids Blanket Selection

Making news at Trelleborg: an online downtime calculator to use when choosing printing blankets, and accreditation for blanket use in food packaging

CSW Is LUX Certified as Flexo Platemaker

MacDermid certifies CSW as a LUX digital platemaker, for plates said to offer increased image resolution, crisp reverses, higher press speeds, and more

X-Rite Is Now Part of Danaher

A merger agreement makes X-Rite, which includes Pantone, a part of the Product Identification Group at Danaher Corp.

More Companies Opting for Esko’s HD Flexo Certification

With more companies becoming certified, HD Flexo proves itself as a way to get sharper, great run lengths, and fewer washing cycles

Anderson & Vreeland Offers Direct Engraving Material

AVCE direct engraving material, now available from Stork Prints, offers excellent ink transfer, dimensional stability, and much more

Burnishine Pen Removes Images from Kodak Plates

Burnishine Products' Deletion Pen is formulated to remove images from several varieties of Kodak thermal plates

HD Flexo Certification for Omet

HD Flexo from EskoArtwork, said to provide high print quality, intense colors, and affordable plate production, becomes the benchmark of quality at Omet

EskoArtwork Celebrates 2000 Installations of Cyrel Digital Imager

A repro house in the UK welcomes the 2000th installation of the Cyrel Digital Imager, with HD Flexo, helping it fulfill a major contract for 2012

Create, Edit, Proof Remotely with New GMG Solution

Version 5.3 of the ColorProof/DotProof/FlexoProof proofing solution, with client-server architecture, makes remote proofing and calibration easier

FX ExSpect Plates Are New Offering From PRPflexo

Flat-top-dot plate technology takes a step forward with FX ExSpect plates, said to reduce dot gain and work with different inks and substrates

Color-Logic’s New Viewer Makes Special Effects Easy to Proof

The FX-Viewer works with Color-Logic’s special effects system, allowing users to view the effects before going to press

Blanket Product Lines Will Cost More at Sun Chemical

Increases in the costs of raw materials lead to a price increase on blanket product lines at Sun Chemical

Prepress Services Offered

Company offers prepress services that include converting CMYK files to three-color separations while maintaining integrity of brand owners' design. Reportedly,

Innovation Award to MacDermid

INDIANAPOLIS, IN | The LUX plate processing technology from MacDermid won the 2011 Technical Innovation Award from the Flexographic Technical Assn. (FTA)

Software Systems Are Upgraded

The ColorServer and the InkOptimizer now feature newly revised Device-Link color profiles as well as preconfigured hotfolders for all standard printing

Plates Reduce Dot Gain

Developed for wide web flexible packaging printing with solvent-based inks, the nyloflex FAM digital photopolymer printing plate is medium hard and said

First DuPont Cyrel FAST System Installed in Bangladesh

DuPont Packaging Graphics has announced it has signed an agreement with PADMA Group to purchase a DuPont Cyrel FAST digital imaging system for in-house plate-making in Bangladesh. It is the first installation of a Cyrel FAST solventless thermal plate-processing

MacDermid Combines LUX Flat-Top Dots with LAVA Thermal Processing

MacDermid Printing Solutions announced at the Flexographic Technical Assn.’s INFO*FLEX held at the Indiana Convention Ctr. on May 1-4

View Product in Virtual Store Setting

Company joined with VTales Graphics to create Store Visualizer, a solution that lets users place virtual objects in photographed scenes and allows them

Process Flexo Plates Quickly

The nyloflex Automated Plate Processor (APP) covers flexographic printing plate formats with a maximum plate size of 1,320 mm 2,032 mm and plate thickness

DigiCorr Systems Gain in Popularity

WILMINGTON, DE | DuPont Packaging Graphics has installed four new Cyrel DigiCorr flexo platemaking systems, raising the total number in North America

Sun Chemical HD Plates

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