Wide-web Ink Niche

Walle also frequently hears requests for inks that can hold finer halftone dots, due to a movement toward wide-web process printing on film, typically using flexo with fine anilox line screens.

Current ink usage habits should stay firmly in place in 1999. Printers surveyed came across as resoundingly satisfied with their approach to environmental controls for solvent inks, with 90 percent expressing no need to purchase additional controls or control upgrades this year.