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Flexographic Press Operator
NFI Corp. wants to add an enthusiastic press operator to our team! This role is integral in setup, breakdown, maintenance, troubleshooting, operating, and cleaning of our Webtron, Nilpeter, and Allied presses. The goal is to ensure a high level of excellence with efficiency, safety, and dependability
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Recent Articles:
- The Key to Controlling Color on Flexible Film
- Behind the Scenes of Flexographic Image Carrier Production
- How Temperature & Humidity Can Make a Difference in Your Print Room
- Optimizing Solids
- Screening Technology: Another Piece in the Platemaking Puzzle
- How Modern Glue Set Technology is Changing Corrugated
- Why You Need to be Auditing Your Press Room
- Insights to the Corrugated Market
- How Technology Drives Print Quality Performance
- How to Choose the Right Doctor Blade for Corrugated Applications
- 5 things to look for when choosing the ink supply and washing system for your printing press
- M System from MacDermid: The Art of Liquid
- Getting it right on Corrugated board: Keep it clean!
- 4 Ways E-Commerce Product Content Drives Sales Growth
- The Easiest Way to Longer Anilox Roll Life
- CleanPrint: The Future of Flexographic Platemaking
- Corrugated Post-Print Best Practices
- Flexo vs Other Printing Methods
- Clean and in Balance with the Environment
- 6 guide lines to increase the lifetime of your anilox
- Quality Control in Flexo Platemaking
- Clean Print: The Details
All Printing Resources (APR) Articles
- Balance Your Dryers - Minimize Dirty Print
- TSG Research Project: High Temperature UVA Lamp Degradation
- The Life Expectancy of Plates
- Misunderstanding pH in Water-Based Ink Cleaning
- Temperature Affects Polymerization
- Laser Anilox Roll Cleaning Technology is a Game Changer
- Tools of the Trade: Plate QC
- Mind Your Graphics: Labeling Requirements & Regulations for Package Printing (Part 2:2)
- Ten Things to Know About Flexo End Seals
- 6 Factors of Maintaining Plate Quality
- Are Your Doctor Blades Due for a Checkup?
- Imaging the Possibilities
- Flexo’s Future – Expanded Color Gamut
- Handheld Color Measurement Instruments
- Pressroom Color Management: Taking It to a New Level
- Viscosity & pH Control: Increasing Productivity Through Automation
- Exposure Bulb Tips
- Minimizing Plate Costs: Automatic Plate Cleaners
- Minimizing Plate Costs: Part 2 – Plate Demounting
- Minimizing Plate Costs: Identifying When the Plate is Worn
- Understanding Common Flexo Print Defects, Part 1 - Ghosting
- Understanding Common Flexo Print Defects, Part 2 - Dirty Prints
- Bounce, Gears Marks & Banding: Identify the Cause & Minimize the Cost Series Part 1
- Bounce, Gears Marks & Banding: Identify the Cause & Minimize the Cost Series Part 2
- Bounce, Gear-marks, & Banding Identify the Cause — Minimize the Cost – Part 3 of 3
- RFID-Based Inventory Management System Delivers Efficiencies and Cost Savings by Salmon Creek Media & Marketing
- Calibrating Eurostampa's Flexo Process to G7® Standards Returns Big Dividends by Salmon Creek Media & Marketing
Anderson & Vreeland
Anthem
Apex International
- How Modern Glue Set Technology is Changing Corrugated
- Insights to the Corrugated Market
- Getting it right on Corrugated board: Keep it clean!
