Anderson & Vreeland, a supplier of prepress products for the flexographic printing industry, will present a four-part webinar serires titled “Converging Technologies Affecting Flexo. This educational webinar initiative focusing on improved performance and profitability begins
Wednesday, March 11, 2015.

The webinar events will be offered the second Wednesday of March, June, September and December at 2 PM EST. Dates and subjects to be addressed during the educational webinars include:

Computer-to-Plate Technologies,   Wednesday, March 11
Extended Gamut Flexography,  Wednesday, June 10
Digital Printing…When to Invest, Wednesday, September 9
Integrated Digital Front Ends for Flexo, Wednesday, December 9

Lee Zerfass, digital business manager for Anderson & Vreeland, will host The “Converging Technologies Affecting Flexo” webinar educational initiative. He has over 20 years of technical sales experience across various printing industries with a focus on digital products.

“These converging technologies offer vastly improved print applications, greater efficiencies and new opportunities to profit and grow in the future. We look forward to sharing our knowledge with the flexo community,” says Zerfass.

The first webinar event, the “State of Computer-To-Plate Technologies for Flexography,” will present driving factors pushing this technology even further, making the investment in CTP beneficial.

“Extended Gamut Flexo” will be the focus of the second webinar event and present the many benefits of extended gamut flexo. These include delivering unlimited digital (process) colors, shorter lead times, improved print consistency and higher profit margins.

The third webinar event in the educational initiative is “Digital Printing…When to Invest?” It will look at many factors affecting the adoption of digital printing technology, including inkjet vs. toner, capacity requirements, service agreements, color considerations and more. Is 4-color process too limiting? What about extended gamut?

The fourth webinar event is titled “The ABCs of DFEs” and focuses on integrated digital front ends, the brains of a digital printing system. This webinar will simplify the complexities of digital front ends and factors to be considered with their adoption.