Dan Chamley

Mid-web presses buy printers a ticket into a wider arena of end-use markets, while enhancing existing capabilities. by Jessica Millward, Associate Editor THOUGH NOT THE ingenue of the press world it was a few years ago, the mid-web press still attracts its fair share of attention as a "new kid" of printing technology. Combining many of the best features of both narrow- and wide-web technology, the move to mid-web has expanded the product portfolios of several package printers. Board beginnings In the case of flexographic wide-web converter Plastic Packaging, Inc. (PPI), headquartered in Hickory, NC, the company's desire to enter the lightweight