FLEXO's Archives Are Only for FTA Members!






The FLEXO Magazine archives stretch back to 2010 and include more than eight years of technical articles, how-tos, FTA event recaps and member happenings, industry forecasts and reports, and more. You can read articles, search individual issues for keywords like “anilox roll” or “labels,” and share on social media.

Here's What You're Missing in the FLEXO Magazine Archives

  • Forecasts: Industry analysts speak to the size, scope, business conditions, applications, trends and challenges associated with package printing and converting
  • Applications: Entire issues focused on labels, flexible packaging, folding carton, corrugated, envelope, specialty, prepress and design
  • Inks, Anilox Roll & Doctor Blade Selection Guide: Technical analysis of the three key consumables and how they interact with each other
  • Press Buyer’s Guide: What to look for from your narrow, wide, mid web or hybrid press
  • Converting Equipment Selector: Inline and offline options, from die cutters to slitter/rewinders, laminators to folders/gluers, pouch making to sleeve shrinking systems
  • Plate, Sleeve, Plate Making Selection Guide: All the details on dot structure, shoulders, relief, materials, processors and automated techniques
  • Color & Process Control: Optimization, characterization, fingerprinting, profiles, curves and a print shop’s changing culture
  • SourceBook: FLEXO's International Directory of Package Printing and Converting Products, Services and Professionals
  • Flash Polls: Printers outline positions on the state of the industry, financial prospects, essential tools, skills enhancement and more
  • Awards: FTA's Excellence in Flexography Awards winners, Technical Innovation Award winners, Sustainability Excellence Award winners and Hall of Fame inductee are recognized in FLEXO's annual awards issue

There's More Than Just the FLEXO Magazine Archives in MemberConnect

Videos

Weren't able to attend a past Forum or Fall Conference? Watch videos from the events and listen to select presentations. Download the accompanying presentation notes to follow along, make notes and refer to after the video's completion.

Webinars

Revisit past FTA Member Webinars—either for the first time or as a refresher—on valuable subjects like color consistency, doctor blade metering, press bounce control, ink basics and more. Start and stop at your leisure, and use timestamps to jump to specific topics.

Tech Tips

Explore several years' worth of Tech Tips, insightful and informative tidbits of flexographic knowledge to enhance your printing prowess. Longer than a tweet but shorter than a Facebook post, they give bite-sized nuggets of useful information.

Toolbox

Download useful materials in the Toolbox , including the appendices from Flexographic Image Reproduction Specifications & Tolerances (FIRST), characterization targets, fingerprint test targets, optimization test targets, process control targets and more.

FLEXO Tech Talks

FLEXO Tech Talks take the magazine's articles and give authors a chance to expand on their writings, offer additional insight and commentary, give updates since publication, provide further evidence to support a claim or finding, and field questions from listeners.

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And MemberConnect Is Just One of Many Benefits That Comes with FTA Membership

Conferences & Events

Where the smartest minds in the flexographic industry share ideas, spread information and advance packaging printing. From thousands of attendees, to hundreds, to handfuls—there's an event for everyone.

From complimentary to a 50% discount
on non-member pricing for members

FTA Member Webinars

Industry experts present in detail topics spanning all areas of the industry, with PowerPoint slides to follow along and multiple opportunities to ask questions.

Free to attend for members
$199 to attend for non-members

FIRST Individual Certifications

A globally recognized certification program that provides a complete mastery of the flexographic printing process for the different roles within an organization—press operator, prepress operator or implementation specialist.

Level I free for first employee
$990 for non-members

FIRST 6.0

A full scope of specifications, tolerances and guidelines needed to produce high-quality and consistent results.

$105 for members
$210 for non-members

FP&P 6.0

A comprehensive technical resource manual containing illustrations, glossary terms and a troubleshooting guide.

$138 for members
$276 for non-members

Excellence in Flexography Awards

The industry’s longest running and most prestigious annual print competition.

First entry free for members, $75 per additional entry
$150 per entry for non-members

FLEXOGRAPHY 101 Booklet Series

Six books essential to building a solid flexographic foundation or refreshing important concepts.

$80 for members
$160 for non-members

FTA Member Directory Listing

Company info included in SourceBook, FLEXO Magazine’s annual directory of all FTA membership.

Free listing for members
$250 for non-members

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