Where Materials and Minds Meet

A creative transformation along these old-to-new lines recently took place at The Outlook Group Corp., a printing firm offering both flexo and letterpress services for packaging and labels, as well as sheetfed offset commercial printing.

Outlook's initial in-line coating/laminating configuration, comprised of used equipment and components and placed behind a 45˝, 6-color flexo press, didn't take efficiencies quite as far as the company wanted to go. The rubber rolls on its older coating station, for instance, required 45-minute changeovers.