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One-Dimensional Converter Expands Its Reach

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October 31, 2001, ...  spill-age that tend to attack the label. An in-mold label offers excellent adhesion, and with the barrier properties we can build into the overprint varnishes, we have excellent product resistance. It ...

VOC-Compliant Inks: What State Are They In?

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September 30, 2001, ... flexo, gravure, screen, and/or digital printing stations. UV technology is well suited as an add-on station to narrow web combination presses. This can be used to apply an overprint or to print digital ...

Converting Industry News

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January 31, 2001, ... that technology was that little pieces of foil popped off the paper. We wanted a flexible holographic material that could be overprinted effectively, laminated with a high-barrier foil, have excellent ...

Materials

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November 30, 2000, ... Coatings & Inks, Ambler, PA; 800/445-2207 Organo-modified polysiloxane copolymer defoamers are designed to meet the specific needs of water-borne printing inks and overprint varnishes. Defoamers are said ...

What's New in Narrow We

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September 30, 2000, ... of applications, including self-adhesive labels, tickets, tags, and boards. Can be used in combination with other ink technologies. Also can be overprinted with thermal transfer ribbons (depending on type) ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

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August 31, 1996, ... The computer controls the process from this point on. When the entire roll is metallized, the machine stops automatically. Vacuum is released, the roll is removed, and then it has to be lacquer-overprinted ...

A look at the status of UV/EB curing

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June 30, 1996, ... continue to grow. Graphic Arts Clear overprint coatings for paper and paperboard comprise the largest market for UV- and EB-curable products. As a group, materials used in graphic arts and converting ...

In-mold labels: film is today's hot development

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June 30, 1996, ... better appearance. The first in-mold labels consisted of two-side, clay-coated paper. One side had a heat-seal adhesive, and the other side had an inked surface with an overprint coating to provide ...

Package, vehicle sticker earn holographic honors

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February 28, 1995, ... the Piper Heidseck package hologram, the judges were impressed by the simplicity yet effectiveness of using one of Applied Holographics standard wide-web films as a substrate to overprint a bubbly four-color ...