Flexography is the youngest among the conventional printing systems: just a baby when compared with letterpress, offset lithography, gravure and screen printing. Its name was chosen with a ballot and finally presented during the 14th Packaging Institute Forum, in October 1952.
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The register between colors is a fundamental aspect for the quality of the printed product. But what is the correct register tolerance and how to evaluate it? ISO 12647-6 connects the register tolerance to the print linescreen. The higher the linescreen, the greater the expected accuracy on the printed product. According to this norm, register
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Surface texturing of flexographic plates is nowadays widely used to improve the ink laydown when using latest flat-top platemaking technologies.The settings for such surface micro screening are carefully evaluated during the optimization phase of system calibration and they shall not be changed for that printing condition.Using wrong settings will cause not only the solids to
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Here is a print condition audit that initially revealed an insufficient quality level, scoring below 30%, and ended with a final score of 83% with satisfaction of both printer and final customer. The printer invested in 3 days of process calibration activities over 3 weeks time with the limitation of using the existing press setup
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I’m really excited and looking forward to being in Bruxelles tomorrow at Labelexpo Europe 2019.This will be my personal 30 years anniversary edition, celebrating my 30 years in the industry as well. In 1989 I was just back to Italy, after almost 3 years at the School of Media Development and Graphic Arts in Kampala,
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Probably not, but you surely need an organised, consistent and repeatable printing system. If I look for a nut suitable for an M4 screw, I just have to look for an M4 nut to make sure I have the right nut. An organised and repeatable system has a better economic and quality yield. This is
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This year I was honoured to be requested as a speaker during the recent Flexo Summit Latin America, organised by ProjetoPack in São Paulo, Brazil on May 22-23, that was announced to be the most interesting event for the flexographic industry in the region. And it really was! The idea was to share with the local
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What is the best resolution for images to be printed in flexography? Well, it depends first of all on the distance that the printed product will be looked at by the viewer: this will determine the suitable linescreen that the image will have on the printed product. A general guideline for AM screening defines a
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There are different dot shapes for screening: round, square, euclidean, elliptical, … which one is the best for flexography? (*) When choosing the dot shape for plate screening, it is important to consider the characteristics of the different geometries and their influence on the printed result. When the plate is inked by the anilox roll and
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How many resolutions do we need to know in flexography?There are four important information related to resolution within the flexo workflow. 1# The resolution of the anilox roll, or its line-screen or cell-count, that is the number of cells engraved on the surface by linear unit of measure. We express it, in the metric system,
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