- 6 guide lines to increase the lifetime of your anilox
- Getting practical with anilox measurements: Complete process control is key to consistent print quality
- Getting real with measurements: Aiming for constant control and consistency
- Short-Run Flexible Packaging with "Smart Digital Flexo"
- Printing Fixed Palette Through Consistent Ink Transfe
- The Cost of Out-of-Round and Out-of-Parallel Corrugated Glue Rolls
- A Revolutionary Reinvention of Anilox Ink Transfer
- The Corrugated Climate – Where the Industry Is Innovating,
- The Secret to Better Corrugated Board with Less Starch
- The Science Behind Anilox Cleaning and Why You Should Pay Attention
- 10 Reasons Your Anilox Sleeve May Not Mount Properly
- Who You Gonna Call? Ghost Hunting in Flexographic Printing
- 3 Ways Flexographers can Win Over Brand Owners
- The Rise of Pantone Simulation in Flexography
- How to Supercharge Your Water-Based Flexo Inks
- Top Causes of Anilox Scoring & How to Prevent Them
- Three Secrets to Prolonging Anilox Performance
- Cut Print Production Cost & Improve Quality and Consistency
- 3 Tips to Prevent UV Ink Spittings
- Enhancing the Colour Gamut in Fixed-Palette Printing
- Optimizing Fixed Palette: The Future of CMYK
Asahi Photoproducts
- CleanPrint: The Future of Flexographic Platemaking
- Clean and in Balance with the Environment
- Clean Print: The Details
- Clean Print: The Historical Development of the Naming Convention
- Uniflex – A Fixed Color Palette Printing Case Study
- The Value of Fixed Colour Palette Printing
- Who says quality is not a top priority?
- York Repro-Graphic Group on Forefront of Innovation with Limitless Packaging & Fixed Colour Palette Printing
- Big Value, Small Environmental Footprint
- Pinning Technology for Clean Transfer
- Bringing Gravure Quality to Flexo
Cal Poly - Dr. Malcolm Keif & Professor Kevin Cooper
Chicago Tag & Label
Daetwyler Corporation
- Bringing Distillation & Solvent Recovery In House
- Ink Transfer Technology — Dot gain and ink film thickness
- UV Ink Metering: Eliminating Spitting, Blow-by and Inconsistencies on Anilox Presses
- Addressing Metering Challenges of White Inks
- Back Doctoring - Causes and Solutions
- The Simple End Seal
DuPont Articles
Ron Ellis
Esko
Flexo Concepts Articles
- In Safe Hands with Polymer Doctor Blades Part 3: Not the Sharpest Doctor Blade in the Pressroom
- In Safe Hands with Polymer Doctor Blades Part 2: Steel Doctor Blade Risk Management
- In Safe Hands with Polymer Doctor Blades Part 1: Numbers That Add Insults to Doctor Blade Injuries
- Doctor Blade Installation: Correct Angle and Pressure are Needed for Consistent Performance
- New Polymer Doctor Blades are Safe Substitutes for Steel in Flexible Packaging Applications
- Anilox Roll Cleaning Essential to Effective Ink Delivery
- Polyester Containment Blades Win over Steel
- The Evolution of Corrugated Doctor Blades
- Are You Doing Trials or Just Getting Doctor Blade Samples?
- New Polymers Meter Like Steel Doctor Blades
FlexoExchange, LLC
FLXON
Focus Label Machinery Ltd.
- Flexo Printing vs. Offset Printing
- 4 Things You Need To Know About Modern Industrial Printing Machines
- Choosing The Right Anilox For Each Label Printing Application
- What Is Hybrid Printing Technology & What Are The Key Benefits?
- 3 Main Reasons To Upgrade Your Label Printing Equipment
- 4 Mistakes To Avoid When Buying Flexographic Printing Machinery
Harper Corporation Articles
- Proofing Accurate Color Matching - Ink Lab to Press
- Score Lines, Dings, Dents & Corrosion: What's a printer to do?
Heat Technologies, Inc.
IDTechEx
Kocher + Beck Articles
KYMC
- How Temperature & Humidity Can Make a Difference in Your Print Room
- 5 things to look for when choosing the ink supply and washing system for your printing press
- Wide-Web versus Narrow-Web Flexo Printing
- AM Screening vs FM Screening
- Flexographic Plate – Photopolymer or Elastomer?
- Print Defect: Ghosting Troubleshooting 101
- Fail to prepare, prepare to fail!
- New Breakthroughs in Electron Beam Ink Technology for Flexible Packaging
Luminite
- Behind the Scenes of Flexographic Image Carrier Production
- Flexo vs Other Printing Methods
- Flexo Printing on Corrugated
- How the Pressroom Climate Affects Flexo Inks & Press Efficiency
- Feathering: A Pressure-Packed Flexo Printing Defect (with Other Causes)
MacDermid Articles
- Screening Technology: Another Piece in the Platemaking Puzzle
- M System from MacDermid: The Art of Liquid
- Corrugated Post-Print Best Practices
- Quality Control in Flexo Platemaking
- Regulatory Questions? MGS has the answers
- An EPIC® Journey
- The Changing World of Post Print Corrugated
- Let's Talk About Flexo Plates
- The Evolution of Corrugated Print Reproduction
- Optimize Performance
- How to Make Direct Print Corrugated Look Good
Mark Andy
Matthew Marking Systems
Miraclon Articles
- Flexo is dead. Long live Flexo!
