Printing

Out in Front

Published: August 01, 2007

With an eye on huge growth in luxury brands, UpFront expands its resources with a Mitsubishi UV sheet-fed press.

Flexo Forges Bond

Published: August 01, 2007

With an eye on expansion into the wine label market, a South African converter buys its first flexographic press.

Automated Web Handling Reduces Costs

Published: July 31, 2007

Germark finds automated web handling equipment from Martin Automatic boosts productivity while offering fast payback.

Gidue Installs Presses in Australia

Published: July 24, 2007

With the recent sale of an Intelligent Combat, Gidue has sold six presses in Australia, with a seventh machine currently under production.

Gidue Installs Press in India

Published: July 22, 2007

The E-Combat 378 eight-color press installed at Sel-Jegat marks the third installation in India since the beginning of 2007.

Treat 'em Right

Published: July 01, 2007

Offset printer adds corona treating to its eight-color press and improves print quality on a new product line: in-mold film labels.

Oui to Flexo

Published: July 01, 2007

The Flexographic Technical Assn. (FTA) called its Forum 2007 “Crossing Borders: Flexo’s Global Gateway.” Very apropos; globalization was a big part of the agenda.

Working Undercover

Published: July 01, 2007

Brand security and authentication are integral features of product design in today’s global economy. Converters have a role to play.

Coding: A Digital Signature

Published: July 01, 2007

As marketing manager for brand protection solutions at Videojet Technologies, Jack Walsh knows a thing or two about product authentication. In the past

Brand Security Products

Published: July 01, 2007

New brand security products from: Kodak, Henderson Engineering, XSYS Print Solutions, HolographINK, Agfa Graphics, and ARmark.

Shining Stars

Published: July 01, 2007

The Gravure Assn. of America hits hot topics and announces honors.

Converting industry trends include shorter run lengths, regional designs, special promotions, and quicker turnaround times. These trends can have an adverse effect on performance measures in the pressroom, since set-up costs, downtime, substrate waste, and press return inks are being supported by fewer print impressions. At some point we will see diminishing returns where current converting practices are no longer capable of meeting Consumer Product Company (CPC) needs at acceptable levels of profit to the converter.