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  • Kansas City, MO
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Redefining the Limits of Flexographic Printing

Monday, May 6

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

City Beautiful Ballroom

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About This Session

Learn how to elevate your flexographic operations by implementing today’s technologies and processes, backed by an understanding flexographic fundamentals. Hear from experts who have successfully harnessed current technologies to redefine what’s possible in flexographic printing.

Gain actionable insights into the modern landscape of flexographic printing. This session will equip you with tools to achieve your flexographic aspirations. Come away inspired, informed, and ready to push your flexographic printing to new heights. Your journey to mastering today’s flexography starts here.

Presentations & Speakers

Jack Fulton

Pushing the Limits in Corrugated

Jack Fulton, VP at Printron

Presentation Details
The corrugated packaging market continues to be dominated by the flexographic printing process. New press technology is allowing for projects to be printed easier, faster and with greater accuracy than ever before.
Jack will show examples and explain how this technology is helping printers benefit from their already outstanding processes to produce award-winning packaging.
Speaker Bio
About Jack: Jack has been involved in the corrugated printing industry for 47 years. He is currently in a consulting role for Printron, a leading supplier of prepress services, printing plates and cutting dies for the flexographic industry. Jack has been active in several trade organizations and is a past member of the FTA Board of Directors and FFTA Board of Trustees.
One of the highlights of his career was organizing and operating a seminar for companies who wanted to learn how to successfully print high-graphic corrugated work. Giving back to the corrugated industry became a passion for Jack over the years. Jack and his wife Mary have been married for over 52 years. They enjoy spending time with their two children and their families, including five grandchildren!
Rory Marsoun

An Analysis of Today’s Flexographic Print Quality

Rory Marsoun, Director of Sales – Flexo at Esko

Presentation Details
In this presentation, Ken will share best practices related to the creation and use of color profiles in a prepress environment. This includes both .icc and proprietary .mxn profiles, as well as the application of profiles to influence color in contract proofing, CMYK and EG color separations and “soft” monitor viewing.
Speaker Bio
About Rory: When Ken was little, he liked taking things apart to figure out how they worked. As a teen, he chose chemistry as his field of study because it was engaging. And 35 years later, he’s created a rewarding and fun career helping people, still intrigued by how things work and how he and his team can make them better for Flexografix’s customers—While always accepting opportunities to provide the high level of engagement he thrives on.
In his free time, Ken can be found with his wife, Harmony, and daughter, Hannah. A regular meditation practice, being in nature and long-distance motorcycle tours are additional interests of Ken’s.
James Dye Erica Kirinovic

The Future of Sustainability in Flexography

James Dye, Press Manager at Emerald Packaging

Presentation Details
James will review Emerald Packaging’s efforts in sustainability, including PCR film, replacing rigid structures with MDOPE and compostable adhesives. What things worked, and what things didn’t? The world around us is becoming more sustainably focused, why aren’t we? The technology is there, but not enough are taking the plunge.
Speaker Bio
About James: James started off in the cup and lid industry and fell in love with printing right away. From there, he aspired to learn every aspect of all printing platforms and that has granted him experience with many different types of presses—old and new—as well as plates, inks and substrates. James has participated in a few company startups as well and that gave him the opportunity to teach as well as learn new things and continue growing in the industry.
Kenny Tucker

Training, Research, Students

Kenny Tucker, Assistant Director at the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University

Presentation Details
An ICC profile is a colorimetric description of a color device. When used as designed, the profile can convert colors in such a way that the final print matches an industry standard or a custom reference.
Join Mark as he examines the ins and outs of standard and custom profiles.
Speaker Bio
About Kenny: Kenny is the assistant director at the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics at Clemson University. He received his bachelor’s in graphic communications from Clemson in 2004. He started his career with Sealed Air Corp within a variety of roles involving prepress, color management, inkjet proofing, remote proofing, workflow automation, expanded gamut printing, press characterizations and management of graphic technologies. He also worked with Anderson & Vreeland as a technology specialist installing plate making equipment, rip software and inkjet proofing solutions. Recently, he worked for Frontier Label as production manager overseeing inventory purchasing, production of labels, projects and maintenance. He joined Clemson University in 2019 and coordinates projects, industry seminars, research and workshops. He spends his weekends fishing, camping and relaxing with family.
Jennye Scott

Expanding the Flexographic Best Practices

Jennye Scott, VP Global Creative Services at Berry Global

Presentation Details
The Flexographic Image Reproduction Specifications & Tolerances (FIRST) program changed a lot of different areas at Berry Global. The best practices and methodologies that we learned with FIRST not only helped us with our flexo printing processes, but all of the other printing processes that we have at Berry. As we continue to develop new decorating technologies, we utilize these best practices and methodologies of FIRST to ensure success in all decorating areas.
Speaker Bio
About Jennye: Jennye is the VP of global creative services at Berry Global. Jennye holds an Associate Degree in commercial art from Ivy Tech and later received a Bachelor’s Degree in organizational management from Oakland City University. Jennye is FTA chairman of the Board and very involved in the Women of Flexo.
Over the years, she has chaired and co-chaired FORUM, and spoken at many FTA conferences and events around the country; she was also asked to represent FTA at the Flexible Packaging & Label Manufacturers Association—an Australian print conference—in 2017. Jennye is very passionate about process improvement opportunities in many areas, specifically in the different printing arenas within Berry.

Session Chairs

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Rory Marsoun

Rory Marsoun

Esko

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Kenny Tucker

Kenny Tucker

Clemson University

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