Print process conversion to flexo, fixed-color palette printing, improved efficiencies in print production workflow and sustainable print observed as key trends in the flexo printing industry

Fifth Pinnacle InterTech Award underscores Miraclon’s commitment to innovation and delivering game-changing flexo technology to the packaging industry

Flexográfico, a cutting-edge prepress provider in the Spanish flexo market, has incorporated a KODAK FLEXCEL NX Wide 5080 System from Miraclon to gain a foothold in the premium packaging sector. This new acquisition is in line with its ambitions to become a market leader by adopting innovative working methods, investing in new, more modern and […]

Neuefeind GmbH of Ochtendung, Germany, is a provider of technology services encompassing all aspects of the flexographic packaging process, far in excess merely of prepress and platemaking. The family-run firm employs 20 specialists, and in terms of turnover its business divides into roughly 60% direct printing on corrugated board, 20% preprint corrugated and 20% flexible […]

With more than 35 years’ experience in the packaging printing industry, Chemence Graphics, a leader in flexo prepress solutions, pioneered the use of a KODAK FLEXCEL NX Wide 4260 CTP System in the Spanish market several years ago. The company has now decided to enlarge the format of the laminator and installed a KODAK FLEXCEL […]

With facilities near Salerno and Milan in Italy, Mavigrafica has become known for its innovative solutions as a prepress service provider to the Italian flexo printing sector since it was founded in 1997. In 2008, Mavigrafica identified Kodak as the right technology partner to help it differentiate itself in the flexo plates sector and purchased the first KODAK FLEXCEL NX System in Italy. Today it boasts one Kodak ThermoFlex Wide and three FLEXCEL NX Wide 5080 Systems.

Flexo prepress provider Cromograf was seen as a graphics pioneer in Uruguay when it was established in 1947. Fast forward a few decades and it proved to be an unstoppable force in 1999 as it took on the photopolymer market when Miguel Angel Acosta came on board, his vision revolutionizing the traditional approach to photomechanics in Uruguay and Latin America. Under his management, Cromograf was the first in Latin America to acquire the KODAK FLEXCEL NX Mid system from Miraclon, and today his legacy lives on with his daughter, Alejandra Acosta Salati, who has taken over the reins.

“I think flexo is both the most challenging industry, and the most rewarding. The more you put in, the greater the benefits.” For Shyam Sundar, partner at Hyderabad-based flexo prepress specialist NS Digital Flexo, meeting the challenges — and helping customers reap the benefits — started in March 2020, when the company opened for business […]

A year after the KODAK FLEXCEL NX Ultra Solution went into production at Dion Label Printing, John Dion has a very positive verdict on the solvent- and VOC-free flexo plate making solution. “We’re wildly satisfied!”, says the co-president of the Westfield MA-based producer of custom high-quality labels and packaging. “We expected good things of the […]

Controlling unwanted ink spread creates wider operating window, reducing unscheduled press stops and maximizing efficiency for flexible packaging printers

Renovations at the Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H) Technology Center in Lengerich, Germany, have been completed, and included moving their in-house prepress technology – a KODAK FLEXCEL NX Ultra Solution from Miraclon – to a brand-new plate room for quicker and easier accessibility. Providing a fast and solvent-free and VOC-free option to predictable, consistent and top-quality […]

Zecher GmbH, manufacturer of anilox rollers for the printing and coating industry headquartered in Paderborn, Germany, successfully completed a project to demonstrate how consistent, high quality results can be achieved with a variety of packaging applications that are produced on flexo using CMYK process colours and advanced technologies. The project, executed in cooperation with a […]