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Coating Control, Quality, & Paperboard Packaging

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... folding cartons are coated with either a water-based or ultraviolet (UV)-cured coating. In fact, most new presses sold today include a coating unit. UV coatings are chosen for their gloss and chemical ...

The Good and Bad Sides of Offset Powder

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... may not be appropriate. Consider the case of a printed substrate that will undergo lamination with an adhesive to a clear film. The application may be a label on which gloss and an optically perfect ...

Flint Ink UV: "Ideal" for Packagin

(News | New Products)

April 09, 2002, Flint Ink says it has inks ideal for CD, DVD, video, and software packaging; UV ink systems that produce durable, razor-sharp, high-gloss images that enhance in-store marketing and merchandising appeal. ...

New Products for the Narrow Web Converting Industry

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... substrates, Xaar-Jet ink is said to possess excellent lightfastness properties and resistance to chemicals and scuffs. Also reported to offer a high-gloss appearance. The ink is 100% solids-acrylate-based ...

Printing Best Practices Review: The Digital Impact

(News | New Products)

March 21, 2002, ... management as well as issues, terms, and conditions of sale (including quotations, orders, delivery, production, schedules, and other issues); and a basic glossary of the printing industry's most common ...

Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2002, ... Americas under Trespaphan's gloss voided film patent. Trespaphan's Dr. Grein says, “We are very pleased with the settlement reached and consider this to be a major step in building alliances to leverage ...

What's New in Narrow We

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February 28, 2002, ... overlaminates are designed to enhance both the durability and esthetics of digitally printed graphics, says co. These 4-mil overlaminating vinyls, available with a gloss, matte, or luster finish, are said ...

FPA Honors Both Flexible & Flashy

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February 28, 2002, ... and provides a glossy appearance without the use of special overcoats. The four-color process allows Alcoa to produce the challenging vertical gradation down the length of each label. For a complete ...

Training 101

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ...  Provides CD-ROM courses delivered in modules of about 30 minutes, each on a separate CD. Includes module summary, short quiz, and an easy-to-use glossary. Also offers several flexography training courses ...

Coating and Laminating Special Report

(Archive)

February 28, 2002, ... consumables, which are printed on a quality thin sleeving board by any of the standard roll-to-roll printing processes, and in-line overlaminated or ultraviolet-varnished to give a high-gloss, matte, textured, ...

Shamrock Gifts and Bags Utilize UV

(News | New Products)

February 19, 2002, Shamrock Corp. reports it has recently installed a Prime UV multiple-lamp system. A converter of gift wrap and bags to high-end retail stores, Shamrock installed the 600-watt per in. lamp on the operation's ...

Overcoats Offer Protection (and You Don't Have to Button Up

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, ... These characteristics obviously relate directly to the final application. A very common requirement is that an overcoat must impart gloss. This is generally for esthetic appeal. In other cases, an overcoat ...

Materials

(Magazine)

January 30, 2002, ... Turner Falls, MA; 413/863-3171; nex-films.com Inflex grade M927 film features a 22% increase in gloss over co.'s standard pouch film and is said to offer enhanced stiffness and seal characteristics. Improved ...

Mark Andy/Comco Flexo Feast Feeds Minds of Converting Industry

(News | New Products)

January 01, 2002, ... advantages EB in coatings: high gloss, low odor, no odor, good for food packaging (ideal for food packaging, actually), ideal for the environment, and very price competitive from both the capital and an ...

Reporter Clips

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December 31, 2001, ... PVC. The 360-deg label has room for graphics, nutritional facts, and a bar code, and shrinks to the curves of the bottle. The glossiness of the label and the colorful and familiar graphics reportedly make ...

Reporter Clips

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November 30, 2001, ... finish to communicate an ‘earthy’ image,” explains Label Graphics' sales director Jake Ritz. “We wanted to stay away from shine, opting for a more natural look. The PP also has a high-gloss white iridescence ...

Automated Sortation System Boosts Customer Satisfaction

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, ... pressroom contains a large-format, eight-color Planeta press on which the company has printed 21 colors simultaneously by splitting the ink fountains. This press also includes a unit for applying high-gloss, ...

Materials

(Magazine)

November 29, 2001, ... Ideal for Flow-Wrapping Applications UCB Films, Smyrna, GA; 877/UCB-FILM; ucb.be Propafilm OFS, designed for flow-wrapping pizza, is said to give an eye-catching glossy finish with a shrink performance ...

One-Dimensional Converter Expands Its Reach

(Magazine)

October 31, 2001, ... high-impact graphics and recently installed an electron beam coating line to provide high gloss and greater label durability. The Scottsburg facility houses two nine- and ten-color, 40-in Schiavi gravure ...

European Conference Draws Large Audience

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... than neighboring positions. In film, the thick lane will often have different optical properties such as being less transparent or having different gloss characteristics. In coating, a variation of raw ...