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Fiber's Frien

(Label/Tape)

June 15, 2011, ... Cylinder Offset) web press. The RB Dwyer Group, Melville, NY, helped Barn Dad Innovation Nutrition, a div. of Angle Foods, launch its Ultra Fiber DX product with a shrink-sleeve label printed on an RDP ...

FTA Gets Flexo Engines Started at Forum/Info*Flex

(Flexography)

May 31, 2011, ... a thinner plate means changing to a larger diameter sleeve or cylinder to compensate for the difference. In either case, the transition will be gradual. Start with a common repeat for testing, and convert ...

Roll-Sleeve Film: Helping Shape Brand Identity

(Label/Tape)

May 10, 2011, ... using a vacuum method. When the film comes into contact with the spindle, or cylinder, the resulting vacuum holds it to the surface for cutting and seaming. A laser then seals the seam into place, readying ...

FTA Gets Flexo Engines Started at Forum/Info*Flex

(Flexography)

May 03, 2011, ... to a thinner plate means changing to a larger diameter sleeve or cylinder to compensate for the difference. In either case, the transition will be gradual. Start with a common repeat for testing, and convert ...

Do You Want Nips with That? Part 2

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

April 30, 2011, ... ratio of high-to-low tension across a wrapped cylinder. To calculate the maximum ratio of any roller, raise Euler's number, e (2.7183), to the power of COF times the wrap angle in radians. For example, ...

BEST OF SHOW

(Magazine)

April 30, 2011, ... The attractive label features nine colors printed on a lamination of polyethylene/foil/polyethylene terephthalate (PET) using Rotoflex inks on a Ten press with indirect laser-engraved cylinders. Judges ...

Hot, Hot, Hot!

(Magazine)

April 30, 2011, ...  Red Hot Family Pack in the Heat Shrinkable-Less Than 12% category. Nine colors are printed on PET glycol using Sun Chemical inks on a Chesnut press with cylinder engraving by Alliance Graphics. Th ...

Silver Really Shines

(Magazine)

April 30, 2011, ... 650 press. Southern Graphic Systems engraved the cylinders. Judges like the extremely tight print, emboss, and cut-to-fold register. Crisp print reproduction — specifically the full coverage metallized ...

RB Dwyer Group Shrink Label Helps Launch Ultra Fiber DX

(Label/Tape News)

April 06, 2011, The RB Dwyer Group helps Barn Dad Innovation Nutrition, a div. of Angle Foods, launch its newest product, Ultra Fiber DX, with a shrink sleeve label printed on its IVCO (Infinitely Variable Cylinder Offset) ...

Parfait Perfection

(Label/Tape)

April 04, 2011, Using an Infinitely Variable Cylinder Web Offset Press (IVCO) from RDP Marathon, The R.B. Dwyer Group, Anaheim, CA, is printing gravure-quality shrink labels for B.C. Bundt's “Walk-Away Parfaits” with zero ...

Web Lines: Limitations of Vacuum Pull Rollers

(Web Handling)

February 28, 2011, ... this will add to the complexity and cost of the system, especially if you need to run varied web widths. VPR holes may mark your web or coating | Some VPRs are simply perforated cylinders with large holes ...

Web Cleaning: To Contact or Not?

(Web Cleaning)

January 31, 2011, ... installation, the Cerutti was stopped an average of 16 times per month because of damaged/worn doctor blades or cylinder rollers, debris in the ink pan, streaking and hickies, or web breaks. This equated ...

RotoMetrics Opens New Converting Technology Center

(Die-Cutting News)

December 01, 2010, ... to achieve higher run speeds compared to other conventional systems because of a unique, oil encapsulated hybrid mandrel which allows for even heat distribution across the cylinder surface. Electrical ...

Short Path to Versatility

(Flexography)

November 30, 2010, ... elements were used in the development of this press for the Stratus Group. For example, plate cylinders and anilox rollers are designed as sleeves, thus enabling very fast job changeovers. This benefit ...

Global Packaging Adds Irisleeve

(Prepress)

October 31, 2010, ... sleeve/cylinder automatically using the taper-slide, and the automated plate table/application roller assembly applies the polymer plate to the stickyback with exacting precision. We recently did a production ...

TLMI Awards: Challenges Met

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... is printed using solvent-based inks with a flood solvent varnish. Cylinders are engraved at 200 lpi due to the label's intricate artwork. Multi-Color is honored with additional first place awards for ...

Web Lines: Q&A on Roller Deflection

(Web Handling)

October 31, 2010, ... the roller to resist deflection | Larger diameter, tiffer materials, thicker cylinder walls, narrower widths. Optimize your process to reduce the effects of deflection | Avoid long rising vertical ...

Web Lines: Mission-Detect Nip Variations

(First Glance)

August 31, 2010, ... cylinders. For small indentations, the footprint length will increase proportional to the load (in force per width) raised to the 1.5 power. A 20% footprint contact length increase reveals a 31% load ...

Green Converting: Leading the Pack

(Flexography)

August 31, 2010, ... in the platemaking process. “There are no upfront costs for cylinders and plates, which can be in six figures quickly, depending on how large a line of products you are trying to produce,” he says.  ...

Investing in Short Runs

(Label/Tape)

August 31, 2010, ...  The EDM200, which uses sleeve technology for both print and anilox cylinders and works with chambered doctor blade technology, is designed to work mainly as an overprinting machine. Rotocontrol ...