When referring to the screening of the flexo plate, it is possible to confuse whether it is the screening of halftones, which produces the tonal gradations, or the surface structure of the plate applied to improve the ink transfer and laydown.Let’s see what the differences are between these different screenings and how they are connected […]
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It is often thought that the skill of a printing press operator is linked to his ability to solve problems. It’s actually more important to make sure these problems don’t happen. And this is achieved with an in-depth knowledge of the variables and components that interact in the printing process.I covered this in the article
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The sustainability of a printed package doesn’t depend only on the type of substrate used: prepress activities and printing conditions play an important role too. In this article, published on Converting magazine, I tried to give some indications to achieve very significant savings in the flexographic process. You can download the full article with English
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In what sequence do you print your inks?Light to dark? Dark to light? And why? In this video pill I try to give some hopefully useful information for flexographic printers.
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Such a nice experience I had to receive some pages from the Mosstyper newsletter dated 1951 and 1952 when flexography made its debut with the new name.
From a phone call and an email exchange with a flexo printer I propose a quick troubleshooting about printing white ink on transparent BOPP.
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Can you recognise the cause of dirty printing in highlights?It is important to understand wether the issue is related to dot dipping, thus plate-to-anilox ratio, wrong metering of the anilox surface or other causes.What is visible on the printed product is a generally a dirty aspect that forces to repeated stops for plate cleaning and
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