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Print Trials
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Print Trials

Print Trials

 

The Sonoco Institute houses everything needed to conduct start-to-finish print trials on our versatile, seven-station OMET Varyflex printing press. Our inventory is always stocked with CMYK inks, including solvent, water-based for paper, water-based for film and dual-cure UV ink options. We have four different, high-quality plate types and eight different plate mounting technologies. This, paired with our Esko prepress capabilities and color measurement software, makes the Sonoco Institute's Advanced Print Technologies Lab one of the most versatile in the world.

What can we test?

Our flexo team regularly performs research for companies testing the printability of plate types, advanced screening methods, ink properties, mounting tape technologies, anilox cell pattern and volume, and new sleeve technologies, among other variables.

Some of our recent press runs include:

Large ink containers in the foreground with workers in a lab setting blurred in the background.
Hand holding a flexible circuit sheet with the overlaid text “Printed Electronics.”
Person working at a lab workstation using a keyboard and equipment, with the text “Plate Testing” overlaid.
Coca‑Cola Zero Sugar packaging with a can next to a carton labeled “Pilot Runs.”
Group of coworkers in a meeting reviewing printed materials, with the text “Customized Training” overlaid.
Print Lab Equipment, Specifications & Rates Full Equipment List

If you have a substrate, ink, plate, anilox, doctor blade, mounting tape, screening, process, technique, etc., that you'd like to test but don't have access to press time, contact us to arrange a print trial today.

 

Recent Participants

Logos of Digimarc, MacDermid Graphics Solutions, FUJIFILM, and Pepsi.Logos of Sealed Air, DuPont, WestRock, and Wikoff Color Corporation.Logos of Dow, Phoseon Technology, and Harper.
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