Why use CTV “right away” in flexography
How the new CTV method for colour tone value measurement works and what are its advantages in the flexo process.Read my article that was published on Converting magazine.
How does flexographic printing work?
Have you ever wondered how the principle behind flexographic printing works?Perhaps this explanation could be useful…
Iron wire: “There is no practice without theory”
These reflections arose a few months ago, while traveling back from FlexoDay South event of Atif, as I was telling colleagues-friends about my “adventure” in Africa. Out of Africa I arrived in Uganda in March 1987, almost fresh out of high school, involved as a volunteer in an Italian technical cooperation project in developing countries. …
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Discover the new Natural Plate Compensation Curves for flexography
Natural Plate Compensation (NPC) curves are a new and simplified method designed to determine and apply plate compensation curves within any flexographic workflow. This method provides smooth transitions and equidistant tone values directly within the compensation curves by making best use of measurements according to ISO 20654:2017 – Graphic technology – Measurement and calculation of …
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The unbearable sustainability of flexography
The sustainability of a printed package doesn’t depend only on the type of substrate used: prepress activities and printing conditions play an important role too. In this article, published on Converting magazine, I tried to give some indications to achieve very significant savings in the flexographic process. You can download the full article with English …
Ghost images in flexo printing
The appearance of ghost images in printing is a brain teaser for many flexographic press operators.Can you recognize the different types of ghosting?Do you know the reason of the most common ghosting defects?Take a look at this video to know more.
Scoring lines on anilox rolls
What is one of the worst problems that can happen in the flexo pressroom?One anilox roll damaged by scoring lines means stopping a production or accepting a print defect.Why do these scoring lines occur on the anilox surface?What happens in printing?What can we do to prevent this problem?I gathered some ideas in this video pill, …
It’s time to change the way we measure dot percentage!
Measurement is the basis of process control. The measurement of dot area coverage or dot percentage is fundamental to define the characteristics of our printing system, to calculate compensations of tonal values for plate making and, finally, to control the production.In 2017, a new method for the calculation of dot area percentage was introduced. ISO …
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What is the print sequence of your inks?
In what sequence do you print your inks?Light to dark? Dark to light? And why? In this video pill I try to give some hopefully useful information for flexographic printers.
Oh no… Streaks again!
Have you ever experienced any problems like streaks, gearmarks, banding, bouncing and the like?In this short video I try to explain some of the most common causes at the origin of these defects in flexographic printing.