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More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ...  Brake Features Compact Diameter Nexen Group Inc., Vadnais Hts., MN; 800/843-7445 BTB-10 tension control brake is ideal for corrugating, labeling, printing, and other web tension control applications, ...

Drupa 2000A Big Success Any Way You Count It

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June 30, 2000, ... imaging-size requirements of almost any label, flexible packaging, multiwall bag, and corrugated printer. Polaroid Graphics Imaging LLCA launched its first generation of automaticm digital halftone ...

System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

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February 29, 2000, ... media to prime labels and durable products. Smaller than the Lowell plant, the Mentor facility is only four years old. "Our lines run radiation-cured coatings," says Denise Mikin, product manager for ...

Converters See Hurdles Ahead in Digital Printing

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January 31, 2000, ... -- Marketing Director, Tapes, Labels, and Tags "On the actual converting side, for our business right now, the speeds aren't there. The converting -- as far as how to handle the label -- isn't there." ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... a tour of Labelexpo USA 96 this past September, where all of the major substrate suppliers, including Mobil, Fasson, and MACtac, displayed lines made specifically for digital systems. Fasson now offers ...

Pressure-sensitive line utilizes all-vector drive system

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June 30, 1996, ... 1995 and is now in full production, providing rollstock for label converters. The new line includes a proprietary coating head design and an Advanced Systems flotation dryer with an exceptionally long ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, Viking Label and Packaging faced production delays with ink foaming problems until DIP Co. stepped in and gave its partner a helping hand.When Viking Viking Label and Packaging faced production delays ...

Tissue converter accrues benefits of AC servo drives

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September 30, 1995, ... label brands. The seven-axis Bretting equipment purchased by Wepa includes an Indramat (Woodale, IL) digital AC servo drive and plug-in CLC (computer-logic card) multiaxis coordinated motion control ...

Building quality into the web printing process

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April 30, 1995, ... a video system on the press, on average about 18%. This applies to two- or three-color line work as well as four-color process jobs. A narrow web converter who prints prime labels installed a video-inspection ...

Computerized dispensing provides ink management

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March 31, 1995, ... the dispenser scale. The starting weight is verified, and the new colors are added. Before the can is transported to the press room, a bar-coded label is automatically printed. This label indicates ...

AIMCAL selects 3 finalists for technology award

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February 28, 1995, ... for a variety of new and existing applications. Some of these applications relate to segmented capacitor electrodes, microwave-food packaging, electronic article-surveillance labels, anticounterfeit currency ...

Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.

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February 28, 1995, ... embossing systems are the latest answer to the growing demand for holographic materials in the packaging section and in industrial-label converting, according to Alessandro Dondi, general manager of Diavy ...

Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age

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December 31, 1994, ... prepress has found its way into most segments of the converting industry. In some areas, such as flexible packaging and label converting, it's quickly becoming a way of life. Other areas, such as envelopes, ...