Customer Testimonials

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Ampac Paper, Inc

“The quality of Harper’s anilox rolls combined with their technical support and our printing team at Ampac Paper, Inc resulted in a winning collaboration and a win/win for everyone involved. We really appreciate the products and technical support we received from Harper Corporation.”

Mike Argenio – Preprint Manager

2012 FTA Excellence Gold & Best of show winner

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At Ampac, we used to struggle when printing 4 color process graphics. We had typical issues with dirty print and ink plugging in the highlights, Flexo chatter, etc. We contacted Harper and after evaluation of our process, decided we needed not only to fingerprint the press but also optimize our Flexo process in order to print quality products.

A banded roller was purchased and ran with the support of Harper’s GraphicSoultions Technical Division, our ink vendor and prepress supplier. A press optimization was conducted during the banded roller stage and this enabled us to produce a quality graphics and maintain consistent print target densities.

Next, we did a full characterization on press to quantify the optimized process. With all this accomplished, we decided to send in an entry (Aéropostale) to the FTA for – 4 color graphic bag on the coated paper category. We won the FTA’s GOLD award for “Best of Show” for wide web coated paper category.

The quality of Harper’s anilox rolls combined with their technical support and our printing team at Ampac Paper, Inc resulted in a winning collaboration and win/win for everyone involved. We really appreciate the products and technical support we received from Harper Corporation.

Tailored Label Products

“When it comes to performance and longevity, nothing beats Harper’s anilox rolls. Harper provides a top quality product backed up with top notch sales and support.For Tailored Label Products, Harper is our number one choice.”

Mark Little, Flexographic Operations Manager

Ampac Paper, Inc

Mike Argenio – PrePrint Manager

2012 FTA Excellence Gold & Best of show winner

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Logmatix

“Harper is always keeping us abreast of new technology that allow us to maintain our competitive edge. We can always count on their team for recommendations for specialty applications.”

Tim Appling – General Manager

TLMI Best of Show – First Place Winner

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We ran this job on Mark Andy 17” printing press with plates mounted by hand. Running this job was a real challenge because it had to be printed as a minor image and we had to make sure that the last down opaque white was not spotty or grainy. We needed consistency throughout the run and even though in the past we used anilox rolls from other suppliers, we knew that we needed to use Harper rolls to achieve the results we were looking for. Harper anilox rolls make our job so much easier. They have an exceptional support team, including their very knowledgeable sales representatives, technical support, and customer service. We chose to use Harper anilox rolls because of their proven quality, consistency, and durability. Harper is always keeping us abreast of new technologies that allow us to maintain our competitive edge. We can always count on their team for recommendations for specialty applications. Why choose other anilox roll supplies when Harper has the best to offer!

This was our very first entry into the competition so we’re pleasantly surprised that we won first place. This is truly a “David vs. Goliath story”.

Sunshine Plastics Corp.

“Harper’s anilox rolls allow us to be more competitive by achieving finer and cleaner print. Quality and consistency contributes to the bottom line, along with being domestic and vertically integrated.”

James Chuang – President

2011 FTA Excellence Gold & Best of Show winner

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We have been fortunate to win 7 prestigious awards in a 12-month span. Our latest, none larger than the Grand Prize “Best of Show” for wide wed at the FTA this year. There were companies from Europe, South America, Canada, and North America in this competition. Our challenge with this project was that our client was seeing a wide wed company that could attain high quality line screens. They were accustomed to using rotogravure printers to achieve the type of quality that they were seeking. The positive reaction was in our favor when they saw our quality of work. The experience changed their perception of a domestic converter printing with a flexographic process. This helped us enhance the ability to increase the value of our customer’s brand.

