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Innovations in E-Commerce: Converter Benefits

(Magazine)

September 30, 2002, ... Goof-Proof, Multimedia E-Mail: Used to be, sending an HTML e-mail — essentially an e-mail with all the color, graphics, movement, and other special effects of a Web page — was a dice game. People either ...

Flex-Pack Converter Has a Clear View...

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September 30, 2002, ... with a new Paper Converting Machine Co. (PCMC) Vision II eight-color press, along with a J.M. Heaford video mounter. The Vision II has a chambered ink metering system and BST Pro Mark Model ekr 1000 web ...

Foiling Counterfeiters

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July 31, 2002, ... after the advent of the Xerox color copier. The then-president of American Bank Note felt that “the best way to thwart the potential impact of the color copier” on currency counterfeiting would be through ...

It Takes the Talent and Effort of Many to Make Any Job a Success

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July 31, 2002, ... print publication, PFFC graphic artist Michael Koch and I are more familiar with four-color process reproduction. We learned how difficult it can be to design for holography. The holography portion ...

Our Newest Rivals

(Magazine)

July 31, 2002, ... change color by the warmth of your hands. Or what about embedding nanotext for security labels? Nanotechnology companies quickly are becoming converters' new customers, suppliers, and competitors. Bottom ...

Komori Rolls Out Offset Innovation with Style

(News | New Products)

July 17, 2002, ... more versatility. ROLLING MEADOWS, IL, USA—On July 16, Komori America Corp. introduced its new six-color offset press to members of the trade media, including PFFC. Komori unveiled the 40-in. LS40 amid ...

FTA Needs Flexo Judges

(News | New Products)

July 11, 2002, ...  FTA says the competition is expected to attract more than 600 entries, and work submitted will be segregated into line, screen, and four-color process classifications, with all gold medal winners placed ...

Converting Industry News

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May 31, 2002, ... noticed a print quality problem on its six- and seven-color presses. Upon investigation, prepress coordinator Randall Johnston learned dot gain had increased to 38%. The company turned to Flint Ink's Packaging ...

Digital Flexo Plates: From Pioneers to End-Users

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... in the publication and commercial printing arenas have “blazed the trail” for us in the packaging world. They were the first to implement digital prepress solutions, digital proofing, color management, ...

Presses Have Converter in Fine Form

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May 31, 2002, ... has all but displaced forms in a number of commodity industries, such as credit card slips. “The forms business has been dropping,” notes O'Connor, president of Colorweb Inc., Dallas, TX. “It's been hit ...

BST Pro Mark Studies Register Control Benefits for CI Flexo

(News | New Products)

May 27, 2002, ... (FTA) Forum in Washington, DC., in early May, the study was conducted by Bst Pro Mark's VP of marketing, John Thome, and its "goal…was to understand how color-to-color register typically is set on a flexo ...

The Standard Standards

(News | New Products)

May 22, 2002, ... have been greatly enhanced. Additional areas of modification include: color workflow, eCommerce, finishing, and device capability description. The new specification can be downloaded [for free] at cip4.org. ...

Converters Strike Back

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... There are many others, from chip and chipless technologies to innovations in security inks. Another recent technology is taggants, individual multicolored particles that can be used for tracking and tracing ...

Migration and Compliance Testing Issues

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March 31, 2002, ... of the intended conditions of use. For example, you should assess whether the substance is a food contact item per se, like a plastic film; a component of a food-contact item, like a colorant or plasticizer; ...

Every Trick in the Book

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... of PFFC, is presented to the one entry voted most outstanding in material, technique, and design. Both label and brochure utilize Proma's 60# metallized HoloPRISM paper, litho-printed in four-color process ...

Advantage Flexo? Carton Converters Convene at FFTA

(News | New Products)

March 17, 2002, ... May 5, from 8 to 11 am. Details about the session follow. Color Control for Packaging: Dr. Bruce Myers will kick off the session. "I'm reviewing the variables involved with the physical and colorimetric ...

Cost-Competitive Digital Quality: Learn How at FREE Flexo Forum

(News | New Products)

March 13, 2002, ... that uses dots for CMYK and spot colors? Halftone proofing technology with PMS and special colors is available Point Light Exposure , Gene Alaura, OLEC Point Light vs. Digital exposures ...

The Buck Stops

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... a six-color, 1,020×720-mm sheet-fed press with coater. “The web press takes the place of separate operations for foil blocking, cutting and creasing, and the hand stripping department. It needs far fewer ...

Anilox Roll Inspection: So Simple, So Important

(Magazine)

December 31, 2001, ... pigment color of the last ink used and obviously must be cleaned. Score lines, caused by contamination in the ink system, are easily detected without magnification. They should be identified, documented, ...

One-Dimensional Converter Expands Its Reach

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October 31, 2001, A pioneer in in-mold labeling, Multi-Color Corp. makes some acquisitions that bring shrink sleeve and p-s labels into the mix. Today, Multi-Color Corp. is a $75 million label converter with expertise ...