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Sun Chemical Digitizes Color Communication with GMG ColorCard

(News | New Products)

September 28, 2021, ... enables the digital production of color cards based on the ink kitchen’s spectral measurement values. Integrating GMG ColorCard, Sun Chemical can now help its customers move to a more digitized workflow. ...

Eaglewood Technologies Announces InfoFlex at Fall Conference

(Upcoming Conference News)

September 26, 2021, ... sustainability initiatives as well as track, measure, clean and control anilox inventory. Stop to see the demonstration video of the recently introduced Sitexco Plus Systems, based on the award winning ...

Label Printer Achieves Improved Average OEE with AWP CleanPrint Flexo Plates

(News | New Products)

September 20, 2021, ... or OEE, is a measurement of the performance of a printing press. It’s a calculation – OEE = Availability x Performance x Quality – that delivers an OEE percentage. It’s a fact-based way to measure the ...

Methods for Closed Loop Coating Thickness Control

(News | New Products)

August 19, 2021, There are many methods currently available for online measurement of coating thickness.  By Bob Pasquale, New Era's President There are many methods currently available for online measurement of coating ...

Roundtable Q&A: Static Control

(Static Elimination)

August 08, 2021, ... cannot be installed close to the surface to be neutralized. What makes the NEOS special and is a major shift in static control capability, is that it continuously measures the degree of static charge on ...

Best Practices: Corona Treating Pretreated Films Prior to Converting

(Flexpack)

August 01, 2021, ... organic and inorganic contaminants from the film’s surface layer while oxidizing the surface and activating it for increased wettability and higher surface energy. Surface energy is commonly measured ...

Papresa Implement Opt-Studio to Maximize Performance for Future Infrastructure Development Projects

(News | New Products)

August 01, 2021, ... USP is its ability to maintain a flexible production strategy to meet customer delivery dates. This meant that the solution needed to be able to measure production and switch over costs while ensuring ...

Tata Steel Packaging and Sensory Analytics Announce Partnership for Quality Excellence

(News | New Products)

July 07, 2021, Tata Steel’s Protact® lamination plant in IJmuiden, Netherlands and Sensory Analytics, the U.S. supplier of patented SpecMetrix® coating and film thickness measurement systems Tata Steel’s Protact® ...

Properly Select a Web Guide for Your Operation

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

June 30, 2021, ... measurements of accuracy, precision, linearity and resolution, manufacturers are trying to present the benefits of their products based on the device’s performance profile. However, sometimes what appears ...

Water-Based Flexographic Printing Steps Up to the Sustainability Challenge

(News | New Products)

June 30, 2021, ... flexographic printing can be reduced by about 65 percent compared to gravure. We measured GHG emissions from the gravure life cycle at 668 kilograms, whereas emissions from water-based flexography were ...

INFOFLEX Is Coming to FTA’s Fall Conference 2021

(News | New Products)

June 23, 2021, ... LLC, GMG Color, Heat Technologies Inc, HYBRID Software, INOMETA GmbH, Interflex Laser Engravers, Koenig & Bauer, MeasureColor/Colorware USA Inc, Miraclon Home of Kodak Flexcel Solutions, Nilpeter, OEC ...

Siegwerk Unveils Next Generation of Sustainable Water-Based Inks for Paper and Board Applications

(News | New Products)

June 23, 2021, ... in line with a circular economy.” The new water-based ink and coating solutions are reportedly formulated with a high Bio Renewable Content (BRC) measured according to the ASTM 6866 method. Products ...

Diagnose Static Problems With A Handheld Static Meter

(Static-Beat)

June 14, 2021, ...  Handheld static meters are our most important instruments for diagnosing and solving static problems. First, let’s take a look at what handheld static meters measure. Then, we’ll use our meter to diagnose ...

LaserSpeed Pro Enables Converters to Accurately, Reliably Control Web Tension and Realize Value

(News | New Products)

May 09, 2021, ... without making contact. Placing a LaserSpeed Pro encoder at each critical measurement point along the line enables converters to accurately measure the web speed and determine the amount of tension of ...

The Cleanflex Easy Gun: Cleaning Made Easy

(News | New Products)

April 22, 2021, ... is initiated only when the trigger is active and enough air pressure has been measured by an internal sensor. This provides added safety, low energy usage and extends the ionization emitter life. The ...

X-Rite Announces New Inline Color Management System for the Paper Industry

(News | New Products)

April 22, 2021, ... manufacturing. The ColorXRA 45 is a non-contact inline spectrophotometer with avspectral resolution of 1 nanometer. The instrument can measure color at multiple points in the paper manufacturing process ...

Increase Productivity with Slitter Rewinder Automation

(News | New Products)

April 12, 2021, ... the slitter controls with auto-calibration and auto knife position. Digital knife positioning – Knife positions are saved in a file recipe database and a digital tape measure displays the required knife ...

In the Spotlight: IMS Technologies Q&A

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

March 29, 2021, ... cells or dancer rollers, the tension is controlled by an open-loop platform based on sophisticated algorithms which estimates the actual tension based on measured values such as motor current absorption, ...

Advanced Hazing Detection Reliably Detects Color Hazing on Transparent Films

(News | New Products)

March 25, 2021, ... runs are avoided, as the system alarms the operator of defects, enabling an immediate cause analysis and the implementation of countermeasures. The QuickProof function of the ISRA PrintSTAR system provides ...

GEW joins virtual drupa: April 20-23

(Upcoming Conference News)

March 24, 2021, ... for innovation, benefiting exhibitors and visitors in equal measure. Through direct contact, people can experience and compare technology trends and innovations, and discover new synergies. The virtual ...