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Engineered Better Anilox Sleeves and Rollers Crafted Specifically For Your Budget, Your Press, Your Job.
Winners Platinum Lorytex, Uruguay
Lorytex became the first-ever GFIA Platinum winner. Transforming flexible packaging that was previously gravure printed in China to local flexo production, the entry demonstrated cooperation between Lorytex, the converter and the brand to overcome several techni- cal challenges and implement an ECG workflow. Gold Cromograf & Strong SA, Uruguay (Joint Entry) The four-color Expanded Color Gamut (ECG) work- flow implemented by Cromograf and Strong delivers considerable savings in plates,mounting tapes, special inks and solvents, as well as faster press set-up.The en- try also showed design innovations, including moving
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on your team. For more than 35 years our success has been built on engineering a competitive edge for exo printers. ARC International focuses on giving you better: Better control. Better options. Better margins. Whether you prefer berglass or carbon ber anilox sleeves fromour High Graphics TM division, you can be sure it will be crafted to exacting OEMspecs. Durable and lightweight as well as corrosion and damage resistant, your sleevewill be precision ground and t perfectly with your mandrel, whether steel or carbon ber. ARC’s plasma coating provides an excellent engraving surface for a full array of laser engraved line counts and volumes.
press marks inside the print; the resulting 1% reduc- tion in substrate consumption translates into signifi- cant cost savings. U. Günther GmbH & Flexo-Service Cl. Jaehde GmbH, Germany (Joint Entry) U. Günther’s Impulse Screen technology and FLEX- CEL NX Plates enable older flexo presses and aniloxes to print at higher standard resolutions — up to 269 lpi instead of 150 lpi — matching, and often exceed- ing, the results possible with gravure. Other benefits recorded include resolution two times finer than gravure; ink savings of up to 15 percent per job; and speed increases of up to 25 percent per run.
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This gravure to flexo conversion highlights what is possible when the converter and brand work together closely.The three jobs entered are all examples of Ex- panded Color Gamut (ECG) projects. Numex Blocks India Ltd The customer wanted to explore a ‘direct-to-tube’ printing workflow to remove the variability in recy- cling and eliminate a manufacturing step.As most jobs were eight colors, Numex had detailed discussions
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