Printing is the key factor when it comes to product packaging. These days, Flexography is the printing method commonly used by most product packaging companies to ensure high quality impressive print. With the popularity of sustainable packaging materials like corrugated cardboard on the rise more and more packaging services are turning to flexographic printing. Other than corrugated cardboard boxes, flexography is used to print on cartons, gable boxes, paper sacks, disposable containers, labels and wrappers of food items.

The prime reason behind the increasing popularity of the method is its simplicity. Flexography is quite simple and can be used on wide variety of materials ranging from paper to plastic. It requires easy and simple operations to carry out printing.

Secondly, this method is easily adaptable to use water-based ink. The use of water based ink helps to reduce the emission of volatile organic compound (VOC) that is highly pollutant. Compared to other printing processes like gravure printing, flexographic printing technology is much safer for the environment.

Like Lithographic and Gravure printing Flexography uses 4 basic colors for ink