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Anilox roll advancements raise the quality of flexo

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November 30, 1996, ... finished products," according to Patterson. In addition, leading ink manufacturers have developed inks with enhanced pigmentation, allowing the printer to use less ink to achieve the same desired color ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... as a laminate. Press: Demos will be run on wide web, central-impression presses at speeds of 300-500 ft/min. Color: Parts of the demo image will contain line and process colors with process tones ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... million last fiscal year - a 600% increase! And it wasn't by following the above advice. Walle, a converter and printer of high quality, multicolor labels, has concentrated on gaining total, start-to-finish ...

New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP

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August 31, 1996, ... leading to the appearance of haze, the development of off-flavors, and increased color. One of the major oxidative reactions is the oxidation of linoleic acid, which gives beer a "cardboard-like" flavor; ...

Web-inspection system supports label operation

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July 31, 1996, A TruColor Video web-inspection system is bringing multiple benefits, including higher quality, to Label America.According to one of the cornerstones A TruColor Video web-inspection system is bringing ...

Flexo label printer grows by leaps and bounds

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April 30, 1996, ... our business today. I'd say 90 or 95 percent of our business is flexo," says Mintz. "We eventually added a four-color Comco Cadet with ultraviolet capability, and, when the time came to add still another ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... color match was achieved at 10:55 P.M. At 11:21, just 40 days after the press was delivered and a little more than a half-hour before deadline, the first roll came off the press. Within an hour the pressmen ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ... client base. Customers ranging from Motorola and Black & Decker to Maybelline Cosmetics and the US Customs Service all, in turn, rely on Topflight for their high quality, color process labels. The company ...

Measurement technique improves metallized PP

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November 30, 1995, ... of identifying and quantifying a pit defect. In Figure 3A we see an image taken through a standard white light microscope, which shows the presence of a circular defect. Figure 3B shows a color-coded topographical ...

Video web inspection: the view from the press floor.

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September 30, 1995, ... industry itself. These operators control presses ranging from wide web to narrow, with press speeds as fast as 900 fpm or as slow as 150 fpm, printing as few as two colors or as many as ten. The end products ...

Converter combines profit with environmental concern

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May 31, 1995, ... lines which use ten different substrates. A four-color Comco Commander flexo press featuring an 18-in. processing width was selected. "The decision to go the way we did resulted from Comco having a demo ...

Buyer beware when comparing video systems

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May 31, 1995, ... you could be told that a PCI bus makes a big difference to image quality and color reproduction, when in fact it has nothing to do with color reproduction or image quality. How would you know? In this ...

Building quality into the web printing process

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April 30, 1995, ... already been produced. Take color for example: Do you have color standards established for each color on each job? How is on-press color measured and compared against those standards, and how often ...

Densitometer provides printing parameters

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February 28, 1995, ... intelligent portable densitometers. The model is the most basic of the series and provides only the most used color printing parameters of filter-density measurements and automatic calculations of density ...

Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.

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February 28, 1995, ...  at speeds that are far in excess of your own processing speeds," he said. "We are familiar with control of coating weights, color consistency of inks and many of the other variables that affect our ow ...

Dutch converter expands in worldwide flex-pack market

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January 31, 1995, ... machines capable of printing up to eight colors. Nordwest Packaging produces a variety of flexible materials based on paper. In the Netherlands, KNP BT operates Form Plastics, Grootegast, which serves ...