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Something new under the sun

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, Chamelacolors are long-lasting, light-activated inks that can be applied in-line by conventional printing presses onto any substrate.The decades-long Chamelacolors are long-lasting, light-activated inks ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... company's wide web presses, which were better suited for speed and efficiency on higher-volume jobs. With makeready times of up to one hour per color on the presses, Duralam could feasibly spend seven times ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... text to the output of final imposed, color-managed, and trapped plates. Not only does TDI allow a user to output to film, proof, or plate from the same source, but processing is only done once, eliminating ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

(Magazine)

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 ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

(Magazine)

February 29, 1996, ... between Clemson and the converting industry is the Printing/Converting Research Center (Print/Con). Print/Con houses two large presses. One is a Gemini 1290 DBF six-color, 47-in., central-impression, flexographic ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

(Magazine)

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, ...

Measurement technique improves metallized PP

(Magazine)

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 ...

Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1995, ... New Castle plant on any one of seven six-color flexographic presses from Paper Converting Machine Co. (PCMC) or Windmoeller & Hoelscher (W&H). The 175-in.-wide line typically slits the film down to ...

Future of video inspection systems seems bright.

(Magazine)

June 30, 1995, ... color or determining if printed bar codes are readable, and they provide little or no useful means for the operator to view the moving web. Line scan-technology has not been widely adopted as a process-control ...

Reynolds subsidiary in Spain benefits from technology transfer

(Magazine)

May 31, 1995, ... as a manual converter of paper bags and has grown into one of the first firms in Spain to use four-color flexo printing. Owned by US flex-pack giant, Reynolds Metals Co., the only European converting ...

Costa Rican converter expands Latin market

(Magazine)

April 30, 1995, ... polyethylene films. These include two four-color presses, one six-color press and an additional six-color press is scheduled for purchase this year. The company's bagmaking machines were designed by Gilberto ...

Building quality into the web printing process

(Magazine)

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 ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

(Magazine)

March 31, 1995, ... to less than 1% throughout the distribution chain. It fit seamlessly into existing packaging, distribution, and store-handling systems, and it reduced product loss by maintaining the meat's fresh color ...

Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.

(Magazine)

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 ...

State legislative action includes removal of 2 bans: 1994

(Magazine)

February 28, 1995, ... plastics, including an analysis of potential impacts from mixing biodegradable plastic resins with other plastic resins. * Colorado SB 144, restrictive packaging legislation, was defeated. The proposed ...

CALENDAR TEMP

(Magazine)

December 31, 1994, July 910: Color & Color Management, body:Sponsored by IMI Europe Ltd., Christ College, Cambridge, England (+44 1223 236920; www.imieurope.com). July 1012: July 9–10: Color & Color Management, body:Sponsored ...

Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age

(Magazine)

December 31, 1994, ... capable of imaging up to 43 in. x 80 in. Advanced software modules allow for electronic stripping, editing raster-image-processing files, color separating high-resolution scanned line art, the set up of ...