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Core Skill A
Flexo Industry Overview Part 2
Question | Answer |
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What is the revenue generated in 200 for the North America Packaging Industry | $108 Billion |
What was the estimated growth in 2001 for the flexo market share in the printing industry as a whole? | 6% |
What was the flexo market share for the packaging industry only? | 72-73% |
In Flexography we know that there are four main press configurations, serving the wide-web segment of flexographic industry there are presses available in three configurations, what are they? | Stack, Central Impression, In-Line |
Of these three press configurations you identified, how are the print stations configured for each one? | Stack - Print stations on top of each other, equipped with own impression cylinder Inline - Print stations in a row and with their own impression cylinder Central Impression - Print stations on top of each other and share a common impression cylinder |
Narrow Web presses most commonly have a web width of less than 20 inches. Narrow web flexography is also characterized as rotary process with multiple inline converting functions. What are some of those functions. | Variable print or repeat length, die-cutting, slitting and laminating. |
With corrugated printing, what is pre-printing and post-printing. | Pre printing is when the top liner is previously printed on a wide web press, sometimes using a different print process. Post printing is when the already made corrugated board is printed. This is the only sheetfed flexo process. |
Why would a customer want to pre-print a product vs a post-print product? | Quality |
What is another name for the corrugated industry? | The "brown box" industry |
In flexography what are the four main press configurations serving the narrow web segment? | CI, Stack, Inline, and Platform |