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According to Barnhart, Opaltone opens up the number of colors a printer can hit. At the same time, he says, “You keep the anilox roll in the same station and same color, and basically just retain your cylinders.”

Like Disc Graphics’ Rebecchi and NBTY’s McManus, Barnhart points to the economic benefit derived from being able to run multiple SKUs across the web. With Opaltone, he says, “There’s no need to change inks or aniloxes when you change jobs or designs (because) you’re not mixing inks or fiddling with density’s anymore. The plate separation, aniloxes, and inks combine to create the accurate color image.” As a result, “Each set up takes less time and there are fewer set ups.” Inventories of ink and anilox rolls are also reduced.