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Article: Offset printers have their eye on flexo: print buyers, reports our columnist, are encouraging offset shops to acquire flexographic printing equipment. At issue? Customer service.(Reality Check)
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- January 1, 2004
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You know what they say: If you can't beat them, join them. If offset is having a tough time competing against flexo, then go flexo. And they are. This is the number one growth area that I see in the flexo industry: offset companies getting into flexo. Now I am a full believer that there is plenty of work to go around. After all, the printing and packaging industry is one of the largest in the country, and flexo currently is doing way less than it will be doing over the next five years.
There is no doubt that flexo is becoming the dominant player in the printing and packaging industry, and I am here to tell you that offset companies have taken notice. The majority ...