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Article: Narrow web offset: offset offers another printing option for converters and their customers to evaluate. The process differs from flexo, often providing a quality that can be useful in image conscious industries.
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- Label & Narrow Web
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- January 1, 2007
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Offset and flexographic printing are both used for producing labels, but in different ways. Although flexo is more common among narrow web converters, offset has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. One big advantage is that offset quality is often superior to that of flexo, which becomes increasingly desirable in a marketplace that strives to offer consumers a plethora of choices.
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Offset uses a more complex system for transferring ink to the substrate: a long ink train made up of many rollers. The plates in offset are positives of the desired images instead of negatives as in flexo. With offset, the roller containing the ...