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Golden Cylinders Go to Gravure's Very Bes

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April 30, 2000, ... large format available with gravure, the finishing process was streamlined when two costly steps were eliminated. Packaging Paper Sonoco Flexible Packaging, Hartsville, SC, was honored in the Packaging ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

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April 30, 2000, ... which Glenn notes has rugged construction and discrete automated controls that put the finishing touch to the extremely high quality rolls this line makes. "The real beauty of this line," says Glenn, ...

Converted Solutions Slitter/Rewinder Boosts Productivity on Laminating Line

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March 31, 2000, ... which put together a package of roll unloading and roll extraction to make the entire finishing end of the line as smooth and efficient as practical, says Squires. He explains that unloading of the ...

Folder/Gluer Broadens Markets for Contract Converter

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March 30, 2000, ... a specialty packaging converter in 1978. That's when the company purchased its first new press, a Consolidated platen die-cutter, and earned a reputation as a finishing house for packaging printers. The ...

Drupa 2000 Celebrates Change on a Global Scale

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February 29, 2000, ... and finishing." Organizers also report that the show's recent shift of focus recognizes a "new, digital infrastructure in the printing industry. It's becoming more difficult to draw clear lines among individual ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ... " at Autotype Americas, says Lee. "We're finishing up our internal audits now for ISO-9002 certification. This process has helped validate and improve our quality systems and goes hand in hand with our commitme ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ...  to learn from other people and masters of the trade. I worked for the Banta company, a Fortune 500 printer, for more than five years. That's where I started to learn in-line finishing systems on web offse ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

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November 30, 1996, ... variety of prepress, printing/laminating, bagmaking, and finishing equipment. Its prepress operation uses a Bieffebi rubber platemaking system; the pressroom floor houses bagmaking machines from Battenfeld ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... the prep and finishing costs. Finished labels are inspected, shrink-wrapped, and packed for shipment. What You See Is What You Get While Walle does little actual label design work, its prepress facilities ...

Dutch converter retakes his company

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July 31, 1996, ... paper, and plastic film from suppliers in Germany, France, Scandinavia, England, and Belgium. The finishing department includes slitters from Goebel and Kampf, embossers, and die-cutters (designed and ...

Gravure winners go for gold

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July 31, 1996, ... Services Inc. for marbled toilet seats: Judges noted printer's ability to reformulate ink hues to accommodate a high-temperature lamination finishing process; * M.S. Chambers & Son for duck border wallcovering: ...

A look at the status of UV/EB curing

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June 30, 1996, ... industries comprise about one-half of the total volume. The more mature overprint coatings have captured a significant share of the market for high-gloss finishing of point-of-purchase signage, folding ...

MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

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May 31, 1996, ... includes metallizing, coating, and laminating, as well as slitting and finishing processes. The company runs polyester, polypropylene, polyimide, and metal foils for window films as well as for industrial ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

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May 31, 1996, ... system (comprising the TC-P1080 exposure device and the TP-80 laminator), and the TaigaSPACE electronic prepress finishing system. In addition to debuting its TDI and CTP systems, Screen USA has introduced ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... for both the printing and impression cylinders. It is also available with other efficiency options, including high-performance drying for water-based inks and ultraviolet dryers, as well as in-line finishing ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... are taught design, image creation, image processing, assembly, plate production, printing, and finishing. Every student who graduates from the program will have done at least 25 press runs, including work ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, ... solve the perplexing foaming problem. Viking Label and Packaging, which serves as a beta site for several equipment manufacturers, was aware that DIP was putting the finishing touches on products specific ...

Die-cutting developments continue unabated.

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September 30, 1995, ... is designed for die-cutting thermal film and paper. Its durability is enhanced by the company's patented metal finishing process. The Marathon is a die that's fully hardened by the mfr.'s specialized heat-treating ...

Cylinders and rolls - a quiet revolution

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July 31, 1995, ... grip but an adhesive release. "You can have the best of both worlds," says Dr. David Rosium, president of Finishing Technologies, Neenah, WI, and author of the soon-to-be-released book The Mechanics of ...