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A look at the status of UV/EB curing

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June 30, 1996, ... This loss was partly offset by the growth of flexographic coatings. There may have also been some reduction of letterpress inks as these continue to be replaced by newer printing techniques. The growth ...

FTA winners show off strides in Flexo

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June 30, 1996, The Flexographic Technical Assn. competition finds 106 entries worthy of honors, proving that flexo has come a long way.The Flexographic Technical Assn. The Flexographic Technical Assn. competition finds ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... the norm is multicolor process packaging with tight registration, color accuracy, and fine screen graphics once thought beyond the range of flexographic printing. The result? Shorter run sizes, increased ...

Flexo label printer grows by leaps and bounds

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April 30, 1996, ... Express Label Co., Longwood, FL, catapulted a small hot stamp label start-up company into a broad-based flexographic label business that takes in well over $2 million a year. Along the way he has purchased ...

Plate advances bring flexo closer to offset

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April 30, 1996, ... typically, what printers require to get higher levels of reproduction is a tape featuring a high dynamic resiliency. "The photopolymers used to make flexographic printing plates today result in harder ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... expensive and thereby more accessible to converters. Some short cuts are actually flexo-related. For example, Adolph Gottscho Inc. has developed the high-speed "Gotavure" continuous-motion flexographic ...

Paper characteristics: starting the job right

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April 30, 1996, ... Flexographic Technical Assn. "And moisture content varies tremendously from roll to roll. It doesn't really affect the printing characteristics that much, unless it's really moist, but it has a tremendous ...

AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors

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March 31, 1996, ... the package. The Virtual Image structure is 1.2-mil BOPP, holographically embossed, metallized, mounted onto 21-pt clay-coated board, and flexographically printed. Printpack was the metallizer; AET ...

Today's printing presses are whatever you want them to be

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March 31, 1996, ... in prominence over others, it would certainly be flexography. Reports Dr. Jules Farkas, VP, Comco International, Milford, OH, "Since 1985 the number of flexographic presses in the flexible packaging ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... an idea of what kind of equipment they had to purchase. In October 1993 Romanski and Culver went to Germany to conduct a series of test runs on Windmoeller & Hoelscher Olympia Stellaflex flexographic presses. ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

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March 31, 1996, ... vapor barrier and resistance to puncture and cracking. The manufacturing process includes eight-color, flexographic, reverse printing, a single-pass adhesive lamination, and the application of the zipper. ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... goal attainable. More than a decade ago, when Clemson embarked on a full-fledged, hands-on approach to teaching flexographic education, the university knew it could not be done without the majority ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, ... the help of DIP Co., Bloomington, MN, a supplier of inking systems and a trusted Viking vendor and "partner." The 10-in., six-color, flexographic press was custom-designed for Viking by Flexo-Accessories/Propheteer, ...

Czech converter pursues new free-market direction

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August 31, 1995, ... as the source of Czech packaging information, was Jiri Drlik, a Kovohute principal and founder of the Czech Flexographic Technical Assn. Drlik, a genial, energetic executive, is methodically changing Kovohute ...

Clean air rules are changing & you can have a say

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May 31, 1995, ... of the three major ink technologies available to the flexographic printer of flexible packaging. This joint effort will research solvent-based, water-based, and ultraviolet-cured ink chemistries for specific ...

Converter combines profit with environmental concern

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May 31, 1995, ... or waterborne inks. Knowing what they faced in environmental restrictions, officials began their search for a new press. After reviewing specifications and costs for flexographic presses, the company ...

Printer responds to tougher environmental standards

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April 30, 1995, ... product, which is printed on flexographic plate-type printing presses, is delivered to such well-known major retailers as Gap Kids and the Limited. For years, Poly-Pak met its air quality permit requirements, ...

Consortium proves quality growth of flexo printing

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April 30, 1995, As a result, flexographic printing is now used to print sophisticated packaging and point-of-sale advertising, and process color is printed on a routine As a result, flexographic printing is now used to ...

Company develops line of cost-saving packaging

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March 31, 1995, ... and Central America. Geographically distributed technical service representation is also available for on-site customer support. Hargro's capabilities include flexographic printing, rotogravure printing, ...

CALENDAR TEMP

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December 31, 1994, ... MA (800/438-3111; www.harperimage.com). July 19–21: Introduction to Flexo, Sponsored by Harper National Flexographic Ctr., Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC (704/330-4411). July 19: Practical ...