When we took on this project, we knew that we needed to see our anilox rolls perform with optimum ink release. Harper’s XTL technology allows improvement in ink transfer and impression. The advanced cell profile yields greater volume at a higher cell per inch. The optimized cell profile enhances ink transfer which applies to achieving consistent quality for printed impressions. Attaining a high line screen of 300 LPI for wide web was no longer a pie in the sky. This led to optimizing existing markets and entering new segments that we could not harvest in the past.

We achieved this increasing resolution, contrast, and vibrancy of our printed images. The photographic objects rendered with increased definition of depth and highlight. The cell profile of the Harper anilox performed with consistent volume which translated to consistent ink lay down and color gamut. This optimized densities with minimal effort.

Harper’s anilox rolls allow us to be more competitive by achieving finer and cleaner print. Quality and consistency contribute to the bottom line, along with being domestic and vertically integrated.

Cindi Shockley and all the members of the Harper team have been extremely supportive in attending our needs. We appreciate the extra effort of personal visits and proactive assistance. Top services such as volunteering to diagnose the condition of our anilox, thinking of ways to reduce costs, and helping us find the best solution for our needs are all examples of top service.

Labeltronix

“The consistent high quality we achieve from Harper’s anilox sleeves has enabled us to obtain new accounts based on this quality.”

John Trail – President

2010 FTA Excellence in Flexography Gold winner

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These are great accomplishments for us because we have been printing Flexo for less than 3 years when awarded these medals. The awards shows the commitment and dedication of the entire Labeltronix team, including supplies, to build such a product offering in a short period of time.

We first made contact with Harper Corporation of America while our press was on order. The Harper Team worked to build us a banded roll for us during our print trial. It was because of this banded roll trial that we chose our 1.200 LPI anilox sleeves and also determined most of our anilox sleeve inventory needs. It is with these same sleeves that we printed all of our award-winning entries. Harper has continued to partner with us to ensure our sleeves are functioning properly, performing roll audits, Wchochecks, etc. We’ve also partnered with Harper on cleaning methods and collusion to ensure we properly clean our sleeves which is very important, especially if you’re trying to print such quality at a consistent level.

We only looked at Harper’s anilox sleeves from the beginning because of Harper’s reputation for the best quality in the industry. Because anilox sleeves were new at the time to the narrow web industry, we felt very comfortable working with Harper. The consistent high quality we achieve from Harper’s anilox sleeves has enabled us to obtain new accounts based on this quality.

We rely on our suppliers for myriad things, especially technical assistance and troubleshooting. Harper has been a partner with us since before we were manufacturing Flexo. They have performed training seminars for our company, worked with us on banded roll trials, and provided us on-site technical support on numerous occasions to help us meet our customer’s expectations.

Rock Tenn Corporation, TN

“I have used Harper Anilox rollers for about 15 years here in the US and in Europe. Only once have I moved to another supplier and that was for a less expensive roller and found that the old saying “You get what you pay for” came true yet again. What Harper offers when you purchase a roller is great customer service, outstanding technical and sales support and quality products.”

Rock Tenn Corporation, TN

MPI Label Systems

“Harper anilox rolls can offer an extended life which MPI sees as a major benefit to our continued success”

Randy L. Kocher – President

PackagePRINTING Excellence- 1st place

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Our latest UV Flexo labels that received the First Place in the packagePRINTING Excellence Award were printed using a 15-year-old press with an anilox roll from Harper that was several years old. To MPI, this proves that when a roller is handled and maintained properly, Harper anilox rolls can offer an extended life which MPI sees as a major benefit to our continued success.

Amscan, Inc.

“We find Harper Corporation of America offers a very consistent roll. Consistency is the key to helping us satisfy our customers. We also find Harper has an excellent support staff to assist with any questions or problems.”

Paul Fischer

FTA Excellence in Flexography gold award

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Using FIRST, we fingerprinted press to find what anilox would be best. We found that 700 line anilox with 3.0-3.5 volumes give us the densities we need.

Label Technology, Inc.

“Harper Corporation is the most consistent anilox roll manufacturer of all the companies I have dealt with. Their customer service is second to none.”

