Flexible Packaging

Color brilliance and excellent run stability are just two of the advantages gravure printing has over other printing methods. It also boasts soft vignettes down to 0 percent and ultrafine screens. Contour sharpness on linework, however, is less pronounced in gravure printing, as is detail reproduction on fine graphical elements.

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Price pressure in the printing and packaging industry is omnipresent. While gravure printing is widely perceived as the printing technology that offers the highest and most consistent print quality at high speeds, the relatively high set up costs of the gravure printing process do pose a challenge.

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Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H) is once again breaking new ground in the gravure market with its updated Heliostar II press.

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For many years, Enulec of Germany has specialized in the production of electrostatic print assist systems (ESA) for gravure printing applications. However, package printing, with its extensive use of widely differing film substrates, is still a particular challenge for the reliable application of ESA systems.

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Global prepress expert Janoschka has added Japris, another innovative product, to its portfolio. The ‘Janoschka Prismatic Effect Cylinder’ enables a new generation of finishing solutions for packaging.

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There is nothing new about the desire to optimize gravure cylinder engraving for more than just the process colors. When it comes to spot colors, the aim is usually to achieve higher speeds or save ink. Particularly in price-sensitive fields of application, this approach has been around a long time. Optimized cell geometries and inks…

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In 1970 a short piece of news appeared in the pages of The Times newspaper on the K Hand Proofer designed and developed by RK Print Coat Instruments.

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Jakob A. Mosser, CEO von Coveris, wurde zum neuen Vorsitzenden des europäischen Verbandes Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE, Düsseldorf) gewählt. Mosser führt Coveris als CEO seit 2018 und blickt auf 30 Jahre Erfahrung, vor allem in der internationalen Verpackungsindustrie, zurück.

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“It’s a great feeling when passing for print to have a first or second pull in your hand and to sign it off with a clear conscience”, declared Eva Jüde-Loeffler in an interview, that she gave at the 4th Packaging Printing Expert Meeting. “Unfortunately, I’ve learned from many years of practical experience that things don’t…

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“You don‘t make progress by standing on the side-lines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” Shirley Chisholm’s words would never be more apposite than during the covid pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. As a family-owned gravure press manufacturer, the initial weeks of complete lockdown could have left us at Kohli whimpering. We…

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Gravure is the classic printing process for long runs because it guarantees consistency, print quality and colour brilliance like no other process. It is therefore ideally suited for the production of high-circulation magazines and catalogues as well as advertising flyers and supplements of retail chains, for the production of film packaging for food, snacks, confectionery…

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THE GRAVURE GLOBAL IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS FREE DOWNLOAD IN OUR SHOP NOW. Just how enormous the spectrum across which gravure printing is used can be judged from the variety of places where we encounter its products in our daily lives, from the newsagent, to the supermarket, the pharmacy, our own kitchens or hotel bedrooms.

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Zu den Stärken des Tiefdruckverfahrens gehören hohe Produktqualität, maximale Stabilität und Homogenität im Auflagendruck wie bei Wiederholaufträgen. Sie beweisen sich vor allem in der aktuellen Corona-Pandemie: Dringend benötigte Verpackungen für große Markenartikler und Lebensmittelproduzenten müssen in großen Auflagen hergestellt werden.

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Eine jüngst aktualisierte und erweiterte Studie des Instituts für Energie- und Umweltforschung (ifeu) zeigt deutlich auf, dass flexible Verpackungen ein wirksamerer Weg zu mehr Ressourceneffizienz und zu einem geringeren CO2– Fußabdruck sind als die Verwendung starrer Verpackungen oder die ausschließliche Fokussierung auf Recycling. Die neue Studie, von Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) in Auftrag gegeben, bestätigt…

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AR Packaging, zu der auch A&R Carton gehört, hat die Übernahme der deutschen Verpackungsgruppe rlc abgeschlossen.

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