Action Packaging Leverages Digital, Flexo Printing

Model operations

A key element of Action's business plan has been the ability to run most any given job on any one of its presses. "Until [2012] all of our eleven presses were ten inches wide, allowing interchangeability of tooling and eliminating the problem of 'that press is tied up'," Rice explains. Thanks to some additional research and adjustments, he expects this operational model to extend to the Xeikon press. "Our biggest learning curve was matching the output to flexo," Rice relates. "We wanted the transition to be seamless for customers." After tweaking the Xeikon's 4-color formula to produce spot colors from the flexo process, "we can't tell which press we've made it on," he comments. As a result, when higher volumes dictate, a digital job can "seamlessly" transition back to flexo, he adds.