Lewis Label

FORT WORTH, Texas—Lewis Label Products installed an Esko CDI 2530 digital plate imager on July 18. Training and calibration is complete and digital plates are being produced and used for all flexographic presses. The transition of rotary letterpress plates to digital plates will begin next month. Digital plate imagers are a breakthrough technology for pressure sensitive label and flexible packaging converters. The laser imaging technology enables Lewis Label to print higher quality images and higher line screens with more consistency and faster turn around. The acquisition of the CDI 2530 completes Lewis Label’s transition to an all digital prepress workflow that

Narrow-web letterpress, screen, and gravure pressmakers and printers show off their specialties and gauge the competition. by Susan Friedman Letterpress: quality still rules Letterpress hasn't lost its high-end lustre, but its marketshare may be vulnerable to claims of improved quality at less cost by other processes—particularly flexo. "For years we've been rotary letterpress, and flexo has been 10 paces behind," says George Noah, V.P. at Lewis Label Products. "Now flexo is one pace behind, and nine out of 10 buyers can't tell the difference." Noah estimates Lewis Label now prints 50 percent of its work with rotary letterpress—a level that was formerly as high