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The Third Wave: An Iron Tale about the Business of Print, Vol. 4

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... Robert Young, OEM Director of Sales, Microsoft Corp. Commercial printing expansion--into services such as fulfillment, direct mail, and database management--is seen as a way to help printers diversify ...

RFID Labels a Good Read

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... bad, or if a label in a field suddenly stops working after three months. But as those pilot projects become commercial, those are going to be the critical things that differentiate the really good RFID ...

Converters Look for Safe Harbor Amid Choppy Waters

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... of 2002, with a meaningful upturn beginning after midyear and accelerating rapidly in 2003.” NAPL, which focuses on the $88 billion commercial printing industry, made its official observations as an ...

MAN Roland, Agfa, and Others Give Global View of Package Printing

(News | New Products)

March 21, 2002, ... Corp. is a packaging and commercial printing company located in Natrona Heights, PA, USA. Prepress Performance The stars of the prepress show, reports Man Roland, were solutions from Artwork Systems ...

Converting Industry News

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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 ...

Graphics of the Americas 2002: Business Heats Up in Miami

(News | New Products)

February 24, 2002, ... it's not just commercial printing that can benefit from Latin America's budding markets. "It's about 40 years behind North America [in terms of progressive growth]. Up until recently, women did not work, they ...

The Third Wave: An Iron Tail about the Business of Print, Vol. 2

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, ... a particular job. If the customer will release this information, it can be a telling signal about the degree of pressure on converters to "get the work." In a recent study of similar commercial print jobs, ...

Electron Beam Curing in Flexible Packaging

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... equipment encourage the increased use of this type of material in flexible packaging applications. Energy curing use in packaging decoration and protection has been in place since the first commercial ...

Package Printing and Prepress to Be Focus of MAN Roland and Agfa Events

(News | New Products)

August 26, 2001, ... (including CTP systems for commercial printing). Mfr. says event will focus on the new functions added to the award-winning PDF-based workflow-management system, Apogee Series 2; the medium-format Galileo ...

Products

(Magazine)

July 31, 2001, ... user interface. Corrugated Thermoformers Produce Strong Packages Gralex Inc., Lewis Center, OH; 614/436-6634 TP Series corrugated thermoformers produce food trays plus a variety of commercial, industrial, ...

Print 01 Will Showcase Converting Technologies

(Magazine)

July 31, 2001, ... was guided by two major market trends: High quality printing has become a key competitive advantage in the packaging industry; and many commercial printers have started to view package printing as a major ...

Q&A with Prepress Provider Agfa

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... proofing for packaging is very important. Also [we'd like] to bring proofing products down to the same economical price as you find in the commercial market. That's been a big difference. And you mentioned ...

Jet Inks, Colorants, and Packaging What's Ahead

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ...  Commercial use of pigments in jet inks goes back at least a decade. Use of pigments in jet inks developed in Japan, but it has moved to many applications in the US. While the use of carbon black and ...

DIGITAL SOLUTIONS NEWS

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... the co.'s first European installation of the Xcalibur VLF (very large format) computer-to-plate (CTP) system. According to Agfa, Limmatdruck AG, a large packaging and commercial printing co. near Zurich, ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... label packaging, and lamination markets. The company is expected to go commercial with the new capacity during the first quarter of 2001. Plastic Suppliers also reports a newly designed web site in ...

Innovative Problem-Solving: Advances in the Industry

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... and a 96-in. coater/laminator, plus a Faustel pilot coater, the only commercially made machine in the plant. The 62-in. machine is designed for thin film and foils (0.00025 in.). The two 80-in. machines ...

In-Mold Labeling Makes Strides Worldwide

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... the injection molding process, and the shape and size of a molded product. Some film types developed especially for label applications are commercially available. Michael Bethge of Avery Dennison in ...

Printer Helps Customers Manage Printing Needs

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... ago, when several acquisitions increased the commercial printing segment of Wallace's business to nearly 50% of overall sales, on a par with its forms, labels, and packaging duties. "We picked up a lot ...

Digital News for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... SP process. We are now working with several leading press manufacturers to bring this technology to commercial reality in about two years." Xeikon to Integrate Agfa Digital Printing Systems MORTSEL, ...

Release Papers: New Trends Are Driving the Market

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... printing machines without curling or misfeeding. While commercial digital imaging has yet to reach the projections put forth when the technology was launched, it is a growth sector that looks more robust ...