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On Print | Finishing & Digital Printing

(On Print)

August 04, 2013, ... it is best to sheet separately. Die-cutting and stripping are essential for label manufacture. Analog die tooling usually has the same diameter as the print cylinder. But digital printing is intended ...

Digital Label Finishing Systems Offers “Mini Press”

(Label/Tape News)

July 23, 2013, ... magnetic cylinder with flex dies. The unit is designed to accept most flexo tooling to 7.5 in. wide for ease of operation and rapid changeover. Reportedly has many features of full-size presses, including ...

W&H Gravure Press Comes in Many Variations

(News | New Products)

June 23, 2013, The HELIOSTAR S line includes TURBOCLEAN print cylinder cleaning and handles a wide range of materials   LINCOLN, RI | Windmoeller & Hoelscher reports the HELIOSTAR S rotogravure press line includes ...

Offset Printing | UBS Sees Cold Foil Applications Grow

(Carton Box)

April 01, 2013, ... the blanket cylinder, and exit it at the back, where it is rewound on to another axle mounted over the unit. But if you need to print large images like posters or banners, you may need to consider getting ...

T.W. Parkers Installs Gallus Flexo Presses

(News | New Products)

March 14, 2013, ... for ease of operation, sleeve technology on each station for the loading and unloading of print cylinders and anilox rolls. Its modular platform design concept allows for flexo and screen heads to be switched ...

Maxson Offers Accumulating Festoon

(News | New Products)

January 20, 2013, ... be impossible because of the weight of the unwinding roll. The design employs an air cylinder that spreads the festoon rolls apart or draws them together, a transducer, an electrical–pneumatic converter, ...

Show Preview | Graphics of the Americas

(Print)

January 03, 2013, ... innovations in flexography. The FlexoZone will feature a Nilpeter eight-color press with servo technology. It includes the clean inking system and quick release anilox rollers and plate cylinders. Also ...

On Print | Add Extended Gamut Printing to Your Lean List

(On Print)

December 17, 2012, Replacing spot colors with an extended gamut ink set offers substantial savings in time and materials and eliminates inventories of inks and cylinders or plates. Replacing spot colors with an extended ...

Codimag Press Has Quality, Cost Benefits

(News | New Products)

November 19, 2012, The VIVA 340 press from Codimag is said to combine benefits of offset and flexo, offering efficiency and deep colors   CEDEX, FRANCE | Codimag reports the VIVA 340 press was well received at last ...

Cerutti Adds QuadTech Register Control to its CAPS Make-Ready Capability

(News | New Products)

August 14, 2012, ... integrating the QuadTech Autotron register system into Cerutti’s press controls. The system enhances the press’s ability to pre-set the cylinder positions, and enables the press to lock into register seconds ...

Labelexpo Americas | Mission Possible

(Label/Tape)

July 12, 2012, ... modular expansion capability. Features a hot melt glue application with precise weight control, a die-cutting concept with cylinder quick-change and integrated waste removal. When it comes to personalizing ...

Omet Offers Digital Press for Flexpack

(News | New Products)

May 23, 2012, ... as multi-process and platform combination. Great support is offered by the use of the Monotwin Cut die-cutting unit offering high speed rates and no downtimes for die change or cylinder change. In addition, ...

Lithuanian Converter Opts for Speedmaster SX 74

(Flexpack)

May 21, 2012, ... of characteristic curves. This means that color presettings are even more precise and reproducible. A new surface technology for the exchangeable jackets of impression and transfer cylinders—PerfectJacket ...

drupa Preview | Exhibitors Launch New Products

(Carton Box)

March 08, 2012, ... feature quick-change blanket and plate cylinder sleeve adapters, which make infinitely variable repeat lengths easier and more affordable.     Heidelberg Highlights Short Run, Package Printing HEIDELBERG, ...

Inspection: Lighting the Way

(Controls)

August 21, 2011, ... the operator to cylinder setup errors. With enforcement of stringent health and safety regulations and packages in multiple languages and alphabets, an operator is ill-advised to check quality manually.  ...

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, ...

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 ...