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Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... material. Each of the cameras is linked to its own computer to analyze instantly the mass of data against pre-set criteria. All of the data is processed onto one screen and analyzed within 15 sec of ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ...  Internet MSDS Management System Now Available Online A web site is now available to aid in organizing and managing Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). MSDSBank.com has a library of MSDSs for common ...

Products

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October 31, 2000, ... test samples, while ensuring the quality of the product. Optional auto-feed provides continuous sample profiling, and a Windows-based data collection package provides real-time graphics and data management ...

Digital News for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ...  RESTON, VA, USA—According to the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing, and Converting Technologies (NPES), variable data and direct imaging presses will have a minor impact on short-term ...

Digital Products for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ... Measures 15 pts and calculates 31-pt spectral data; can convert data into a wide variety of objective color expressions, reports mfr. Features storage capacity for hundreds of measurements, said to enable ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... in 1999, a 6.7% increase over 1998, according to year-end data released by the Plastic Industry Producers' Statistics Group of the American Plastics Council (APC). Resin production climbed to 97.5 billion ...

Reporter Clips

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September 30, 2000, ... their spare parts order. The company has added a database of parts with graphics to make ordering even easier. Other updates to Fusion UV's web site include information about its six worldwide customer ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... quickstick, and peel tests. Uses a PC-based data acquisition system, which includes a color screen. Transducer Prevents Process Defects Dover Flexo Electronics, Rochester, NH; 603/332-6150; dfe.com Model ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... of operation; and characterization methods and data analysis. On July 20 D. Fennell Evans presented a class on key concepts and issues involved in designing effective adhesive systems. The afternoon ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... graphics-based single window to monitor all operations and components of each line. The system allows for more than supervision of the line, notes Carne. It includes quality tracking, historical-data trending, ...

Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits

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January 31, 2000, ... data with business, customer service, and order fulfillment information. Implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution can help to provide the data required to turn around situations of inefficient ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... office data banks. Knowing the equipment as well as I do, I formulated a different way of doing it. As I was writing the first patent, I tested [the process] on my own, with my own money, to see that it ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, ... by the use of heat/cool PID auto-tune function blocks. A communication port on the PC3000 provides a link for the transfer of data between the operator and the drive system. The Microcell software is ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... electronic files. These are rendered by a 3M Rainbow proofer directly from the digital image data sent by Macintosh PowerMac 8100 computers. The Rainbows can be directly calibrated to the known performance ...

On-line gauging brings big benefits to coating operation

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July 31, 1996, ... to one-sixth the strength of conventional beta gauge radiation sources. The approach required a rethinking of old assumptions about the source size, data processing, and mechanical engineering. And ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... tension and dryer set points, and machine speed. The Vision's computerized management information system stores all critical data on job settings, production, and operation. Instantaneous retrieval and ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

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May 31, 1996, ... data throughout all stages of the printing process using industry-standard formats. Ken Newton, president and CEO of Screen USA, explains that TDI encompasses all aspects, from the input of images and ...

Pay attention to flash points, and you won't get burne

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March 31, 1996, ... A Material Safety Data Sheet always provides the flash point for a material, if it has a flash point. Flash point influences container, shipping, storage, and use. The flammability of a product may ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... experienced sales and management team, supported by a computer network that's tied into the manufacturing plant in Bloomington and provides on-line, real-time tracking of order status and other key data. ...

Economic Forecast: More of the Same, Unless...

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December 31, 1995, ... to a recession." Instead of simply following GDP, Fry prefers to focus on industrial production, because the data are available on a monthly basis and are more timely. "It's not like GDP, where by the ...