Consumables-Ink - Conventional Flexographic

Amid the focus on reducing packaging environmental impact, one crucial aspect seems to have been overlooked: the impact of printing inks.

As converters and printers everywhere strive to meet the industry standard for food safety and packaging requirements in a very complex regulatory environment, label printers are tasked with providing labels that follow ink migration limits — after all, ingredients in some inks are known harmful substances.

Packaging Impressions catches up with Dennis Sweet, VP of narrow web tag & label and sheetfed, at Sun Chemical to continue our conversation about sustainable narrow web printing. Watch the video to learn more about renewable inks, adhesion, and ink dispensing technology.

Taking place at PRINTING United Expo, INX will feature premium UV Curable alternative inks, environmentally friendly inks, and more.

ACTEGA will bring its latest ranges of high-quality, product-enhancing inks and coatings to Labelexpo Americas 2022.

Primera announced new, optional CMY+ Ultra Black Ink Cartridges for its LX600, LX610, and LX910 color label printers.

Packaging Personified is expanding with a new Koenig & Bauer flexographic press to provide more capacity and innovation for customers.

Clear Film needed to expand its capacity & modernize its pressroom so it invested in a Koenig & Bauer Evo XC Max Mod 127.

Bak Gravür invested in Esko CDI Crystal technology to complete its platemaking ecosystem at its new specialist prepress facility.

New UV-flexo coatings are recognized by The Association of Plastic Recyclers to comply with critical guidance for PET packaging.