*NEWS*FLINT INK,WORLD

Flint Ink will invite customers to “Rely on Us” for innovation at Graph Expo/Converting Expo 2004.  An extended range of new ArrowStar™ Sheetfed Inks to complement the ArrowStar 8030, Fast-Setting 3030 and High-Strength 4000 formulations recently introduced. The result of a best-in-class product development imitative, the ArrowStar product line offers exceptional, robust performance coupled with demonstrated consistency on a diverse range of substrates and presses.

• Jetrion, LLC will announce the expansion of the Jetrion 3000 Series to include the Jetrion 3025, Jetrion 3010 and Jetrion 3005 Inkjet Systems. Jetrion will also announce the formation of a significant partnership with a digital printing industry market leader. Details of additional distribution relationships will also be made public at Graph Expo.
• Flint Ink will introduce color management services from Progressive Color Media, LLC. Progressive Color Media provides a full range of workflow color management solutions integrating hardware, software, and services.  The solutions help customers simplify processes and harmonize disparate systems to provide greater confidence in the accuracy, reproducibility, and efficient production of printed results.
• Flint Ink will also introduce new Arrowlith™ UV inks, formulated to deliver the enhanced quality and productivity of energy cure technology to coldset web printers. Designed for open fountain presses, the new ink system produces brilliant images on a wide variety of substrates, extending the capabilities of commercial coldest printers. 
• Precisia, LLC will feature Printed Electronics solutions including conductive inks for high-speed production of radio frequency identification (RFID) antennas. Precisia also offers fully enabled RFID tags, printed thin batteries and essential materials for RFID and other printed electronics applications.
• World Class Products for Sheetfed Applications – ArrowStar™ sheetfed inks
• Color Management Services – Progressive Color Media, LLC
• Powerful Digital Solutions – Jetrion, LLC
• Printed Electronics Solutions – Precisia, LLC

Founded in 1920, Flint Ink is the largest privately owned printing ink manufacturer in the world. The company offers a comprehensive range of flexographic, sheetfed, web offset, gravure, UV/EB curable, digital inkjet and conductive inks and equipment. The corporation is organized into nine segments: North America, Latin America, Asia, India/Pacific, Flint-Schmidt (Europe), Jetrion LLC (digital inks, equipment and integration), Precisia LLC (printed electronics), Progressive Color Media (color management services) and CDR Pigments & Dispersions. Flint Ink operates nearly 100 facilities worldwide, employs approximately 4600 people, and has sales in excess of USD$1.4 billion worldwide