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Retrofit brings older sheeters back to life.

(Magazine)

August 31, 1995, ... (single rotary) knives. Short sheet runnability - The minimum and maximum sheeted length for a fixed-bed sheeter is a function of the knife cylinder diameter. Although the maximum practical range is ...

Czech converter pursues new free-market direction

(Magazine)

August 31, 1995, ... laminators. All inks are purchased from Germany, and varnishes are produced internally. Rotogravure cylinders are etched in-house. Kovohute's product mix consists exclusively of converted aluminum foil ...

Mead expands in-house capabilities with sheeter

(Magazine)

July 31, 1995, ...  The cutting head contains a pair of rotary knife cylinders that, when rotated, produce a true scissor cut across the web. In addition, a cyclic mechanism controls the rotation of the cylinders so that ...

Consortium proves quality growth of flexo printing

(Magazine)

April 30, 1995, ... Flexographic printing has recently taken on a new dimension with the introduction of photopolymer plates, eight-color central impression cylinder presses, aqueous-based inks, doctor blade metering systems ...

Computerized dispensing provides ink management

(Magazine)

March 31, 1995, ... order are becoming more elaborate, which means more cylinders and more inks for each run," he said. "Our four-color libraries comprise 12,000 colors supporting about 2,000 designs." Transprint prints ...

Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.

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February 28, 1995, ... cylinders." A disadvantage of embossing onto paper is that it will shrink. "Although the shrinking of the hologram on the paper could be potentially devastating, paper seems to be consistent in shrinkage, ...

Quality, waste get action from suppliers of sheeters.

(Magazine)

January 31, 1995, ... board and said there's more activity for board than paper in this area. "With the two knife cylinders coming together and making the cut, the cutting action itself offers better quality work. It's especially ...

Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age

(Magazine)

December 31, 1994, ... network featuring direct-to-gravure control of cylinder engravers. It's designed to reduce the digital cylinder-imaging processing bottleneck in the gravure process and reduce production costs and turnaround ...

German company develops recovery concept for plastics

(Magazine)

December 31, 1994, ... are preset off the machine. The perforating tool is interchangeable like the plate cylinder in a flexographic printing press. The perforating blades are preset so it isn't necessary to make further adjustments ...