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FFTA Campaigns for Flexo

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May 31, 2002, With our nation's capitol as a backdrop, the Foundation of the Flexographic Technical Assn. (FFTA) presented a patriotic theme at its 44th annual forum With our nation's capitol as a backdrop, the Foundation ...

RadTech 2002 Yields High Performance

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May 05, 2002, ... litho; 32% screen; 21% flexo, in which major application area is in tag and label industry); electronics and photopolymers (15,000 tons of UV/EB formulated products; figure includes half of photopolymer ...

Products

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March 31, 2002, ...  Encore™ uncapped photopolymer plates are designed for high quality printing on flexible packaging, folding cartons, preprint linerboard, multiwall bags, and labels. Plates are compatible with UV, alcohol, ...

Products

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February 28, 2002, ...  Co. offering steel-backed photopolymer printing plate lifters free as long as they last. Said to help user lift plates from magnetic cylinders. Web Service Optimizes Roll Stock Greycon, Birmingham, ...

Image This! Among the Acronyms, Flexo Finds Its Fit

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October 30, 2001, ...  • Continuous photopolymer printing sleeves are (CPPS) expensive to produce • Digital seamless sleeves: coated with a laser-sensitive mask • Least sophisticated technology: “plate-on-sleeve”; ...

VOC-Compliant Inks: What State Are They In?

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September 30, 2001, ... quality competitive are advances in press design, anilox rolls, ink metering, printing inks, and photopolymer plates. Perhaps for the first time, the case for flexographic quality as an equal to lithography ...

DIGITAL SOLUTIONS NEWS

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April 30, 2001, ... a Cyrel™ Digital Imager (CDI) Spark to Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC. CDI Spark is a digital flexo device for imaging photopolymer plates from a mfr.'s digital format or PostScript 3 format. According to Barco, ...

Products at CMM

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March 31, 2001, ... processor, will expose, wash, dry, and detack sleeve-mounted digital plates automatically. It can process up to 11 photopolymer sleeves simultaneously. The device has full compatibility with all commercial ...

Converting Industry News

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March 30, 2001, News from: Farwest Graphic Technologies, FFTA, Kraton Polymers, Label Art, MagneTek, Pactiv, PCMC, RadTech, Rexam, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Technotrans, Tyco Intl., Webtron/ZigZag, W/S Packaging Group, ...

Converting Industry News

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December 31, 2000, ...  DuPont Raises Price of Cyrel Plates WILMINGTON, DE, USA—Effective December 1, DuPont Cyrel Packaging Graphics Products has increased the price of its Cyrel photopolymer plates in North America between ...

Products

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November 30, 2000, ... double-sided cloth stereo mounting tape, has a creped silicon paper liner and a high-performance adhesive made of natural rubber. It is suitable for mounting rubber and photopolymer plates onto cylinders. ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ... to the process." In other news from MacDermid, the company has unified the branding strategy for all its photopolymer printing plate products. Flex-Light products will include all sheet, liquid, water ...

Digital News for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ...  Schawk Brings CTP Flexo Capabilities to Mexico DES PLAINES, IL, USA—Schawk Inc. has completed a digital imaging prepress facility in Queretaro, Mexico. From production art and conventional photopolymer ...

Digital Products for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ...  Cyrel Digital Image (CDI) Spark is the latest member of co.'s CDI flexo platesetter family. CDI Spark images DuPont Cyrel and other brands of digital photopolymer plates in formats to 25 in. x 30 in. External ...

Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing

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August 31, 2000, ... the flexo landscape significantly in regard to quality. Laser-engraved photopolymer plates combined with chamber doctor blades and ceramic anilox rolls have been major factors in the move toward flexo. ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ... on a Power Macintosh with a calibrated Barco monitor. A new line produces photopolymer printing plates for the flexo operation, and rotogravure cylinders are manufactured under stringent ecological ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

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November 30, 1996, ...  mid-size converters might use an outside vendor for artwork preparation and plates," Faletti says. "However, we've invested in a top-of-the-line AGFA imagesetter for our conventional rubber and photopolyme ...

FTA winners show off strides in Flexo

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June 30, 1996, ... - is pushing ahead. Tonal range capability is expanding; high-solids inks are improving densities; direct-to-plate technology is becoming a reality for photopolymer - all reflect flexo's growth into a measurable, ...

Plate advances bring flexo closer to offset

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April 30, 1996, ... typically, what printers require to get higher levels of reproduction is a tape featuring a high dynamic resiliency. "The photopolymers used to make flexographic printing plates today result in harder ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... designer and utilizes both photopolymer and rubber plates. A staff of ink specialists from Sun Chemical Corp. is on hand at all times to blend as many as eight different solvent-based ink colors to match ...