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Rotary Screen Printings Contribution to RFID

(Archive)

January 30, 2005, ... over the intended antenna path or area. This forms a negative image of the RFID antenna. After drying, the web goes through another printing station—to print the conductive strap underneath. The web is ...

Profit for Printers

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December 30, 2004, ... platforms are available with servo drives and every "add on" you might want—from hot and cold foil stations, rotary screen stations, rotary die-cutting, embossing and creasing units, and nip systems for ...

New Product Digest, Part 1

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December 30, 2004, ... NDC Infrared Engineering, Irwindale, CA; 626/226-8319; ndcinfrared.com The FG710 IR gauge performs what is said to be highly accurate on-line basis weight and thickness measurement of single- or multilayer ...

On the Move...

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December 30, 2004, ... Machinery, Rollprint Packaging Products, and Harper Corp. of America. People and Places in the Converting Industry Sun Chemical, Fort Lee, NJ, forms Sun Chemical Security, a new global business unit ...

Eliminate Pesky Bubbles

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November 29, 2004, ... which forms bubbles in the vessel. The solution should not flow vertically downward through the air but should be introduced against the vessel wall, preferably tangentially against the wall, which should ...

The Legislative Outlook for 2005

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November 29, 2004, ... the tax cuts passed this session. Those reforms included limiting the tax on dividends and capital gains and capping the tax rate for the highest earners. Permanently eliminating the estate tax will be ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

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November 29, 2004, ...  Creo launched its Digital Media (consumables) business in September 2003. Avery Forms RFID Unit PASADENA, CA—Avery Dennison Corp. has formed a business unit dedicated to the manufacturing and ...

Slitting Debris: Cracking the Case

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October 30, 2004, ... and equipment downtime. When you slit your product, you use knives to concentrate stress mechanically, breaking the web along a narrow line. The product splits when a crack forms. When the stress is ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 30, 2004, ... Genius LEX, and Genius digital. Performs automatic print defect detection, color monitoring, bar code verification, double-camera operation, and register presetting on flexo CI presses. Ink Jet Coating ...

What's New in Narrow We

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September 29, 2004, ... numerous operating platforms, including Mac OSX, Windows CE, and Windows 95 or later. Connectivity with Mac is USB, while Windows connections can be either the Serial or USB ports. Adding Coating Versatility ...

A New Habit

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September 29, 2004, ... 8½ by 11-in. business forms all day long at speeds of 500 fpm,” recalls Dahbura. “The fact that it was a platform press made it very flexible. Ever since then, I wanted a Gallus press, and the machine ...

Superfund Exempt Liability

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September 29, 2004, ... important protections from Superfund liability. The Brownfields Amendments After almost a decade of political wrangling over the scope of Superfund reforms, Congress finally succeeded in amending the ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

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September 29, 2004, ... New Product Development And Supply Chain System Platforms” sessions. At the conference for 2004, he developed and chaired another “Converter Spotlight” session and one on “Brand Authentication.” Wolf also ...

Products, Part 2

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September 29, 2004, ... automatic press control package, which is an option for company's PrintVision/Jupiter platforms, comprises three modules: the pRegister module for automatic register pre-setting and control; the new Presco ...

Analysis of Film Extrusion Problems with Flow Simulation

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September 29, 2004, ... narrower as the material melts and forms the melt pool behind the solid bed. This behavior can be simulated and used as a criterion for evaluating screw performance. Simulating the screw design in Fig. ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 1

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August 30, 2004, ...  December 2003 Matrics Inc. (matrics.com) forms a contract with International Paper (IP) (internationalpaper.com) to supply RFID tags for use in tracking inventory as part of IP's new warehouse tracking ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 2

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ... various forms of its tags. Hilder won't reveal the identity of the partners, but says applications range from courier packs to meat packaging and distribution, coin bags, and large reels of paper. All ...

New Inks Have a High IQ

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August 30, 2004, ... Inks that are sensitive to oxygen can take different forms. One such approach recently was described by the Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. A photoconductor (titanium dioxide) is used in the ink, ...

Antimicrobials: On the Fast Track

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July 31, 2004, ... inorganic or organic materials as well as their salts. Antimicrobial additives come in all sizes and various chemical forms. Among the most popular antimicrobial additives are organic acids, salts, vitamins, ...

The Signs of Shear Wrinkle

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July 31, 2004, ... leave a permanent mark in the web (known as a crease or hard wrinkle) or may even create small rips in paper webs. Wrinkles come in many forms (I covered tracking-type wrinkles earlier this year, see May ...