Action Packaging Leverages Digital, Flexo Printing

Assessing the transition trend from the other direction, Rice says Action has moved "a good number of jobs over to digital from flexo." For one beverage company customer, digital printing services started off "small," but now Action digitally prints 35,000 feet on a 20˝ web of clear BOPP with a PET liner for this firm. Initially, the job ran two-up, Rice observes, but it now runs four-up and is slit coming out of the Xeikon onto the dual waste take-up, before heading over to Action's Digicon diecutting system from AB Graphic International (also installed in 2011). Another Action customer, after seeing the benefits of digital for its applications, moved 80 percent of its volume to digital.