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Printing Partnerships

(Special Reports)

June 30, 2008, ... ultimate flexibility for creating security features, both visible to the naked eye and, more importantly, visible only via special security reading equipment. Leading-edge modular and platform narrow web ...

A Golden Opportunity

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2008, ...  Entry | World Class Apples-Hand Selected Taste The Variety box Category | Narrow Web Winner | FTA South Africa on behalf of Roll On Labels Entry | Nestle Hot Chocolate label Category | Mid Web Winner ...

Flint Group To Debut Innovations at Drupa 2008

(News | New Products)

June 29, 2008, ... Germany | Flint Group is presenting its latest innovations in printing plates, sleeve systems, inks and pressroom chemicals, printing blankets, and sleeves in two stands at Drupa 2008. Its Narrow Web and ...

Suppliers Combine to Present "UV Flexo for Food Packaging" Project at Drupa 200

(News | New Products)

June 22, 2008, ... for narrow web printers to enter new markets and gives flexible packaging converters an alternative to solvent-based printing, while eliminating previous constraints in UV printing, such as poor ink adhesion ...

CMM Appoints Coordinators of "Innovative Technology Centers

(News | New Products)

June 09, 2008, ... and Narrow-to-Mid-Web Technology Centers featured running equipment producing actual jobs on the show floor throughout the 2007 Show; they will be joined in 2009 by the new Folding Carton Technology Center ...

News Clips

(News Clips Archive)

May 31, 2008, XSYS Print Solutions, Plymouth, MN, a div. of Flint Group, changes its name to Flint Group Narrow Web. Bobst Group, Lausanne, Switzerland, has completed XSYS Print Solutions, Plymouth, MN, a div. of ...

TLMI Membership List

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ...  1978 3M Converter Markets Flint Group Narrow Web MPI Label Systems of Ohio Dow Corning Corp. Hazen Paper Co. 1979 Rose City Label Co. Thilmany 1980 Gallus Inc. ASL Group All Stick Label ...

Letter from the President

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... objectives moving forward. This is why TLMI remains such a prominent force in the global narrow web sector and why the association will succeed for another 75 years. I believe the following testimonial ...

A Look at the North American Label Market Today

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ...  Label converters are finding new market niches in printing other types of “labels” — unsupported films for sachets and pouches, sleeves, tags, and tickets, etc. — on their combination narrow web presses. ...

Flexo4all Partners to Exhibit at Drupa 2008

(News | New Products)

May 12, 2008, ... and converters are faced with additional economical challenges. This new trend is finding flexo more adaptable, particularly when coupled with mid and narrow-web presses, Flexo4all Partners reports.    “At ...

A Recipe for Scratching

(Web Handling)

April 30, 2008, ... Use air or fluid to fully lubricate the web/roller interface. For narrow and stiff webs, use an undercut or dumbbell-shaped roller that makes contact only at the web edges. Use a tenter or edge nips to ...

Drupa New Product Digest

(Magazine)

April 30, 2008, ... and services include sheet-fed simulators with new color control tools; packaging gravure simulators; flexo simulators for wide web, narrow web, and corrugated; and heatset web press training simulators. ...

Quality Time

(Gravure)

March 31, 2008, ... that narrow web is not always the solution, and decreasing tooling costs and turnaround time. Bud Gray of Acucote, in discussing the outlook for pressure-sensitive labels, cautioned printers to concentrate ...

Martin Automatic Gives Labelexpo Asia a Thumbs Up

(News | New Products)

March 31, 2008, ... saw live demonstrations of the latest version of Martin’s STS automatic butt splicer and STR automatic turret rewind for narrow webs. The STS and STR feature advanced Martin Automatic roll changing technology ...

TOP 10 EClips PFFC's electronics clipping service for converter

(New Products)

February 29, 2008, ... Trendsetter NX narrow or mid imager, laminator, flexographic plates, and the Prinergy workflow system for packaging. The thermal imaging layer is imaged using Squarespot technology said to produce dots ...

One Step Ahead

(Label/Tape)

February 29, 2008, Consumer brands and products are launched on an almost daily basis. It's a vivid demonstration of the constant, exponential growth in the label and narrow Consumer brands and products are launched on an ...

The Market Matures

(Label/Tape)

February 29, 2008, ... process and on narrow web combination-process presses is increasing. This opens new opportunities for label converters to widen their product offerings. Threats and Opportunities Raw material and energy ...

How To Find Information Fast

(Editorial)

January 31, 2008, ... marketplace at other converting operations with which you may be able to identify. What works for one business may have shared application at your own workplace. Our monthly “Narrow Web & Label Reporter” ...

FTA Calls for Excellence in Flexography Submissions

(Archive)

January 06, 2008, ... providers, suppliers, graphic designers and students can submit entries in the following categories: wide web, mid web, narrow web, folding cartons, napkins, combined corrugated, preprinted linerboard, ...

Differential Winding Limits: Part II

(Magazine)

November 30, 2007, ... on the same shaft. The second, less obvious limitation of core-spacer stacks is their sensitivity to core width variations, especially at narrow slit widths. If core width is slightly off, the stacking ...