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Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... the Twilight Saga: New Moon movie from Summit Entertainment, Santa Monica, CA. Attractive glistening metallic graphics offered a low unit cost, comprising Unifoil-converted 3-mil EWR 57 gloss/matte white ...

Inks Give Bright, Bold Colors

(New Products)

March 31, 2010, High-performance metallic inks include UV flexo gold and silver, UV screen silver and UV flexo VMP (Very Bright Foil Replacement) silver. Inks are said High-performance metallic inks include UV flexo gold ...

It Must Have Been Moonglow

(First Glance)

March 31, 2010, ... in Australia (also see AIMCAL competition, p34.). The cup is made with IGH's metallized KROM IML cup technology, which incorporates Unifoil's silver metallic Ultralustre substrate. According to Rosa Hermoza, ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... in-mold-label decorated souvenir cups promoting the New Moon movie from Summit Entertainment, Santa Monica, CA. Attractive glistening metallic graphics offered a low unit cost, comprising Unifoil-converted ...

Speaking of Productivity

(Magazine)

February 28, 2010, ... to eight colors in a single pass utilizing Pantone's Hexachrome six-color system. Disc can print, coat, and apply specialized metallics on a variety of substrates including paper, paperboard, film, and ...

Click To Pick

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, Coatings Are Metallic Alternative & Green MiraFoil coatings are an environmental alternative to metallic foil laminates. Claimed fully recyclable, coatings Coatings Are Metallic Alternative & Green MiraFoil ...

Proof Jobs with White

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... flexo and gravure print jobs that require the color white. For use with a broad range of substrates, including inkjet-coated transparent and metallic films, this approach to producing the color white is ...

Shrink Labels Enhance POP

(Narrow Web Products)

October 31, 2009, ... company says. Line provides many design options, as it can be printed with thermocromatic, metallic, and glow-in-the-dark inks and used with spot varnishing OPV for a frosty-cold look. Eastman Chemical ...

Labeled for Success

(Narrow Web)

October 31, 2009, ... Corp. faced many challenges in creating this label that uses a UV flexo process, including droplets made of vignettes, metallic gold requests, and realistic photographic images. The company utilizes flexo ...

Engineer's Playgroun

(Coating/Laminating Main)

October 31, 2009, ... at speeds up to 5,000 fpm. Products tested at the company's 8,000-sq-ft pilot lab facility include polyester and nylon films; printed, unprinted, and coated films; and such specialty substrates as metallics ...

Very Revealing

(First Glance)

September 30, 2009, ... Brooker says, “Backing printing inks with a metallized film typically gives the packaging excellent visual appeal as the colors appear metallic and shiny. The problem is that you can't see the product inside ...

Experience Speaks: Wayne Etchells

(Experience Speaks)

August 31, 2009, ... before the word was popular, when the metallic yarn indusry changed, and Metlon adapted the equipment to narrow-width slitting. We remain lean and flexible to market, economic, and industry demands.  ...

Disposing of Disposables

(First Glance)

August 31, 2009, For its innovative Needle-Trap label system, Schreiner MediPharm, Blauvelt, NY, earns a WorldStar Award in the pharmaceutical category from the World Packaging Organization. For its innovative Needle-Trap ...

Collectible Cups

(First Glance)

August 31, 2009, IGH Solutions, Inver Grove Hts., MN, partnered with Unifoil Corp. to manufacture the eye-catching metallic KROM cup. IGH Solutions, Inver Grove Hts., MN, partnered with Unifoil Corp. to manufacture the ...

Gravure Versus Flexo Printing Part 2

(Process Management)

July 31, 2009, ... in flexo and only one in gravure. The advantage of this is that gravure is capable of producing unmatched white ink opacity, vivid metallics and fluorescents, and many other specialty effects and functional ...

Silver and Gold

(First Glance)

June 30, 2009, ... Cylinder Award from the Gravure Assn. of America for its 15-lb Miracle-Gro paperboard package. The image required four process colors, a metallic silver, match blue, and water-based coating, and it was ...

Extreme Slitting

(Slit Main)

May 31, 2009, ... knows how to spin a yarn — both literally and figuratively. The Cranston, RI-based company was, in fact, established 62 years ago as a producer of metallic yarn used to add both strength and style to various ...

Gravure Shows Off Best

(News | New Products)

May 13, 2009, ... that comprises PET/Bonyl/aluminum foil/CPP. Judges felt the solids were very good and the halftones outstanding. Sharp black type and a fine metallic rule, where the laminate’s aluminum foil layer cleverly ...

Not Just a Pretty Face

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2009, ... an eye-appealing metallic background. AIMCAL Award Committee chair Steve Sedlak, sales manager for ESK, a Ceradyne co., Costa Mesa, CA, moderated the judging session that once again was hosted at PFFC' ...

How To Use Color Books

(Process Management)

February 28, 2009, ... publications within the Pantone Matching System address the popular desire for metallic colors, the niche requirements for pastels, and the need to visualize solid Pantone colors in CMYK and as tints. ...