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News on suppliers to the package printing industry, including EskoArtwork, Mark Andy, Technicote, Anderson & Vreeland, Davis-Standard, MacDermid Printing Solutions and more.

In the not-so-distant past, flexographic package printing took a back seat to the high-quality, high-volume capabilities of gravure and offset. That was then. Over the years, as volumes shrank and marketing strategies began to embrace smaller, regional promotions, flexo—with its quicker set-up times and ability to handle limited run lengths economically on a generous variety of substrates—began to be viewed as a viable alternative to both gravure and offset.

Kodak, through a strategic partnership with VMware, is launching its first Virtual Operating Environment option for KODAK Unified Workflow Solutions. This new feature enables significant cost savings, increased efficiency and failover protection by hosting multiple "virtual" servers simultaneously on a single physical server.

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—In June, Kodak’s customers from the commercial printing, publishing, and packaging industries will gather at the annual Graphic Users Association (GUA) North American Conference to learn about new solutions, best practices, and ways to maximize their current and future investments. Themed “Growing to New Heights,” the event takes place June 6 – 10 at the InterContinental Hotel in New Orleans, La.

News on suppliers to the package printing industry, including Ashland Performance Materials, Flint Group, Eastman Kodak Company, Avery Dennison and more...

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) has announced plans to host the Harper Road Show 2011 on March 30 at its global headquarters in Green Bay. Visitors will see both narrow inline and wide web CI machines in one location and learn from the experts how to make sure their operation runs as efficiently and competitively as possible.

Kodak has completed its previously announced acquisition of substantially all of the assets of the relief plates business of Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. (TOK). The acquisition expands and enhances Kodak’s capabilities to serve customers, particularly in the packaging industry, a key growth segment for the company.

Featured Products for the the flexographic, narrow-web and package printing industries, including UV flexo inks, low viscosity inks, heat shrink labels, inkjets, in-line pH sensors and more.

Color-Logic has certified KODAK FLEXCEL NX Digital Flexographic Plates for use with the Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System.

Label Summit Latin America opens up in Sao Paulo, Brazil May 17-18,  2011 at the Hotel Transamerica with a new format that will see live machinery demonstrations take place for the very first time.