Printers and converters continue to add advanced software for prepress functions while also evaluating new platforms to optimize quality control during print runs and reduce overall ink consumption.
Advanced software and integrated digital prepress platforms are helping printers optimize operations by automating processes, reducing ink consumption, enhancing inline print inspection and assimilate new technology applications, such as digital watermarking, into current workflows.
Flexible Packaging had the opportunity to talk with Jeff Wooster, global sustainability director for Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, about what consumers want, technologies that bring recycled materials to market, the recycling crisis and collaboration.