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Article: Color matching greener grades: water-based inks, stock selection and customer proofing steps become best practices for a label printer.(PAPERWATCH)
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- Graphic Arts Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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A diversified label producer was challenged by new business from a wine industry cooperative. The project entailed short-run labels using water-based flexographic inks on uncoated premium papers--with precise color. While the customer didn't specify a specific component of the system, it demanded environmentally friendly labels.
Having worked predominantly on offset and flexo presses with UV inks over the past decade, the staff was accustomed to running high brightness, super-smooth coated premium paper rolls for relatively long UV runs, which are basically a breeze for color matching. They were well aware of the benefits of water-based ink application on any ...