Where Materials and Minds Meet

Coating and laminating in-line takes a few imaginative turns.

By Susan Friedman

For package printers, the basic equation for in-line coating and laminating installations—flexographic printing plus flexible packaging—remains the same. At the same time, though, active "additions" for coating and laminating are on tap: more applications, more accuracy and ease-of-use, and, likely, more creative retrofits.