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DOVIDs: Functional Beauty

(Magazine)

July 31, 2002, ... as signatures, photographs, etc., expands within areas as diverse as driving licenses, ID cards, and passports. The semi-transparent demetallized product or the high refractive index, transparent coatings ...

Products: Edited by Deborah Donberg

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... models cut cardboard cores, reportedly without creating sawdust. Machines accept cores with diameters ranging from 1.5-8 in. and wall thicknesses to ¾ in. Co. says a simple, quick modification allows machine ...

Digital Flexo Plates: From Pioneers to End-Users

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... offers some recent examples of projects he sent through digitally. Seville produces the wrappers for baseball and football cards, which are reverse printed on polyester laminated to a metallized oriented ...

Converters Strike Back

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... credit cards, Kurz has also developed Trustseal® brand protection. The Trustseal is produced with a sophisticated proprietary technology and is based on diffractive optics. Thanks to its extreme brilliance ...

RFID Labels a Good Read

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... coin-operated video games are now activated with credits stored on the user's X-Ident-produced RFID customer loyalty card. The system is very adaptable to many cashless payment applications, says Kuzma. ...

BRAND PROTECTION: The Converter's Rol

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... the consumer, such as a hologram on a credit card, or to be invisible to all but trained investigators. Features also may be termed “forensic,” requiring detection by a specially equipped laboratory. ...

What Do Decathletes, Converters, and Editors Have in Common?

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... fashion is the prime focus in the aftermath of most M&As. This takes Herculean effort. Some technologies or facilities are discarded or closed (along with the dedicated personnel); others are integrated, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... VP of international and commercial development for Polymer Extruded Products, reports constructing a Pak-Line shipping container is quicker and easier than the company's previous corrugated cardboard and ...

Coating and Laminating Special Report

(Archive)

February 28, 2002, ... but there is good potential for a range of vacuum-deposited coatings suited to lower-level security applications such as document protection, driver licenses, ID cards, etc., where transparent coatings ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... US currency. Showcasing its latest advances in card (I.D., membership, telephone, etc.) technology and security, Transilwrap Co. offered information on its line of Trans-Kote films, which the company says ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... Dunsirn exclusive distributor of its products for the narrow web flexographic market. As a result of this distribution agreement, printers can order Galerie Card paperboards directly through Dunsirn's Rapid-Roll ...

UV and EB: Making the Trek into Energy Curing

(Materials)

April 30, 2001, Electron beam accelerator, electrodeless microwave ultraviolet bulbs… Neither of these exotic-sounding expressions figured in a conversation between Captain Kirk and Scottie or Jean Luc Picard and Jordy ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 29, 2001, ... CT; 860/232-2323 Blister Packaging Goes Upscale AGI/Klearfold has a patent pending on a new concept in decorated carded packaging. BlisterPlus is similar to a conventional thermoformed blister in ...

Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... in the rewind rolls is prohibitive because of the amount of trim that must be discarded. The period length of windup oscillation required for optimum gauge band distribution has been found to be three-quarters ...

Products

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... user-friendly, is rated for a maximum speed of 450 mpm (1,500 fpm). Working width is 520 mm (20.5 in.) to 760 mm (30 in.). Can utilize film, foil, paper, cardboard, self-adhesive, and compound materials. ...

Forging Ahead into the Digital Printing Frontier

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... l background, Atlantic has been able to develop special packaging for such products as phone cards and gift certificates. The products require in-line folding and gluing. It's his ingenuity that makes the ...

The Need to Know Drives Pharma Labeling Market

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... package component supply is booming. Enjoying that boom is PCI Services, a Cardinal Health co. As a supplier of inserts, outserts, and labels, PCI Services rides the pharmaceutical boom in Puerto Rico. ...

Products

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... Topslit slitter/rewinder, which can process paper, cardboard, and flexible packaging materials. Especially recommended for rolls with a large diameter and materials that are suitable for single-shaft winding. ...

Printer Helps Customers Manage Printing Needs

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... companies set up sophisticated fulfillment operations that could rapidly take credit card orders over an 800 number and ship out purchased goods without delay. E-commerce has accelerated the process, since ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, ...  holiday cards. Eric Frank, VP for Direct Imaging & Digital Printing at Heidelberg, says, "The Make-A-Wish print projects give us an opportunity to show off the Speedmaster 74 DI's advantages at the show ...