Steve Gilbertson

ST. CHARLES, Ill.—Kammann Machines, Inc. is celebrating its 30th anniversary of continued operations in North America. The company was incorporated in 1978 to support the heavy sales activity of its parent company, Werner Kammann Maschinenfabrik in Germany. The parent company was founded in 1955 and introduced its printing equipment solutions to the U.S. market in the 1960s. At its inception in 1978, Kammann began to fill the industry need for decorating machines for cosmetics and hollowware as well as the plastic bottle industry. The company has continued to provide automatic screen printing machines for three-dimensional articles, including syringes, candles, oil filters, pistons, lighters, spark

ST. CHARLES, Ill.—This year, Kammann Machines, Inc. is celebrating its 30th anniversary of continued operations in North America. The company was incorporated in 1978 to support the heavy sales activity of its parent company, Werner Kammann Maschinenfabrik in Germany. The parent company was founded in 1955 and introduced its printing equipment solutions to the U.S. market in the 1960s. At its inception in 1978, Kammann began to fill the industry need for decorating machines for cosmetics and hollowware as well as the plastic bottle industry. The company has continued to provide automatic screen printing machines for three-dimensional articles, including syringes, candles, oil filters, pistons,

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