Flexographic printing for flexible packaging - a complimentary technology to rotogravure printing
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Flexographic printing for flexible packaging is a complementary technology to rotogravure gravure printing. Flexo printing offers to flexible packaging companies cost advantages especially for short run flexible packaging printing jobs. Moreover flexo printing supports the production of sustainable packaging.
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