Central Piedmont flexography student Micah Pursar will be one of the presenters during the Flexographic Technical Association’s 2021 Forum, being held virtually on May 20. Pursar will participate in the “Investigating Methods to Increase Efficiency & Packaging Quality,” session.

During the session, listeners will hear the results of the latest Flexo Quality Consortium projects that focus on opacity measurements, optimizing color gamuts through magenta ink selection, process control with ink temperature, and maximizing plate life.

Additionally, student scholarship recipients – like Pursar – will present their research on a variety of topics, including post-print corrugated distortion calculations and Digimarc technology to facilitate brands’ recycling initiatives.

Pursar plans to present “The Best Variables for an Opaque White Print.” She will discuss how her project sought to find the combination of variables that would help opaque white ink print on both craft and film substrates.

Her research tested a combination of 80 different configurations of variables to see which produced the cleanest print, focusing mainly on film substrate. The objective was to find a way to put data behind each configuration so printers can know what best to use in their run, cutting out material waste and time used in testing.

Congratulations to Micah Pursar on being named a participant! Learn more about the 2021 Forum.