- For Genuine Sustainability, Add a “4th P” to Your Bottom Line
- Understanding Why Flexo is Winning Converts
- How to measure flexo print contrast
- KODAK FLEXCEL NX System - A Ten Year Journey
- Dr. John Writes: A Blast from the Past – Flexo Print Fault Guides from the ’90s
- Are you experiencing Pin-holing and Production Pitfalls? Part 2
- Are you experiencing Pin-holing and Production Pitfalls? Part I
- Dr. John Writes: How to Make Your Older Press More Productive and Profitable
- Dr. John Writes: The Advantages of Open Standards in Packaging
- Dr. John Writes: Digital Printing – Friend Or Foe For Flexo Printers?
- Dr. John Writes: Do You Accept Things as “NORMAL” in Flexo that You Should NOT Accept Any More?
- Dr John Writes: FFTA Success in Baltimore, With The Strongest Attendance In Years!
- Dr. John Writes: The Plates are the Brains of Flexo on Press!
- Dr. John Writes – Why In The Flexo World Do You Care About: Is 7-Color Process the Right Direction for Brands in Flexo?
- Dr. John Writes – Why in the World of Flexo? Introducing a New Series
Pamarco Articles
- Why You Need to be Auditing Your Press Room
- How to Choose the Right Doctor Blade for Corrugated Applications
- The Easiest Way to Longer Anilox Roll Life
- Accurately match colors off press, a hand proofer is the tool
- Selecting the Correct Press Components for Increased Productivity
- Lower Your Line Screen and Cell Volume for Better Anilox Performance!
- Care, monitoring and proper maintenance of your anilox will go a long way in improving your plant’s bottom line
- Flesh tones, why attention to detail in engravings for preprint matters to you
- How to find your print consistency
- Best Practice Recommendations for Anilox Rolls
- The Secret to Print Consistency in Flexo
- Pamarco’s Cleaning Plate: Convenience without the Fee
- Wasted Resources: How to Avoid Volume Inefficiency
- Accurately match colors off press, a hand proofer is the tool
- Optimize Performance
- Anilox metrics translate into consistent print metrics
- How to Achieve Maximum Start Up Efficiency
- The Unfortunate Groove: Score Lines and How to Avoid Them
- How to Make Direct Print Corrugated Look Good
- Increase Press Speed!
- How to Care for Your Anilox Sleeves, Part 1
- Don’t compromise, optimize your Anilox selection!
- Lower Your Anilox Line Screen and Cell Volume for Better Performance!
- Plugged Cells?
- Standardisation of Ink Transfer for Converting Corrugated Paper Board
- Unambiguous Conclusions of the EFlo Extended Cell Shape Performance
- The Evrollution of EFlo-HD™ Anilox Technology for HD Printing
Paper Converting Machine Company
Projeto Pack Articles
- Especial Tintas e Solventes (Special Inks and Solvents)
- Five Problems We Must Tackle in 2017 to Save Our Market
Rapt Creative
- Top Five Considerations for Choosing Between Cold Foils & Hot Foils by Christine Takacs
RK Print Coat Instruments Ltd
- UV Refresher
- Troubleshooting: Colour Consistency
- Troubleshooting Part 2: Coating/Laminating
- Corrugated for Retail-Ready Packaging & the Technical Problems that may Arise when Flexo Printing
- Printing Corrugated Without Pressure
- Coating/Laminating - Stress Free
- "Notice Me" Packaging in the Coffee Aisle
Rogers Corporation
Roland DGA Articles
- How UV-LED Inkjet Technology is Increasing Profits for Flexographic Printers – Part 1
- How UV-LED Inkjet Technology is Increasing Profits for Flexographic Printers – Part 2
- How UV-LED Inkjet Technology is Increasing Profits for Flexographic Printers – Part 3
- Three Things You Should Know by Steven Tu
Rotocontrol
Salmon Creek Media & Marketing
- Using Social Media to Engage Customers, Prospects & Partners to Grow Business in the Flexo Industry
- More than Skin Deep, A Case Study
- Hot Diggity Dog! New Packaging for a Timeless Product
- Phantasm! Managing the Flexo Prepress Process
Saueressig GmbH + Co. KG
- RGB Printing Brings Spectacular Visual Possibilities to Packaging
- Keeping It Real: The Package is Your Front-Line Defense Against Counterfeiting
Schawk
- How Technology Drives Print Quality Performance
- Believe in Better Brand Consistency and a Stronger Market Presence
- Digital Content Production: What’s Next?
