From the wheel to the space shuttle
1 May 2025
Paul Teachout of Harper Corporation of America stepped up last summer as chair of the Flexographic Technical Association’s Board of Directors. He tells Andy Knaggs…
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Print moves into a new era with AI
25 April 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a trending “buzzword” in the print industry. Taylor Sinclair takes an in-depth look at some of the applications of AI within…
Flexo colour by numbers
21 April 2025
Matching brand colours is a fundamental task for most flexo printers, and there are tools and approaches that can take the subjectivity out of colour…
The explosive rise of NC-free
15 April 2025
Nitrocellulose has long been used in the manufacture of some solvent inks for flexo printing. However, concerns over its compatibility with mechanical recycling processes are…
ProAmpac takes the top prize
10 March 2025
A flexible packaging job for beef dripping Yorkshire puddings had the FlexoTech Awards judges salivating over its print and repro quality in 2024, seeing ProAmpac…
Taking the flexible approach
7 March 2025
There may only be a matter of inches in web width between narrow and mid-web flexo technologies, but the leap it enables from label to…
No time like the present
4 March 2025
Ian Schofield has enjoyed a busy consultancy life since taking semi-retirement in 2019. He reflects on the impact of sustainability on the packaging sector and…
Making the work flow
2 January 2025
As the industry moves forward, it will be to software, not printing systems, that print businesses will look for enhanced productivity.
Finding flexo’s future talent
24 December 2024
The Flexographic Industry Association UK (FIA) created the Shadow Board in February 2023, giving it a mission to bring more young voices to the flexo…
Strong show for flexo in Chicago
29 November 2024
There were more than 12,000 attendees to Labelexpo Americas in September, with international attendance up by 33% on the previous edition. Andy Knaggs hopped across…
Inks for food packaging: navigating a complex field
7 November 2024
The right inks with the right substrates and with adherence to high operational and printing standards – there is much to consider when working in…
Big – and very, very clever
1 November 2024
Wide web CI presses are among the biggest beasts prowling the flexo world, but as Sean Smyth writes, they are highly sophisticated pieces of technology…
There’s more to mounting
16 July 2024
While automation has been a key driving factor in the development of plate mounting systems, it is not necessarily the be-all and end-all of what…
A meeting of modern and future flexo
10 July 2024
Drupa 2024 is in the history books and will be remembered as a noteworthy milestone for those interested in flexo. Sean Smyth walked the halls…
Preaching to the digitally converted
22 April 2024
Development of digital converting systems has been stepped up to meet the increased capabilities of the latest digital presses, and there are options for different…