Converting Magazine Blogs
Flexo: Getting another step closer to gravure?
Gravure quality and consistency have long been the Holy Grail of packaging printing. Now, for flexographers, that ultimate goal may be one step closer. Kodak is introducing its new DigiCap NX Screening (used in conjunction with its FTA award-winning Flexcel NX digital flexographic plates) to take the process one level higher for flexible-packaging printing. Summed up in the supplier’s ... More
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The Converting Curmudgeon is a regular reality check into the true value of all that impacts the management and growth of your business.
Pigmented skins for opacity improvement
In reply to the suggestion to add a pigmented layer to improve the 7 layer product opacity variation, while the addition of a percentage or two of a 60% TiO2 master batch to the skins of the 7 layer opaque film might improve the overall appearance, it does not really fix the problem of the core layer distribution, the fundamental problem. Adding the white pigment to other layers will a ... More
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Discusses how films are made (extrusion, coextrusion, coating, etc.), formulated, converted and how they function for the end user.
New way of packaging food that hasn't found a market
What happened: This past week Le Whif introduced the first breathable, organic chocolate and coffee. According to its creator, David Edwards, a Harvard professor, “Le Whif uses particle engineering to form chocolate in particle sizes that are small enough to to become airborne though too large to enter the lungs.” Flavors include pure chocolate, raspberry chocolate, and mint cho ... More
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Addresses a range of marketing topics from building an online brand image to creating brand messages that produce qualified sales leads.
Heidelberg's latest digital-print effort: Linoprint Part 2
I recently had a conversation with Jim Umbdenstock, president of Griffin-Rutgers a dealer who handles the Heidelberg Linoprint line in North America. Griffin-Rutgers carries an extensive line of digital case- and product-marking systems and consumables, so they are no stranger to the needs for in-line label and carton printing…just what the Linoprint systems is designed for. Jim walk ... More
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Covers new technology and market trends for digital packaging printing, including presses, substrates, inks, coatings and finishing systems.
Folding back on the box
The cartons we made in my Advanced Typography course this last week suffered from a flaw that most of you readers could probably have cautioned me about. The diecutting line fails to compensate for the thickness of the cardboard itself. In the finished carton I should have made one of the two side flaps thinner by 0.05 in., the thickness of the E-flute board we used to make the cartons. This woul ... More
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Prepress Trends, sponsored by EPSON, covers the latest trends in technology and materials for package-printing prepress operations including workflow, processing, platemaking, proofing and imaging. Regular posts are written by Brian P. Lawler, a graphic-arts and prepress consulant based in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Day 46 of 91 selling days:* Relationship Building 2.0
I was talking with my Dad yesterday over lunch. Both of those events are rarities, so I tried to cherish the moment. We got talking about business and specifically how things have changed since his day (he’s 85). The conversation turned to the subject of relationship building. See, my older brother Andy was invited to the wedding of a client of his. In fact, we were having lunch at the rest ... More
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This blog covers all aspects of selling your company's package-printing products and services and how to better manage those sales.
