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FIRST PLACE Rotocolor, Hayward, Calif. Marilyn Merlot Press: Mark Andy Plates/Screens/Cylinders: DuPont, Flowdrive, Wilson Anilox: Harper Dies: Wilson Substrate: Fasson Ink: Water Ink Technologies SECOND PLACE Collotype Labels, Mile End South, South Australia Stamp of Australia Press: Gallus Plates/Screens: DuPont, Gallus Anilox: Harper Dies: RotoMetrics Substrate: Raflatac Ink: UV Flint Group THIRD PLACE Hammer Packaging, Rochester, N.Y. Peregrine Hill Press: Comco Plates/Cylinders: DuPont, RotoMetrics Dies: Wilson Mfg. Substrate: Raflatac Ink: Wikoff, Sun Chemical, Eckart, Rad-Cure

FIRST PLACE McDowell Label and Screen Printing Co., Inc., Plano, Texas Winter Scene Press: Gallus Plates/Screens/Cylinders: DuPont, Gallus, Wilson Mfg. Anilox Rolls: Harper Dies: Wilson Mfg. Substrate: FLEXcon Ink/Coating/Adhesive: XSYS SECOND PLACE Label Technology, Merced, Calif. Weight Watchers Honey Almond Crisp Press: Mark Andy Anilox Rolls: Harper Dies: RotoMetrics Substrate: Technicote Ink: INX THIRD PLACE Banta Specialty Converting, Milwaukee, Wis. Kohler Plumbing - Fairfax 12182 - CP Press: Mark Andy Plates: DuPont Anilox Rolls: Harper Dies: RotoMetrics Ink: XSYS THIRD PLACE Gintzler Graphics Inc., Buffulo, N.Y. Essence

As a unanimous vote among packagePRINTING’s 2006 Excellence Award judges, Hayward, Calif.-based Rotocolor’s “Marilyn Merlot” wine label is this year’s Best of Show honoree for its superior flexographic printing. “It really shows where flexo can go,” said Roy Webb, national sales manager, Mark Andy. “It has fantastic quality and could sit side-by-side with the lithographic print.” “The piece is exceptional and shows how far along flexo has come,” said Bob Waddington, general manager, UVitec Printing Ink. “The skin tones are amazing.” And the skin tones are important on this piece, because this is a wine label which garners a famous photo of Marilyn

Plate mounting demands accuracy, and today’s plate mounting equipment and tapes help operators achieve just that. With available state-of-the-art equipment, what was once a painstaking manual process can now be done with computers and machines. According to Paul Zeinert, product manager, Anderson & Vreeland, the biggest change in plate mounting procedures has been “doing things automatically and using computers to make it repeatable.” These advances lend themselves to the pinnacle of plate mounting—a precisely, consistently, and easily mounted plate. In view of today’s plate mounting tapes, operators are now better equipped than ever to mount, demount, and reposition plates for accurate positioning. Some tapes

CHESTERFIELD, Mo.—Space is filling up fast for the Mark Andy Educator Series Seminar, Film Labels Done Right on July 12, 2006 at their headquarters in Chesterfield, Missouri. The event focuses on film, film label and other filmic applications for narrow web! This is a developing market, and each attendee will learn from a variety of critical supply and technology resources such as Klockner Films, Xsys Ink, Flexographic Resources and more! The seminar will address the various learning curves in making the transition from traditional pressure sensitive labels into prime film markets. Sessions will help alleviate the hurdles and challenges converters have when

By definition, “standards” is “fulfilling specific requirements as established by an authority, law, rule, custom, etc.; a guiding principle.” However, I can state without equivocation that sometimes the pursuit of standards can literally go to the dogs. When discussing this matter with TAGSYS’ Chief Technology Officer, Alastair McArthur, he instantly recalled his experience with his children’s pet bulldog, Oscar. It seems Oscar has had an encounter of the closest kind with RFID. As an unsuspecting pup, the French bulldog was injected with an RFID tag. The use of RFID for the identification of companion animals, referred to as micro-chipping, is a very mature

J HEWLETT-PACKARD www.hp.com/go/DPS-Industrial Model Colors Web Width (in.) Image Width (in.) Indigo ws4000 4-6 13 12 Write 464 on Reader Service Form, See Ad p. 33 J Mark Andy Visit www.markandy.com Model Web Width (in.) Colors DT Series 13 N/A Write 465 on Reader Service Form, See Ad p. 35 and 65 Nilpeter Inc. Visit www.nilpeter.com Model Colors Width (in.) Speed (fpm) DL3300 5 13 45 Write 466 on Reader Service Form Xeikon America

ABETOS/INFLEXCO, S.A. Visit www.intermach.com Model Print Width (in.) Colors Self-adhesive flexo presses Power 7, 10 4, 6 Leader 7, 10 2, 3, 4 SUPER Power 16-6 16 6 Flexo central impression presses Master 400 16, 24 4, 6 Junior 16, 24 4, 6 Write 471 on Reader Service Form J AQUAFLEX Visit www.aquaflex.com Model Web Width (in.) Max. Printing Width (in.) Speed (fpm) ELS Servo 10,13 10,13 750 Instaprep 10,13 10,13 500 LX 26 13,16,18,20,24,26 500 FPC Servo 20-32 32 1,000 Write 472 on Reader Service Form, See Ad p.46 Bell-Mark Visit www.bell-mark.com Model Width Repeat Speed (fpm) 1234 HS-FD 4˝ 12˝ 275 1238 HS FD 8˝ 12˝ 275 1834 HS FD 4˝ 18˝ 375 18310 HS FD 10˝ 18˝ 375

It’s a virtual war out there and converters are on the front lines. Striving to stay one step ahead of the competition, converters need to know they have a support system that they can seek out and use for appealing product innovations, especially when it comes to the building blocks of the printing world—printing presses. Narrow-web press manufacturers are listening closely to what printers are asking for, and are developing new and better equipment all the time. To do this well, they must know what converters are demanding from their presses. Mac Rosenbaum, vice president, sales and marketing, Aquaflex (A division of F.L. Smithe

Combining in-line processes provides the key to distinctive products. COMBINING A VARIETY of processes in package-printing applications is being seen more and more often. This does not mean that it's becoming routine—by any sense of the imagination—just more popular. Commenting on last year's TLMI Awards Competition, Ray Mackura, technical marketing manager for Avery Dennison, Fasson Roll North America and a judge in the competition, said, "The use of combination printing is becoming quite common, and printers are getting really good at it." The reason why combination printing is not routine (and hopefully, will never reach such a stagnant milestone) is that it provides a