- How to Avoid the Top 5 Pain Points Associated with Producing Packaging Mock-Ups
- Better Medicine Labels: Get It Right The First Time
- How to Modernize Your Packaging Graphics Management Process From Start To Finish
- Branding By Numbers: Making A Case For Colour KPIs
John Seymour, The Math Guy
- The Heyday of Expanded Gamut Printing Patents
- Expanded gamut - when an idea's time has come addendum
- Expanded gamut - when an idea's time has come
- Is my color process all wonky?
- Is my color process going awry?
- Statistical Process Control of Color Difference Data, Part 1
- Statistical Process Control of Color Difference Data, Part 2
- How many samples do I need?
- How many samples do I need? (with lots of assumptions)
- A Guide to Reflectance Measurement Devices:
- Why does my cyan have the blues?
- Where are my CIELAB Knobs?
SGK
- 4 Ways E-Commerce Product Content Drives Sales Growth
- Content Marketing: What it Means for Brands in 2019
- Marketing Intelligence Management: How You Should Really Think About Marketing Automation
- Driving Culture Change in the Age of Digital Transformation
- Rewriting the Packaging Rulebook: Strategy, Design and Delivery Under One Roof
- How to Start Measuring Content Marketing ROI
- 5 Key Ways for Brands to Own the Digital Shelf
- How to Leverage Your Packaging Artwork to Maximise Your Digital Strateg
- 5 Key Tips for Pharmaceutical Companies Outsourcing Artwork Services for Packaging
- Mobile Transparency: The SmartLabel™ Story
- Beyond Best Practices: How to Win in a Dynamic Market
- Chief Growth Officer: The SGK Perspective On A Critical Development
- The FDA Nutrition Label Update Is Your Opportunity to Gain Competitive Brand Advantage
- Building Graphics Workflows Across Emerging Markets
- Using the Brand Packaging Restage to Fend Off the M&A Beast
- 5 Tips to Help You Match the Right Agency with the Right Creative Job
- The Yellow Brick Road to Continuous Improvement: “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”
- Welcome to the Small Ball Era of Marketing
- Strengthen Brand Equity Through Transparent Label Communications
- 6 Ways to Get Your Branded Materials to Market Faster
- Building a Superior Artwork Process to Strengthen Your Brand
- Packaging Regulations: Will You Master the Changes and Benefit?
- Leverage New Label Regulations to Optimize E-Commerce Content
SGS International
Smither-Pira
Sonic Solutions Articles
- Life Cycle of a Cleaning System
- What do I do with my "old" cleaning solution?
- How Long Will My Cleaning Solution Last?
- Line Counts
- When Dirty Rolls Get Clean
Sun Chemical Corporation Articles
Techkon
X-Rite Pantone
- Tolerancing Part 3: Color Space vs. Color Tolerance
- Tolerancing Part 2: The Role of Light
- Tolerancing Part 1: The History of Color Analysis
- 5 Tools You Need to Print Extended Gamut
- Why Your Color Might Be Wrong on Press: Environment
- Why Your Color Might be Wrong on Press: Standards & Ink
- Improving Color Across Suppliers
- Looking for increased productivity on press?
- Key Steps in a Color-Managed Workflow
- Choosing the Right Spectrophotometer for Metallic Packaging,
- 2017 Trends for Printing, Packaging & Graphic Design
- Manufacturing Trends to Watch in 2017
- Staying Current with Standards in Print and Packaging
- Color Accuracy and Consistency: A Balancing Act
- Color Evaluation Pitfalls in Flexo Applications
Zecher
FlexoGlobal on SlideShare:
- Latest Developments in Flexo Plate Solutions for Corrugated Printing
- Plate Handling: Best Practices for the Plate Room & Beyond
- Doctor Blade Metering
- New Technologies Revolutionizing Packaging Prototypes and Comps
- Improving Flexographic Ink & Coating Adhesion
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