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| Clemson is an ideal location for printing and packaging related testing and research due to the unique combination of: | |
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GC equipment in flexography, offset lithography, and screen printing |
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Clemson offers both technology and expertise to facilitate your company's research and testing needs. All results of company commissioned research and testing are kept confidential. |
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| Undergraduate and graduate students under the supervision of a GC faculty member can be hired on a semester basis to conduct research utilizing Clemson's extensive facilities. For example, an emissions study was conducted for the EPA utilizing the 47" Carint Gemini 1290 six-color central impression flexographic press and solvent-based inks at Clemson's Print/Con Center. | |
| Product testing relating to flexography, offset lithography or screen printing can be conducted for both printers and suppliers. Full service capabilities are offered including prepress and platemaking services as well as actual on-press testing. Test design and analysis of test results can also be provided. Often, suppliers will evaluate a developmental product in Clemson's facilities prior to releasing it to market in order to quantify its performance characteristics. Printers utilize Clemson's facilities to evaluate various products and select the best for their application without robbing valuable press time from their production schedule. Testing at Clemson also ensures that the evaluation is conducted under controlled conditions which are repeatable and without bias. | |
| Printers elect to use Clemson's facilities to test new processes. Print trials were conducted for a printer who made a flexo plate change and needed to identify the appropriate anilox rolls. | |
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Equipment manufacturers
employ Clemson's facilities for product development. Manufacturer's
have installed prototypes at Clemson in order to run tests to predict
actual field performance. For example, one manufacturer applied
their new chamber doctor blade system on one of Clemson's presses
in order to evaluate its ink usage, pumping efficiency, and ease
of use in a production setting. Because of the nature of the work
done in Clemson's facilities (many, many short runs), Clemson is
particularly attractive to equipment manufacturers interested in
evaluating the performance of their product over time, as related
to set-up and clean-up functions. Of course, tests can be designed
to evaluate the performance of a product over a long run as well. |
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Any questions or comments should be directed to Jay Sperry at jsperry@clemson.edu.