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Tag/paperboard suppliers and converters air game plans for managing printing differences among surfaces, calipers and chemistries. By Susan Friedman Put the same tag or paperboard substrate through several different print processes, and the only thing that's likely to change is image quality. The most pronounced differences in the performance of these substrates on-press arise across the categories of surface, thickness and formulation. Coatings, synthetics lead tag issues A high degree of performance diversity can be found between coated anduncoated tag stocks, explains Glen Payton, Product Manager, Fraser Papers. "Coated tag stocks are best used for very high quality four-color process printing with line screens