Flexo Quick to Learn Advantages of CTP

This month, packagePRINTING spoke with Vanover to get a handle on digital flexo and the growing trend among commercial printers to enter into the package-printing market.

pP: Is computer-to-plate a mainstream technology in the flexographic world?

Vanover: From an overall perspective, CTP is certainly mainstream in the offset world. It's not new technology. In flexography, CTP has been around just as long, but probably has no more than 15 percent market penetration.