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Inspection System Balances Print Quality with Economy

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December 31, 2000, ... it can facilitate the individual setting of tolerance parameters for certain print defects, according to Piotrowski. Color, register, print quality, streaking, and spotting can all be individually controlled. ...

Looking for Good Technical Talent? So Is Everyone Else

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November 30, 2000, ... to focus on the measurable parameters and try to optimize the results from a process perspective. The chemist likewise will measure parameters, but his or her perspective may focus on the relationship ...

Products

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November 30, 2000, ... Runs at speeds to 160 cycles/min and/or 160 fpm. Central processing unit allows digital selection of all set-up parameters. Paper Cup Machine Has Many Features ICE and Horauf Machinery Group, Avon, ...

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End

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November 30, 2000, ... unwind stand; steering assemblies and sensors; tension sensing at the windup; and multiple rolls on one mandrel. The Parameters A 1,000-lb mill roll (28-in. outer diameter (O.D.) on 6-in. core with ...

Coating Tech Center Is a Dream Come True

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October 31, 2000, ... parameters were, with graphics for each sample." The use of slot die coating technology makes the center even more unique, Forbes says, and perhaps even more valuable to customers not familiar with ...

Digital Products for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ... control of all press functions, from makeready to washup. Simple touchscreen console enables users to set parameters such as print gap, to preset tension, and to adjust ink/water balance. Standard features ...

UV Protection of Hot Melt Adhesives for Packaging Applications

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October 31, 2000, ... formulation, and (3) combine both methods. Performance requirements, cost parameters, or appearance of a label or tape dictate the selection of an adhesive backing material. The backing can use a material ...

Customer Satisfaction Begins and Ends with Quality

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September 30, 2000, ... caliper. Starch gel temperature and viscosity are checked and adjusted if needed. "Having these at the correct level allows us to set parameters and machine controls to ensure that the corrugated board ...

Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

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April 30, 2000, ... application, one of the four types should best meet the application requirements. Choosing a Brake Type Selecting the type of brake involves several factors, including application parameters, mounting ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... already established design criteria and parameters." Machinery Multitude Bonar purchased two Deacro slitter/rewinders to work in-line with the coaters. "To go along with these slitter/rewinders, we ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, ... can be continuously monitored and controlled from a single HMI screen display acting as an instant window into critical operation parameters such as line speed, build ratios, web splicing, and run time. ...

Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits

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February 29, 2000, ... Hwet, does not depend on physical fluid properties nor geometrical process parameters but solely on the ratio of volumetric flow rate/width, Q, to web speed, U, according to the equation below: (See ...

Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.

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November 30, 1996, ... is a means by which you can watch the entire process," Zborovsky continues. "We look at temperatures as 'events' of printing. They're the prime parameters that tell us what is happening amid the ink and the ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, ... recipe. Microcell also has an alarm manager to alert the operator to the status of critical parameters in the system. Quantum's research specialist R.F. Knor explains, "Real-time data logging and trending ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... (DfE) Flexography Project. Together, the partners of DfE will systematically evaluate solvent-based, water-based, and UV-cured inks. Samples of each ink technology will be run to specific parameters ...

Canadian show highlights packaging industry up north

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June 30, 1996, ... parameters for environmental packaging is not compromised by a lessening of standards in other countries." Robinson adds, "Export opportunities for the Canadian packaging industry continue to expand ...

Pressure-sensitive line utilizes all-vector drive system

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June 30, 1996, ... and easy to understand, says Sherwood. "The software includes a supervisory control package. We set up the machine, adjust all the parameters, and then upload the parameters and save them. The next time ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... art and more of a science," explains Jeff Lammers, VP of administration at Duralam. "The ability to set tight parameters, control the variables, work to achieve consistency, and approach the job in a systematic ...

Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality

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December 31, 1995, ... is measured twice every minute, so there are no steep peaks and valleys but a fine sawtooth pattern. Viscosity is continuously kept within the ink manufacturer's recommended parameters for optimum ink performance ...

Examining trends in drives and motors

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December 31, 1995, ... which occurs in many flux vector drives. Where an MRAC controller uses a model reference and estimations of parameters to force motor flux and torque to the reference state, a self-organized control scheme ...