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Siemens Announces New Power Modules

(Controls)

August 11, 2014, ... new power modules can also be mounted side-by-side without derating. A push-through version is also available with the heat sink extending out the rear of the cabinet. As a result, the new PM240-2 power ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2014 Enhances Focus on Package Printing

(Label/Tape)

August 04, 2014, ... and flexible packaging. The sessions will run for 45 minutes and will take place at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. all three days of the show. The Inkjet Trail will put some of the available inkjet technologies ...

Sun Chemical Is HD Plate Certified by Esko

(News | New Products)

August 02, 2014, ... uses a nitrogen flow environment to create a flat-top dot. SunGraphics HD plates reportedly help achieve higher ink densities, reduce or eliminate pinholing, improve print quality in the shadow areas, ...

Striving to Improve

(Static-Beat)

July 17, 2014, In our business, we share the desire to get better every day. Striving to improve is in the DNA of modern business … especially manufacturing. Certainly, every day brings new challenges and opportunities ...

Ideal Labels Delivering Complete Digital Flexo Solution

(News | New Products)

July 15, 2014, Esko CDI 2530 plate imager and DeskPack software give label provider quality boost MIAMISBURG, OH | Esko reports that Ideal Labels Inc., a provider of pressure-sensitive labels for print companies ...

Performance Pkg. of NV Launches New Cap for Pouches

(Bag Pouch)

June 11, 2014, Consumer safety and ergonomics highlight patented SipP cap LAS VEGAS, NV | Performance Packaging of Nevada introduces the SipP cap, a new design for flexible spouted pouches used for such products ...

DuPont Adds New Cyrel Plate

(News | New Products)

June 02, 2014, The Cyrel FAST DFUV thermal process plate is designed for use with UV inks and is said to save time and money when running high-end substrates   WILMINGTON, DE | DuPont Packaging Graphics has introduced ...

Color Ad Packaging Installs DuPont Exposure System

(News | New Products)

May 14, 2014, ... and delivers improved solid ink density and 1:1 image reproduction without additional platemaking steps. “Business is bursting at Color Ad—we’ve nearly doubled in size over the past year, and incorporating ...

Techkon Announces Color Control

(News | New Products)

April 28, 2014, ... to sellable color quickly, decrease ink and paper waste by more than 50%, increase production with more jobs per shift, and maintain consistent print results. PressLink Ink Presetting calculates ink ...

FTA Hands Out Awards for Excellence

(News | New Products)

April 27, 2014, ... a color analysis software tool that uses a Predictive Analysis algorithm to determine the best ink density to achieve optimum color reproduction. Predictive Analysis is an adaptation of the Beer-Lambert ...

Techkon USA Offers Print Color Control System

(News | New Products)

April 19, 2014, PressLink closed loop print color control solution offers many automatic features to reduce waste and increase quality   DANVERS, MA | Techkon USA supplier of densitometers, spectrophotometers, and ...

Flint Group Announces New Digital Plate

(News | New Products)

March 30, 2014, The nyloflex ACE UP Digital high-durometer flexo plate, suited for use with water-based inks, is said to provide excellent ink transfer   STUTTGART, GERMANY | Flint Group Flexographic Products announces ...

Digital Prepress | Bridging the Gap Between Flexo and Offset

(Print)

March 30, 2014, ... we couldn’t get those fine highlight dots and couldn’t reproduce a lot of colors out of four-color process,” he says, adding that ink density was another major issue they faced with flexo. “Press operators ...

Flint Group Plates Are Suited for Security Printing

(News | New Products)

March 12, 2014, ... an optimal ink transfer and thus an excellent solid density of the ink, and the aluminum base provides a high level of dimensional stability, ensuring high register accuracy and printing quality. Plates ...

Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2014, ... inks reveal and obscure the metallic effects of the metallized film. Earthy, Fresh & Flashy The Marketing Award in the Food Packaging Category went to Celplast Metallized Products, Toronto, ON, Canada, ...

On Print | Measuring Print Quality Within and Across Platforms

(On Print)

February 19, 2014, ... People associated with the traditional technologies have a huge amount of accumulated experience about machine, ink, and substrate. There is more of an issue in establishing set ups and maintaining them ...

Holography | Industry Developments Give Packagers an Edge

(Trends/Management)

February 12, 2014, ... no plastic and a minimal amount of aluminum—so it can be recycled as easily as printed paper—while striking source reduction means it carries 20 times less metal per square inch than metallic ink and can ...

On Print | Digital Printing: New Year Resolution

(On Print)

January 19, 2014, ... that we use when teaching new operators about inkjet are explained first. The primary driver for tight resolution control in inkjet that I see is text and bar coding on labels and packaging. Clear text ...

Static Dissipator Performance

(Static-Beat)

December 23, 2013, Here, I provide my analysis of static dissipator neutralization efficiency. While this is a "first principles" analysis making it only approximate, it provides two important insights and a key quantitative ...

DuPont Offers New Family of Flexo Plates

(News | New Products)

December 13, 2013, ... highest possible solid ink density from existing standard digital workflow. The first two entries in the new family of plates are Cyrel DSP (solvent) and Cyrel FAST/thermal (DFP), said to be suited to ...