Automation On the Road to Seamless

"There are more similarities between commercial printing and packaging workflows than there are differences," continues Miller, noting that commercial lithographers increasingly are branching into packaging work. In fact, most suppliers of workflow management systems are building products that can fit into both the litho and flexo markets. Printers with a core prepress system, such as those available from Creo, Artwork Systems, Esko-Graphics, or Enovation can purchase additional bundles to handle such packaging requirements as step and repeat, trapping, high-resolution screening, and much more.