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K-1 Packaging Group in City of Industry, CA, has installed an Esko Kongsberg XL22 digital finishing table and Studio Visualizer software, and has plans to add Esko's Automation Engine to integrate the company's MIS system with its comprehensive suite of Esko packaging technology.
tesa tape, an affiliate of tesa SE, has received its HD Flexo Certification by EskoArtwork, for the exceptional print quality of select flexographic printing jobs using its tesa Softprint Family of Plate Mounting Tapes.
Since the last drupa held in 2008 the suppliers of digital solutions have become even more important and reflect the mega-trend of digitization. In six halls, drupa 2012, held at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany, will show everything concerning digital printing, workflow, or Web-to-print applications, just to name some important examples.
Anderson & Vreeland has collaborated with the narrow web industry and EskoArtwork to develop the DI Spark 2420 digital imager that offers all the benefits of digital plates without the cost of unnecessary features.
Featured Products for the the flexographic, narrow-web and package printing industries, including EskoArtwork, Agfa Graphics, Anderson & Vreeland, Flint Group, Dupont, MacDermid, Heidelberg, Presstek and PRPflexo.
EskoWorld 2012 will be held in New Orleans, June 17-20, 2012, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. This year's conference will offer a total print experience—from packaging, labeling and commercial print, to digital finishing, digital flexo, ArtiosCAD and color.
News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on EskoArtwork, Kodak, RotoMetrics, Bobst Group, X-Rite, Anderson & Vreeland, Maxcess, Environmental Inks and Flint Group Flexographic Products.
News on printers in the packaging printing industry, including Star Packaging Corp., Atlantic Zeiser, Hooven-Dayton Corp., Impressions Incorporated, Label World, RR Donnelley, and Menasha Packaging Company.
As the countdown to 2012 drupa begins, participants throughout the flexographic packaging industry are anticipating new technologies and processes that will become available in the near future. When DuPont introduced the DuPont™ Cyrel® Digital Imager (CDI), the first Cyrel® digital printing plate, and a fully digital prepress workflow at 1995 drupa , it could be argued that this was the single most important innovation in the flexographic process since the introduction of the first Cyrel® photopolymer printing plate in 1974. Just like gravure and offset lithography, flexography could now move away from film-based prepress workflows and implement a distributed
EskoArtwork, in acknowledgement of its donation to Michigan State University’s School of Packaging (SoP), announced it has received recognition into The Frank S. Kedzie Society, one of the university’s most prestigious donor recognition groups. Named for the eighth president of MSU, the Kedzie Society is given to individuals, corporations, or foundations that bestow a significant donation to the school. The gift that keeps on giving During the summer of 2011, EskoArtwork donated 30 seats of ArtiosCAD, Visualizer, and Studio. A long-time supporter of MSU, this most recent gift of state-of-the-art package development and design software complements an