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FTA Announces Call for Entries in 2025 Award Competitions

BOHEMIA, NY— The Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) is excited to call for entries for the 2025 editions of its esteemed annual awards competitions, which shine a spotlight on excellence, innovation and sustainability within the flexographic printing/packaging industry. The FTA Excellence in Flexography Awards recognize high-quality and consistent flexographic printing, and the printers who produce it. […]

FLEXCEL NX Ultra 42 Solution Delivers Powerful Performance for PPC Flex

PAYSON, UT—At PPC Flex the verdict is in on a year’s beta-testing of the new FLEXCEL NX Ultra 42 Solution from Miraclon, and it’s very positive. Simmy Coscia, PPC’s director of prepress & design, is delighted with “the consistency, stability and productivity” of the larger-format addition to the FLEXCEL NX Ultra VOC-free and solvent-free water […]

Continuous Improvement Creates & Controls Cost-Cutting Opportunities at Press

Since the process of flexographic printing was conceived, an increasing demand for consistency, print quality and creative design elements has led to the application of continuous improvement across all channels. Sophisticated point-of-sale packaging, or labeling, has been a key driver for the success, thanks to flexography’s proven posture. Simply put, it’s less expensive and more […]

Optimize Ink & Substrate

Substrates and the substantial benefits they bring to highly specialized print processes, like flexography, are not to be ignored, taken for granted or otherwise dismissed. Optimizing ink to substrate is essential in successful printing. Great attributes of a substrate, particularly plastic packaging, merit mention: Plastic packaging plays a key role in food freshness and preservation, […]

Tension’s History of Growth & Award-Winning Products

Tension Corp has a long history, and over the years has adapted to meet customers’ needs and expanded into new markets. In fact, through most of Tension’s history it has continued to diversify and grow. It all began with Berkowitz & Company Printers, the forerunner of Tension, which was founded on March 17, 1886 in […]

In Pursuit of Print Perfection

A Preview of the 2020 FTA Excellence in Flexography Awards Industry experts, FTA Excellence in Flexography Awards Committee members and Association staff gathered Jan. 25-27 at the Hyatt Regency Long Island for the judging of the 2020 FTA Excellence in Flexography Awards. There were hundreds of entries to evaluate—from labels to boxes, envelopes to napkins, […]