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Flexo Printing to Outpace GNP in 2002, Says FTA

(News | New Products)

December 09, 2001, ... migration of print jobs from offset, letterpress, and screen over to flexo. Whether it is stand-up pouches, in-mold labeling, thinner flute/higher quality corrugated board or fiber substitutes for the ...

Corrugated Containers Serve & Sell

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November 30, 2001, ... a single-unit gift box for Schwarz Worldwide's Cuervo line. This entry won first place in the Direct Print on Combined Board Using Offset Printing Processes category. The outer surface of the box was ...

Automated Sortation System Boosts Customer Satisfaction

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November 30, 2001, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. Lithographics, a sheet-fed offset label supplier producing $50 million worth of labels annually for the food and beverage Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. Lithographics, a sheet-fed ...

Materials

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November 29, 2001, ... with standard coating equipment available to the packaging converter. Coatings can be applied by direct or offset gravure to a variety of substrates including paper, foil, nylon, as well as corona treated ...

One-Dimensional Converter Expands Its Reach

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October 31, 2001, ... today, we offer more types of labels. If you want in-mold, pressure-sensitive, glue-applied, heat shrink, we're in a position to supply customers with any of those. If you want them printed offset, flexo, ...

Harmonic System Gets Tension Under Control

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October 31, 2001, ... offset-only facility for its first five years.) Much of Capital Printing's label work traditionally has been in the pharmaceutical and packaging insert markets, with run lengths averaging between 5,000 ...

Reporter Clips

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October 31, 2001, ... coordinator. Indigo N.V., Woburn, MA, has officially opened its newest US demo center in Los Angeles, CA. The facility offers ongoing demonstrations of the co.'s digital offset color presses, along with ...

Image This! Among the Acronyms, Flexo Finds Its Fit

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October 30, 2001, ... acronyms are growing. For the proper fit, the methodology continuously tries on sleeves and much more. Flexography is catching up (some say now is equal) to gravure and offset/litho quality. Increasingly, ...

CreoScitex Roadshow Provides Package Printers Inspiration

(News | New Products)

October 15, 2001, ... reports attendees will learn about new developments in offset and flexo computer-to-plate (CTP), stochastic screening, and collaborative remote proofing. "We will show packaging professionals that there' ...

Materials

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September 30, 2001, ... cold foil applications and laminations and can be used in combination UV screen, UV flexo, UV offset, and almost all variable information printing, co. reports. Metallized Papers Offer High Performance ...

TLMI Awards: Hardworking Labels & Tags Reap Their Reward

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September 30, 2001, ... or jamming. The label was printed on a combination ten-color press using gravure, offset, and flexo in seven colors plus coating and adhesive at a running speed of 450 fpm. It was sheeted in-line, guillotine-cut, ...

VOC-Compliant Inks: What State Are They In?

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September 30, 2001, ... Assn. attempted to answer that question recently with Project Fog (flexo, offset, gravure). The FFTA presented the project at its Annual Forum, held in Nashville, TN, May 6-9. “Project FOG” used six ...

Electron Beam Curing in Flexible Packaging

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August 31, 2001, ... and coatings in the packaging market began with the decision by Tetra Pak to install EB curing units on web offset presses globally. These units cured inks and coatings used to decorate and protect various ...

Delivering Digital: CTP Carries Flexo Printing to Competitive Quality

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August 31, 2001, ... industry's increasing ability to compete with gravure and offset. And platemaking suppliers certainly aren't the only ones touting flexo's improved quality status: HDF™ (High Definition Flexo) is a supplier ...

So You've Seen a Ghost! Who You Gonna Call

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July 31, 2001, ... on the roller. This causes one roller to have a ghost image that is created due to differences in ink film thickness. Lithographic and offset printing use higher viscosity inks and can be prone to ghosting. ...

Slitter Savvy: Visual Roll Defects & Remedies

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July 31, 2001, ...  Keep cross-caliper variation to a minimum. Oscillate before slitting. Provide for proper handling and transporting of rolls. Offsets and Interweaving: Offsets are defined as an abrupt change in the ...

Polymers/Laminations/Adhesives/Coatings/Extrusions

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July 31, 2001, ... offsetting for minimum gap variation. Other sources of variation include deflection of the backing roll in the nip between the applicator roll and the web and roll diameter variation due to temperature ...

Russian Label Show Exhibits Lively Growth

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June 30, 2001, ... Russia, many labels are still hand-applied — and sheet-fed offset onto self-adhesives is widely in evidence, as is wet-glue labeling for the many brands of vodka that comprise Russia's major product, both ...

When It Comes to Flexo Quality the Sky's the Limi

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June 30, 2001, ... 6-9, was celebrating an odyssey of its own — that of flexo's evolution from an upstart, lower-end method of printing to a high quality process that can hold its own against offset and gravure, and keeps ...

GAA AWARDS: Gravure Is Golden for GAA Award Winners

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June 30, 2001, ... Packaging Paperboard Westvaco Corp. and Southern Graphics Systems, both of Richmond, VA, teamed up on the Wrigley's Eclipse package, previously printed offset, to bring home a winner in the Packaging Paperboard ...