Sean Teufler, Technical Graphic Advisor for the Harper GraphicSolutions division of global anilox roll supplier Harper Corporation, was honored with an FTA President's Award at the recent FFTA Awards Banquet. FTA President Mark Cisternino commented, "Sean is one of those… Read More

Encore Envelopes has achieved a variety of significant accolades at this year’s Excellence in Flexography Awards in San Antonio, Texas. The Awards are organised by the Flexographic Technical Association (FTA). The Tyne and Wear-based company was recognised for its excellent… Read More

Color-Logic will show the versatility of their Process Metallic Color System at Graphics of the Americas 2012, by featuring actual printed samples produced using offset, flexography, digital, wide format, and other processes.… Read More

Burnishine Products has an entirely new website—www.burnishine.com—which details the nearly 125-year history of the company and describes the many products available to printers. Regardless of the process used—offset, flexography, digital, or screen printing—Burnishine offers printers products which streamline pressroom operations.… Read More

EskoArtwork (www.esko.com), has revolutionized the flexographic printing industry with the introduction of HD Flexo two years ago. HD Flexo has brought to flexographic printing a quality level that could previously only be achieved with offset or rotogravure printing processes. HD… Read More

The “Designer’s Guide to Prepress,” a new 210-page paperback book from the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL), is for graphic designers who are preparing digital files for printing. Author Erika Kendra, an experienced independent graphic designer, instructor and speaker,… Read More

When reproducing continuous tone (contone) images on press we cannot (easily) make every dot a specific individual color and tone (like pixels on a computer display) – we are pragmatically limited to a small set of ink colors (less than… Read More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—October 19, 2010—The Label Printing Industries of America (LPIA), a special interest group of Printing Industries of America, is pleased to announce that Louis Iovoli, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Hammer Packaging, Rochester, New York, has been… Read More

Code:  G1040411 Teaser:  Designed especially for those who would like to update his or her overall knowledge of the printing industry, Orientation to the Graphic Arts is entirely new and incorporates even more hands-on opportunities! Make sure your staff understands… Read More

Code:  G1041011 Teaser:  Designed especially for those who would like to update his or her overall knowledge of the printing industry, Orientation to the Graphic Arts is entirely new and incorporates even more hands-on opportunities! Make sure your staff understands… Read More

Mohawk Fine Papers and Fasson have partnered to bring Mohawk Superfine to designers of wine labels, gourmet food, boutique confections, luxury products and more. The resulting new Superfine Premium Label is a specialty label grade manufactured specifically for high-end packaging… Read More

By Nani Paape I recently completed this window cling project for Worker Bees, a Seattle agency. I had the clings printed on a flexographic press. Although I am an old hand at managing offset and digital print projects, this was… Read More

Type:  Conference Code:  G3061210 Teaser:  The 2010 conference is packed with advice from industry experts, a vast array of technology to review and try for yourself, and a plethora of practitioners and experts who will be on hand to help… Read More

The proliferation of new printing technologies like commercial production toner and ink jet presses as well as the rapid increase in quality of some traditional systems like flexography, has made it a bit difficult to determine exactly which printing method… Read More

This article commences a new mini-series targeting the issue of ink drop-off in flexo printing and how to handle this whilst operating within Adobe Illustrator using Phantasm CS Studio and Publisher. It’s intended for all designers and operators of Illustrator… Read More

Undesirable Patterns in PressworkProper press maintenance should be the policy no matter what halftone screening is being used. However, the finer the screen the more critical proper maintenance becomes since the microdots used in high lpi AM/XM and FM screens… Read More

The PressroomPresses Older coldset webs may have problems with FM screens and AM/XM screens finer than 110 lpi. Dampening systems running bareback with a durometer reading harder than 34 may have difficulty running FM.Older presses with conventional dampening systems that… Read More

As I spend more time in South America I appreciate more and more that the growth in these markets, and their increasing capabilities will mean that some of the best packaging in the world will come out of this region… Read More

We have had several busy days in the lab for Proofing.   I had the opportunity to meet many customers and learn about their proofing needs.  Some were existing Kodak Proofing Software customers interested in the latest improvements to the product while… Read More

ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 15– Trisoft Graphics, Inc., a premier digital prepress and graphic design company primarily serving the packaging industry, today announced that it has added a KODAK APPROVAL XP4 Digital Color Imaging System and KODAK INSITE Creative Workflow System… Read More

During a road trip to California following the Kodak sales meeting in Las Vegas, that had over 550 Kodak and distributor members from the Americas, I have got to visit and see first hand two printers breaking the rules in… Read More