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INK DISPENSING Mix to Match Uniflexo boosts label quality consistency and productivity with a Colorsat Match ink dispenser from GSE Dispensing. Edited By Claudia Hine, Managing Editor uConverting Infot uUniflexo Industria Gráfica Ltda. | Rua Doutor Humberto Giannella, 210, Barueri, Sao Paulo, Brazil | www.uniflexo.com.br W ith supermarkets taking an ever-greater share of the groceries market, high-impact decorative packaging, which attracts consumers’ attention at the point of sale, plays an important role in making a brand successful. As a result, there are more colors on a label, and unique, brandspecific colors increasingly are used as a means of differentiating a product on the crowded shelf. Furthermore, there is less room for error. Customers demand exactly the same look and feel for their products around the world. “All these factors have made ink preparation a very complex, precision affair, which can no longer be carried out manually,” says Flavio Campagnola, general manager of Uniflexo Industria Gráfica. “It is too slow and too prone to error, and that can prove extremely costly.” But Uniflexo, a manufacturer of self-adhesive labels and polyvinyl chloride shrinkwrap packaging, is set to improve quality consistency, reduce ink waste, and cut makeready times with its investment in a Colorsat Match gravimetric ink dispensing system from GSE Dispensing. The arrival of the new system means Uniflexo no longer needs to rely on external suppliers for special recipes, which sometimes took many days to arrive. The problem of absolute control of a workflow in which our inks are ready, virtually instantaneously, without delay.” Thanks to proprietary software called IMS (Ink Management Software), the dispensing system calculates the exact dosage requirements for the print run. Moreover, any surplus inks remaining from a previous job easily can be calculated into new recipes, an arduous task if calculated manually. Other benefits of IMS include a database facility logging all recipe-components against each job, real-time ink stock availability, and bar coding of surplus inks after a production run for efficient stockholding. “The Colorsat Match brings our ink preparation procedures up to the same high standard of professionalism that we offer at all other stages of our manufacturing Uniflexo’s Flavio Campagnola (center) takes possession of a GSE process,” says Campagnola. Colorsat Match ink dispenser at Flexo Latino America 2008 in Sao Paulo, “This will enable us to meet Brazil. Also pictured are Anne Lourens (left), GSE Dispensing, and Paulo the uncompromising packagRuffini, Stork Prints Brazil (GSE’s regional distribution agency.) ing and label quality expectations of our global brandMinimal Manual Input dispensing range between 1 and owner customers.” Uniflexo supplies a range of 5 kg, ultraviolet-curable and narrow web packaging soluwater-based flexographic inks uSupplier Infot tions to a host of leading having up to 20 components names in the food and beveruGSE B.V. | reportedly are prepared, with age, healthcare, cosmetics, and precision, in only 4 minute. www.gsedispensing.com pharmaceutical industries, PFFC-ASAP 305 Says Campagnola, “The including Colgate, L’Oreal, uNilpeter | www.nilpeter.com new dispensing system offers and Merck & Co. The comPFFC-ASAP 306 many benefits that will help pany has six flexo presses, uOmet | www.matik.com boost our competitiveness. It from Nilpeter and Omet, that creates a fully automated, ink PFFC-ASAP 307 feature added-value printing logistics operation, giving us waste, due to unusable leftover inks from previous jobs, has been eliminated. Individual ink raw materials can be traced clearly to each job. And in the case of repeat orders, when an identical recipe is simply recalled, the company can assure its customers of absolute quality consistency, time and time again. WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM technologies, including rotary screen and hot-stamping. The Colorsat Match provides the recipes for all flexo printing requirements. The Match is designed specifically to help narrow web converters prepare faster the required PMS and spot colors with total precision and with minimal manual input. With a 36 | NOVEMBER 2008 http://www.uniflexo.com.br http://www.gsedispensing.com http://www.nilpeter.com http://www.matik.com http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM

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PFFC - November 2008 Contents First Glance Calendar of Events From the Editor Web Lines Process Management News Clips Narrow Web & Label Reporter Narrow Web & Label: What’s New Products TLMI Awards Card Making Web Coating Ink Dispensing Lab/Pilot/Technical Facilities Directory Testing & Measuring Products What’s New Products Services Directory Classified Marketplace Advertisers Index Experience Speaks

PFFC - November 2008

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