Solutions for Eliminating Static in Package Printing

By Tom Polischuk

packagePRINTING asked a sampling of suppliers to identify specific problems that they have seen and how the problems were solved.

Mark Gibis, vice president of sales, Doyle Systems

Problem—We find that the most difficult problem to solve is when a wide variety of substrates are being run on a particular press. An example would be when a press operator has to go from printing on paperboard (high dust content) to film or foil, then back to paper. This problem was brought up repeatedly by attendees at the recent Labelexpo show in Chicago.