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Support Your Rollers

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... applications, overly greased bearings often have higher rotational drag than I’d like to see in my idler rollers. If the live shaft roller has an exceptionally long shaft or journal (something that ...

Spot Less

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... purge rolls frequently. The drag on production rates from maintaining collection rolls needs to be considered. While the upfront costs of contact roll cleaners are not exorbitant, the longer-term operational ...

Booth Listings & Product Highlights

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... www.fife.com PFFC-ASAP 435 Convert in Single Pass Dragon technology allows the converting of multilayered, self-adhesive products in a single pass. Features a central converting drum with five processing ...

Narrow Web What's Ne

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... import dies for folding carton layouts. Provides the ability to drag and drop predefined SmartMarks, intelligent marks that position and size themselves automatically on a layout. PFFC-ASAP 320 Screening ...

Lakeside Installs Visual Scheduling Board

(Archive)

October 21, 2006, ... The planner may drag and drop jobs or manually number each job sequence, and the software organizes and links related machines across the entire board. New orders and plant data collection from the Advantzware ...

RFID Smart Labels Breaks New Ground in London

(Archive)

October 14, 2006, ... payback in pallet and case tagging and drag their feet. Marks and Spencer UK and Boekhandels Group Netherlands discussed exceptions to the UHF technical problems where the product is dry and non-metallic ...

2006 RFID What's News, Part

(Archive)

July 29, 2006, ... eased, cause technical problems and most consumer goods suppliers see no payback in pallet and case tagging and drag their feet. Marks and Spencer UK and Boekhandels Group Netherlands discussed exceptions ...

A Bunch of Hot Air

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... to provide some forced air to remove the moisture. A web moving in a duct is a drag pump but not a good one. Instrumentation Instrumentation should not be an afterthought, but far too often it is. Establishing ...

Are You Rough Enough?

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... tension, wrap angle, and traction coefficient can apply enough torque to overcome roller drag and inertial torque—no scratches. But as you want to run faster, with lower tension, or with larger radius, ...

Converting Rx for Bowed Rollers

(Web Lines)

October 30, 2005, ... and internal bearing drag. This concludes the side of the bottle instructions for the bowed roller “patient.” Next month, we talk with bowed roller prescribing “doctors” to help them determine what ...

Concave Rollers Pros & Cons

(Magazine)

June 29, 2005, ... thousands of dollars in waste. Even machining a concave profile into a metal roller is inexpensive compared to other anti-wrinkle roller options. Pro #2: Concave rollers are low drag and can be low ...

Get Out of the Scroll Business

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... a roll, going over to a roller, or dragging over a bar, you will induce stress and strain change through the thickness of the web. The inside of the curved web will go into or move toward compression. ...

Why Tension?

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... as roller drag, inertia, and any web-roller bonding forces. These roller factors really start adding up (or subtracting) when you have a zone with ten or more rollers. There is a minimum tension needed ...

New Products

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... for plastic flexible packaging companies. Scheduling software provides user with a global view of all jobs scheduled, real-time view of late jobs, and drag-and-drop capabilities. Displays specifics of ...

Slitting Debris: Cracking the Case

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... All three conventional slitting methods (razor, crush, and shear) require the freshly fractured edge to drag along the blade's flank as it passes downweb. The side load and relative motion during contact ...

Markzware Solution Providers to Demonstrate Automated Workflow Solutions at Drupa 2004

(News | New Products)

March 22, 2004, ... convert all of the most widely used desktop publishing applications such as QuarkXPress, InDesign, PageMaker, Word, Publisher, and others, to an XML-based format with a single drag-and-drop or batch process. ...

Friction Circles on a Winter's Da

(Magazine)

December 31, 2003, ... uses traction in the machine direction to overcome roller bearing and inertial drag. I've had clients tell me “the steering roller slips before the other idler rollers.” Since a steering roller has more ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... design features said to provide precision control in unwind, rewind, or intermediate tension control applications. Reverse current feature minimizes drag torque, allowing for use of the full torque range ...

Doctor Blade Systems: A Cure for What Ails Your Printing Process

(Magazine)

October 31, 2003, ... such gravure print problems as hazing and dragout.” Modern controls will automate an old and variable process, says Allison. “As my father told me after I complained as I came out of my first printing ...

PLACE Recognizes Best Entries from Recent Conference

(The Place)

October 31, 2003, Registrants at the 2003 TAPPI PLACE Conference and GLOBAL HOT MELT Symposium completed ballot forms to select winners for the Best Papers, Best Session, and Dragon Djordjevic Award. p>Providing practical ...