Pat Hill – Production Manager

2008 FTA Gold and Best of Show winner

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Fleshtones, vignettes, process text, tight registration, and an unstable substrate made this one very tough.

Dow Industries

“With reliability, we can count on, Harper has helped Dow Industries achieve our desired press results faster, giving our company a competitive edge.”

Dennis Apgar – General Manager

World Label Award

The Beistle Company

“The quality of Harper’s anilox rollers proves to me why Harper continues to maintain its status as the industry leader in innovation, consistency, and performance.”

Doug Wilson – Vice President of Manufacturing

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At the Beistle Company, we pride ourselves on being the oldest and largest manufacturer of decorations and party goods. We’re proud to have a reputation for excellence that makes us world-renowned in the party goods industry.

Back in 1997, when we were strictly offset printers with little knowledge of flexography, our management team decided to purchase a flexographic printing press and enter flexographic printing. It was my job to evaluate press manufacturers and any other necessary consumables that would be a part of the press and its process. With limited knowledge, I thought it would be best to work with the leaders in their respective fields. After extensive research, I chose a Mark Andy printing press and Harper anilox rollers.

Almost 10 years have passed since our first flexo press run, and it turns out that these choices were very good ones. We are still running the same press, and today we have more than 50 Harper anilox rollers in inventory, including several of the original rollers! We print everything from tissue paper to heavy vinyl and film, and SBS board stock.

In our business, print reproduction sells the product. We catalog more than 6,000 products, and it is absolutely critical that we have exact print matches from run to run. In other words, our business is built on print consistency, and Harper’s anilox rolls have never let us down.

Over the last decade, we have progressed with Harper from Echocel technology to Platinum and now to Platinum XLT™ technology. This constant improvement in anilox roll engravings has allowed us to reproduce images that were previously unattainable.

The quality of Harper’s anilox rollers proves to me why Harper continues to maintain its status as the industry leader in innovation, consistency, and performance. I can tell you from personal experience that with proper care, Harper rolls perform under the most extreme conditions, and demonstrate over and over again that they provide the necessary edge in print reproduction.

Global Packaging

“Harper’s continued support and excellent customer service – along with quality engravings warrant the commitment for 100% of our anilox roll business. Harper’s team comes through for us, we trust them absolutely.”

Tim Rooney – Plant Manager

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For excellence in packaging graphics, many well-known companies turn to Global Packaging, of Oaks, PA. A full-service flexographic printer and converter established in 1948, Global Packaging is an industry leader in branded and private-label packaging. Global provides flexographic printed materials for such industries as personal hygiene, diapers/incontinence, frozen foods, bakery, candy, snack foods, pet foods, birdseed, and others. The company’s printing equipment includes two eight-color central impression PCMC presses. In the last year, the company added a 10-color Windmoeller & Hoelscher NOVOFLEX unit, which runs at press speeds of 600 to 2,000 feet per minute. In the past six months, Global Packaging has been featured in FTA’s FLEXO magazine and PAPER, FILM, and FOIL CONVERTER magazine.

For many years, Global Packaging has turned to Harper Corporation of America for products and technical services to help ensure that Global continues to achieve the best print results possible.

According to Tim Rooney, Global Packaging’s plant manager, “Harper’s roll consistency has helped our effort to create predictable results”

Shortly after the new NOVOFLEX was installed, Global ran a banded roll trial. The account manager and technical consultant from Harper Corporation both worked very closely with Global’s staff to optimize anilox line screens and volumes by adjusting dot gain, contrast, and solid ink densities. The Harper representatives were able to enter all pertinent data into Global’s established data spreadsheet press-side.

Recently, Global Packaging printed the entry for which W&H’s EASY SET Automated Impression Setting System, a feature on its new NOVOFLEX press, won the FTA FLEXOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL INNOVATION AWARD. In addition to the feature of Global Packaging on the cover of FLEXO Magazine’s September 2005 issue, a sample of the award-winning entry it printed, pouches for Jasper Wyman’s Fresh Frozen Wild Blueberries, was folded into the magazine’s pages.

