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See LENSTAR FLEXO at Pacur’s Booth #531 – Info*Flex Show Orlando, FL
Orlando, May 4, 2009 — Pacur, the world’s largest extruder of lenticular materials, LENSTAR® Flexo rolled material in stock and ready to ship. Rolls are available immediately in 10-, 13-, 160, and 20-inch widths.
Four different printers have successfully tested the lenticular flexographic material using interlacing technology from Pixalen Studio and Kodak’s Flexcel NX Digital Flexographic System. This combination has achieved outstanding results that exceed any previous efforts in flexographic lenticular printing.
The ability to print on rolled lenticular material is a tremendous development for applications such as labels and product packaging because printing flexographic lenticular is more cost-effective than printing traditional sheet-fed lenticular. Flexographic lenticular lends itself to a wide array of product and promotion application in areas such as food, beverage, personal care, and health care product packaging; magazine covers; promotional items; direct mail pieces; and point-of-purchase displays.
In the current economic climate, producers are finding it more important than ever to differentiate their products on store shelves, said Bruce Hammerbeck, vice president of marketing for Pacur. “Lenticular print adds values and excitement to product packaging. These amazing images would have been cost-prohibitive for most products even just a year ago.” Rolled lens stock allows producers to create these products with high-speed automated systems, which reduces labor and production costs.
Pixalen Studio, a world leader in lenticular prepress technologies, developed Chromalen technology for use exclusively with Lenstar Flexo roll stock. Chromalen eliminates the registration problems of conventional flexographic printing while simultaneously eliminating “refresh” or “parallax shift” in 3-D images. The result is a very clean image with seamless depth.
About Pacur and LENSTAR FLEXO
Pacur is an ISO 9001:2008 registered custom sheet extruder located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Pacur specializes in the extrusion of light-and heavy-gauge polyester, copolyester, and polypropylene resins for a variety of medical, graphic, and other high-end printing and thermoforming applications. For more information about Pacur, visit www.pacur.com <http://www.pacur.com> . For more information about LENSTAR FLEXO material, visit www.lenstarflexo.com .
About Pixalen Studio
Pixalen Studio offers lenticular prepress services to the print industry, including creative design, art production, 2-D to 3-D conversion, interlacing, training, and proofing. Along wit the service business, Pixalen is also pioneering new processes, including Chromalen technology, for the flexographic market. For more information about Pixalen Studio, visit www.pixalenstudio.com.
Kodak and Flexcel NX are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company. Lenstar is a trademark of Eastman Chemical Company. Chromalen is a trademark of Pixalen Studio.
Source: Pacur Press Release
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