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The Gravure Report

The growth of flexible packaging has been a bright spot for gravure printers and ink manufacturers, as technological advances are improving turnaround and lowering costs.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

“Art of the American Indian,” a set of 10 United States Postal Service stamps converted by Avery Dennison, Security Printing Division won the Best of Show in the Packaging and Label Gravure Association’s (PLGA) Global 2004 Print Quality Awards competition. The set of pressure-sensitive, 37-cent stamps were printed in seven colors plus a water-based, phosphor coating on non-phosphor stamp paper. In recent years, the gravure industry has faced difficult times in the marketplace, and has see...

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