This product is a 26-in., 48-ga. DuPont LBT polyester bag, printed in eight colors, laminated, and converted into a stand-up pouch. To complete the project, Global Packaging partnered with Harper Corporation, Flint Ink, and Southern Graphics, and chose Harper Corporation’s 360-900 line/60-degree anilox rolls with Platinum engraving technology.

“With the challenging graphics on this and other products we’re printing on the NOVOFLEX, it was necessary to bring in new anilox rolls in very short lead times.” committed Rooney. “On two occasions, we needed anilox rolls in less than one week. The Harper Corporation team (the account manager, customer service specialist, and several manufacturing employees) rose to the occasion both times and helped us satisfy our customer’s needs.”

“Harper’s continued support and excellent customer service – along with quality engravings – warrants the commitment for 100% of our anilox roll business,” said Rooney. ‘Put plainly, Harper’s team comes through for us – we trust them absolutely.”

Ultra Flex

“I rely on Harper’s commitment to outstanding quality and consistency from roll to roll, which allow us to know we will be printing our best. I really believe that when you buy an anilox roll from Harper, you buy peace of mind.”

Zalman Zohar

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Partnering with Harper Enhances My Printing – And My Bottom Line

For more than 30 years, leaders in food, beverage, textiles, and other industries have come to Ultra Flex Packaging Corporation in Brooklyn, N.Y., for its innovation, state-of-the-art technology, and overall excellent quality in printed flexible packaging. For much of that time, Ultra Flex has turned to Harper Corporation of America for the products and technical service that help ensure that Ultra Flex continues to produce the best flexographic printing possible.

Zalman Zohar, print manager at Ultra Flex, and a highly respected figure in the flexible packaging printing business has spent 34 years in the industry. Here’s what he has to say about working with Harper Corporation:

A True Innovator

“Right from the beginning, Harper Corporation has been the leader in anilox technology, and it has always been very forthright in sharing information that critically benefits our printing process. Today it still consistently reinvests in its business with cutting-edge technology. This benefits all of us.

“Harper’s scientific approach to its product development and the entire flexo printing process has provided us with solutions to print problems, and it has even helped us evaluate our ink suppliers and systems. In fact, in 2003, we were experiencing a problem with white ink misting at high press speeds. Harper devised a banded anilox roll with 30-degree cell geometry that solved the misting problem for us.”

A Defender of the Bottom Line

“By helping us reduce our set-up time, material wasted, and ink consumption, Harper has improved our efficiencies and productivity, resulting in significant cost savings for Ultra Flex.”

A Valuable Partner

“Working with Harper, I have developed a genuine partnership that is based on communication, trust, and the willingness to educate and direct.

“A few years ago, I attended a WalkingSeminar at Harper’s manufacturing facility in Charlotte, N.C., where I was surprised at how much I learned about the anilox roll, its influence on the printing process – and most importantly – its influence on the finished product. I would recommend this program to anyone who is serious about their printing.

“I rely on Harper’s commitment to outstanding quality and consistency from roll to roll, which allows us to know we will be printing our best. Through their technological expertise, Harper has actually enhanced our print capabilities over the years. Without question, Harper has helped us make the technological and quality leap that has occurred just in the last few years in the flexo printing industry. I really believe that when you buy an anilox roll from Harper, you buy peace of mind.”

Label House Group

“We greatly appreciate the work of Alexander James, Pre-Press Technician, with Harper GraphicSolutionsT. Alexander’s contracted on-site prepress training was a critical part of raising the skill level and knowledge of our technicians. Having him on-site enabled our staff to receive training specific to our technology. Harper GraphicSolutions’ technicians continue to be a valuable resource to Label House.”

