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Signs Say Economy Slowing Down, Recession Unlikely

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December 31, 2000, ...  on overall unemployment, because people find jobs elsewhere. Total employment growth has slowed but not enough to cause the unemployment rate to rise significantly; it's just slowed to a rate that is mor ...

Printer Helps Customers Manage Printing Needs

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December 31, 2000, ... that relates to the printing and distribution of materials, including inventory management, job tracking, and distribution logistics. The company then recommends and implements strategic solutions using ...

What's New in Narrow We

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December 30, 2000, ... change from one job to another in minutes. Change-Over Quickly with Slide-On Die Station Propheteer Intl., Palatine, IL, USA; 847/359-8988; propheteerintl.com A quick-change die station complements ...

Living in Technologically Interesting Times

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November 30, 2000, ... with changes in the world and our industry is a job in itself. Simply think about how much you have had to learn on your own to remain current. The Polymers, Laminations and Coatings Division is also ...

Pouchmaking Equipment Adapts as Materials Advance

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November 30, 2000, ... operation of the machinery. Everybody wants more and more flexibility, mostly in terms of the size of the pouch." Greely agrees. "Converters want [to be able to produce] these hot trendy jobs but also ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... high-impact wrapping to set the product apart from its competitors. See's worked closely with UCB Films in choosing a gold metallized finished cellophane film for the job. UCB's metallized silver film ...

Digital Products for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ... dpi and are switchable from job to job. Available in two versions: basic, with an imaging speed of up to 8 sq ft/hr; and Speed, which co. says offers enhanced productivity of up to 12.9 ft/hr. Halftone ...

Corona Treaters Adapt to Converting Processes

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September 30, 2000, ... substrates—coated papers, plastic films—but the covered roll system is the most efficient way to handle the job, according to Seaman. Ballard says, "The basic difference between the various technologies ...

Hot Melt Symposium Covers Many Topics

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September 30, 2000, ... job information, meeting schedules, and on-line anonymous buying and selling opportunities. For his presentation entitled "Raw Material Trends for Hot Melt Adhesives in Europe," Robert W. Smith of The ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... from job to job. Handles a range of materials from 1-mil film to 18-pt board. Do-It-Yourself Program Offered Avery Dennison/Fasson Roll North America, Painesville, OH; 440/358-4936; averydennison.com ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... advancement of US business and the creation of new jobs. Web Site Targets Graphic Arts Professionals ALEXANDRIA, VA, USA—The Graphic Arts Information Network (GAIN)—an on-line portal to information, ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, ... thus enabling an operator to view a training video or reference the manual while the HMI continues to monitor and control the machine. The HMI also can permit repeatable jobs, whereby a task is created, ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... presses." That same year Jacobsen and his father formed WCG as a side, noncompeting business (with Banta) to accommodate customers with unique or unusual printing jobs/requests. "There was a lot of project ...

Pointing finger places blame but won't solve the proble

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November 30, 1996, ... construction know the details of the job initially, there should be no opportunity for later problems. Every participant will have the opportunity beforehand to learn the compatibility of his or her product ...

Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.

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November 30, 1996, ... paper used to do a major run, reports Callahan. Callahan says the gun's extensive range makes his job easier and has made him the winner of a few bets to boot. "My gun is accurate within 75 feet, and ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... are comprehensive. Most customers furnish film, though more and more jobs are coming in as electronic files. Sean Sweeny, prepress manager at Walle's Harahan plant, explains that the prepress departments ...

Web-inspection system supports label operation

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July 31, 1996, ... with many jobs delivered much sooner. "We take delivery time very seriously. We're there to please the customer." Those customers come from a variety of market niches, from food and beverages to hardware ...

Pressure-sensitive line utilizes all-vector drive system

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June 30, 1996, ... we run the same job, instead of going through and resetting 50 parameters for drying, speeds, tensions, and so on, we can press one button to download our saved parameters from the database into the PLC, ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... percentage of short-run production-jobs that sometimes required only 30 to 60 minutes to print. The move toward smaller order sizes and shrinking production time frames began to put pressure on the ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

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May 31, 1996, ... and provides an accurate match of CMYK process and spot colors, up to 12 total colors per job. The Cyrel Digital Proof has advanced color management software that allows the proof to be custom-calibrated ...