FLEXCEL NX System Earns Kodak InterTech Technology Award
For the third time in seven years, Kodak's FLEXCEL NX System has been honored with an InterTech Technology Award from the Printing Industries of America.
New features under the NX advantage umbrella enable users to print more opaque whites, enhance overprints and reverse print, achieve better spot color printing and deliver smooth highlight transitions.
White ink plays a huge role in flexible package printing, and flexo printers have long struggled with the ability to produce clean, solid whites without having to increase ink volumes or make two passes on press. Now, the NX advantage is solving that problem by providing brands with brighter overprinted colors and helping to cut down on ink costs, makeready times and print inconsistency. Spot colors, metallics and image detail – critical in flexo printing – are also dramatically improved with these new features.
Early users are praising the results they are getting with the NX advantage, including Jim Toles, president of Fine Line Graphics. “With the new patterns, we are seeing massive improvements in what was previously one of the most challenging aspects of flexo printing – smooth whites in one pass with no mottling or irregularities," Toles says. "This is just one of the many reasons that we are now using FLEXCEL for a majority of our work.”
Tristan Zafra, owner of Trisoft Graphics notes, “Some of the most common problems and challenges with flexo, such as pin-holing, insufficient opacity, and trail edge voids, are virtually eliminated with this new NX advantage screening technology from Kodak. We discovered quickly that we could print much higher densities with more consistency and that we could achieve higher opacity on the all-important white plate with less ink.”