Solo Cup Company

“We have noticed a dramatic improvement at our Chicago operation in our overall reduction of make-ready times from a direct result of the Verification Program, implemented by Harper Technical Solutions Midwest Technical Advisor, Mike Huey.”

Mike Collier – Corporate Printing Manager

“The improvements have allowed us to eliminate the need to hire temporary employees to maintain our anilox inventory. We now efficiently manage the inventory during normal working hours.”

Lionel Valencia – Print Manager, Chicago Facility

Bancroft Bag Print

“Partnering with Harper has helped increase our print quality by reducing plugging, increasing color consistency and improving combination work, which is always a challenge.”

Michael Poole – Print/Warehouse/ Receiving Manager

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For more than 80 years, Bancroft Bag has operated the largest diversified multi-wall plant in the United States. The company serves a multitude of markets ranging from pet food to USDA food exports, fertilizers, and unique and costly minerals and chemicals.

According to Mike Poole, the company’s Print/Warehouse/ Receiving Manager, Bancroft Bag teamed up with Harper Corporation of America to improve the quality of its printing process.

To achieve this, Bancroft and Harper’s technical groups worked together very closely, creating a solution customized for Bancroft’s operations.

The results were clear. Shortly after switching to Harper’s new XLT engraving, Bancroft’s production team said it saw an immediate improvement in print quality with a reduced need for anilox roll changes.

“The XLT engraving has helped increase line screen due to greater density, resulting in cleaner print,” Poole said. “And the operators enjoy working with the Harper rolls because they’re so easy to use. Partnering with Harper has helped increase our print quality by reducing plugging, increasing color consistency, and improving combination work, which is always a challenge.”

Customer satisfaction is paramount for Bancroft, according to Poole. “Harper’s roll consistency has greatly helped our effort to create reliable process results and reduce downtime. In today’s competitive market, our customers demand the highest quality and color consistency. Harper has helped us achieve it.”

Yanber, S.A.

Harper has helped us increase our production, reducing our set-up times and waste”

Juan Carlos Varela – Flexo Centroamerica, 1st and 2nd winner

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The combination of effects in the background and the sustainability of the different levels that represent the color separation, made us seek greater harmony between each other so we would not overshadow any of the elements that our customer wanted to present on the package. The metallic effect on the background area, and the chicken image among the vegetables, was something that we needed to maintain, not only the necessary contrast but also greater control of the highlighted areas for the best possible definition.

Fort Dearborn

“Bill Poulson, Technical Solutions Manager, set us up internally to manage the inventory on an ongoing basis ourselves. The return on investment was almost immediate”.

Bob Cizmar – Production

Atlantic Envelope Company

“The Harper Technical Solutions Programs have been a value-added benefit to our operation. John Lothrop; West Coast Graphics Advisor with Harper implemented two programs, the Anilox Tagging Program and the Anilox Verification Program. Since implementing the Anilox Tagging Program our anilox roll traceability is at 100%. At a glance we know the specific number, linescreen and volume of every roll due to the new tagging system. With the implementation of the Anilox Verification Program, Atlantic Envelope has seen a 15-20% reduction in downtime and eliminated credits attributed to printing problems. John Lothrop implemented the tools to allow our staff to manage the programs success internally for a return on investment that surpassed our expectations at the Atlantic Envelope, Hayward, CA facility.”

Charlie Zawde – Manufacturing Manager

Henkel Technologies

“The Phantom QD™has been a welcomed addition to our lab application equipment. Its ease of use is only surpassed by the Phantom QD’s ability to repeatedly offer consistent samples. Customer Service was great in helping us perfect this unit for our needs. Would highly recommend Harper and the Phantom QD!”

Scott Breeden – Henkel Technologies

Tempo Plastics Ltd

“Excellent program, very informative and educational. In hindsight we should have brought more of our people and will do so for any future Harper Roadshows.”

Randy O’Hara, Print Manager

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