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Aqueous Plate Technology: “Green,” “Clean,” Fast and VOC Free

A superior-quality, process-free printing plate—or at the minimum, an aqueous process plate—has been a goal for printers since the days of hand-engraved plates. Their hope: streamline the plate making process. High-performance aqueous plate processing finds its roots in a 1948 Kodak patent, which serves as the foundation of photopolymer imaging. While offset plates have progressed, […]

FQC/SWG Updates: Project Participants Needed & Recently Completed Ballots

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Who can volunteer to be on an FQC project? You can! Each project is a little different and the team members may differ, based on those varying needs. It is the responsibility of the leader to determine what skill sets are needed for success. FQC is chartered to provide the industry with a better understanding […]

The Printer Perspective on Forum 2019’s “A Screening of Screening” Print Jobs

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Three jobs, three consecutive days; same press, same crew, same ink, same substrate, same plate mounting tape—fair, consistent and equal conditions had to be maintained in readying each job for public peer review at FTA’s Forum 2019. A daunting task? Perhaps for some. Interflex Group in Merrill, WI, presented with the potential assignment, answered affirmatively […]