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Graphic Specifications - Film Packaging Tools & Resources. Flexographic Print Guidelines Download PDF of Graphics Specifications Presses Two ten-color PCMC (Paper Converting Machine Company) flexographic presses Type and line size Minimum type size (in comparison to Helvetica typeface) Positive: 4 point Regular [.005"] (minimize horizontal scaling and condensed type) Reverse: 6 point Bold [.012"] (no condensed or horizontally scaled type) Minimum line size Positive: .005 inch (.3603 point) Reverse: with machine direction: .0139 inch (1 point); against machine direction: .01695 inch (1.25 point) Please do not reverse type out of process areas without a minimum .0139 inch (1 point) outline.

Graphic Specifications - Film Packaging Tools & Resources

For reversed or small sized type: a non-condensed, sans-serif typeface is recommended. Trap size Standard color to color trap size: .0156 inch (1/64" or 1.1232 point) [minimum trap size: .010"] Minimum key line (holding line): .0139 inch (1 point)(When using the minimum key line [holding line] of 1pt., the chance of misregistration is greater.) Vignette range. Marvin's Corner: Formating and Layout. Marvin's Corner: Printing 101. Marvin's Corner: Offset Lithography. Offset printing is a technique that's based on the old adage, "oil and water don't mix.

Marvin's Corner: Offset Lithography

" It is used for almost all printing on paper, including newspapers, magazines, brochures, etc. The paper products that are inserted into CD jewel cases are printed using the offset technique, as are almost all alternative cardboard packaging materials. Step 1 - Platemaking A flexible flat plate is covered with a photosensitive chemical. Light is projected through the negative film onto the plate, producing a positive "image area" once the plate is developed. Step 2 - Wetting The flexible plate is wrapped around a cylinder. Step 3 - Inking A thin, even coating of oil-based ink is transferred onto the plate cylinder via the "ink rollers. " Step 4 - Offsetting The actual plate cylinder does not come into direct contact with the paper; there is one last intermediate step in which a "rubber blanket" receives the ink from the plate cylinder. Step 5 - Printing Step 6 - Repeat steps 1-5 for each additional color.

Www.era.eu.org/02/downloads/ERA_apc06_dreher.pdf. New printing process, desiccating film also win in flexiblesWinning silver awards for technical innovation in the Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards are a 360-deg printing process for shrink film, a film - 2004-03-01 07:00:00. -- Packaging Digest, 3/1/2004 2:00:00 AM Printing shrink-pack film 'in the round' Taking the conventional shrink bag to new technological dimensions, Curwood wins again with a new way to print clear shrink film 360 deg that can make even the most everyday food products look uncommonly eye-catching. Introduced in October, 2003, the Clear-Tite® Surround™ shrink bag with an EZ Peel® opening feature grabbed a silver award in technical innovation for the patent-pending Surround printing process.

Curwood explains that traditional shrink bags are printed on one side of a film tube that is then flipped back through the press and printed on the back side. This provides a two-side-printed, finished package. The printed film is then fabricated off-line into a Surround seamed bag. Curwood says the one-side-printing process is an industry first in the shrink-bag market. Curwood's Centerville, IA, facility flexo-prints the material in up to eight colors and makes it into bags. . Talkback Related Content.