Crown Roll Leaf Inc.

Using a combination of security strategies, suppliers, converters, and retailers are working together to decrease theft. ACCORDING TO THE 2001 National Retail Security Study, total inventory shrinkage cost U.S. retailers $32.2 billion, up from $29 billion the year before. In a trend driven largely by merchants and brand owners, today's industry suppliers are working hand-in-hand with converters to develop the most secure packaging. Depending on the application, there are many options available. Ink suppliers are steadily pumping out new types of specialty formulations, many of which showed improved usage rates in this year's packagePRINTING Annual Ink Usage Survey. (See the January 2003 issue

These products and companies were the most sought-after in 2002 by packagePRINTING readers. Top 10: Prepress Equipment 1. Creo—PDF-based packaging workflow Prinergy Powerpack, copydot scanning systems, film imagers, and CtP devices 2. Agfa—Workflow and color management systems including the AgfaScan XY-15 Plus, Sherpa 43 Inkjet system, and Lithostar plates 3. Kodak Polychrome Graphics—Offers Digital and conventional plates, film, and proofing and color technologies including the Kodak Approval XP unit 4. BASF—Offers Nyloflex® and Nyloprint® equipment combinations for processing photopolymer flexo and letterpress plates and sleeves 5. MacDermid—Broad range of sheet, liquid, digital, and water-wash photopolymer plates, platemaking equipment, sleeves,

If a consumer product doesn't leap off the shelf with its graphic appeal, it might just be there awhile. by Tom Polischuk THE BATTLE FOR the consumers' buck is fought on many fronts, but usually a consumer product company's (CPC) last shot is taken at the store shelf. All those advertising dollars might not mean much if a competitor is able to get a potential buyer to pick up its product just because of its attention-getting graphics and packaging. CPCs are well aware of this and that's why you see such attractive packaging just about everywhere on the store shelves. At the forefront

The following suppliers offer printing materials, from label stocks, paperboard, and films, to thermal transfer ribbons and hot stamping foils: Acucote Pressure-sensitive labelstocks with environmentally-safe, water-based, permanent, removable, and specialty adhesive formulations. Specialists in thermal transfer media. Visit www.acucote.com API Foils Hot stamping foils and supplies: metallic, pigment, pearl, specialty, and holographic foils. Visit www.api-worldwide.com Avery Dennison, Fasson Roll N.A. Innovative self-adhesive solutions for consumer products and label products. Fasson-brand pressure-sensitive and non-adhesive coated papers, films, and foils in roll form are widely used in brand identity, bar code labeling systems, product identification, and other applications by

What products and companies were most sought-after in 2001 by packagePRINTING readers? Here's the scoop on the year's most-wanted technologies, ranked below based on responses to both editorial features and display advertising.*** TOP 10: Prepress Equipment 1. Anderson & Vreeland—Photopolymer plate processing systems, rubber plate molding presses, flexo platemaking materials, digital imaging systems and software 2. DuPont Cyrel—Photopolymer plate and prepress systems, including Cyrel FAST thermal technology 3. BASF—Nyloflex® and nyloprint® equipment combinations for processing flexo and letterpress plates and sleeves 4. MacDermid—Sheet, liquid, digital, and water-wash photopolymer plates, platemaking equipment, sleeves, and plate mounting systems for flexo printing 5. CreoScitex—PDF-based packaging

Acucote Pressure-sensitive labelstocks with environmentally safe, water-based, permanent, removable, and specialty adhesive formulations. Specialists in thermal transfer media. Visit www.acucote.com API Foils Hot stamping foils and supplies: metallic, pigment, pearl, specialty, and holographic foils. Visit www.api-worldwide.com Contract Converting Film product offerings include Plastiprint, a synthetic paper with the durability of plastic. Roll Express (TM) program offers various non-pressure-sensitive stock options, as well as the whitest, brightest, C1S on the market, and a 62# metallized paper for specialty applications. The program also includes 100#, 125#, 175#, and 200# uncoated tag. Arjobex Polyart (TM)—a unique clay coating on both sides