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Kodak Breaks Ground for Expansion of Plate Manufacturing Facility

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March 02, 2008, Kodak broke ground on Friday, February 29 on an expansion of the plate production facility in Columbus, Georgia. Adding 16,000 square feet to the existing facility COLUMBUS, GA, Mar. 3— In response to ...

Kodak Plate Now Available in the U.S. and Canada

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October 25, 2006, Kodak Thermal Direct non-process printing plate now is commercially available in the United States and Canada. PRESS RELEASE ROCHESTER, NY—Kodak Thermal Direct non-process printing plate now is commercially ...

Kodak To Close Plate-Making Facility

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October 13, 2005, Eastman Kodak Co. will close its Middleway, WV, printing plate manufacturing plant by the end of the first quarter of 2006. The plant was part of Kodak's acquisition of Creo Inc. earlier this year PRESS ...

POP Goes the Platemaker

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September 29, 2005, ... 1966 as a platemaking trade shop for corrugated converters, VT Graphics seized the digital opportunity in 2004 with the purchase of a Scitex Vision CORjet press, an Esko-Graphics Kongsberg DCM digital ...

Creo Expands Plate Facility

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November 30, 2004, BURNABY, BC, CANADA Creo reports it will expand the capacity of its West Virginia printing plate manufacturing facility with an additional lithographic BURNABY, BC, CANADA — Creo reports it will expand ...

Kodak Polychrome Graphics to Demo Flexo Plates at Drupa

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April 25, 2004, Kodak Polychrome Graphics reports it will demo its new line of Flexcel printing plates for the flexographic printing industry at Drupa (6 - 19 May, 2004). PRESS RELEASE NORWALK, CT, USA—Kodak Polychrome ...

Agfa's Sublima Screening Technology Garners Award from Flexo Prepress Platemakers Assn

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April 22, 2004, ... screening technology for flexographic platemaking has been honored with the “2004 Technological Innovator of the Year" award from the seventh annual Flexographic Prepress Platemakers Association (FPPA) ...

OMET to Show Converting Equipment for Folding Carton Packaging and Napkin Production at Drupa

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February 16, 2004, ... 33 inches—with the greatest precision. In fact," states OMET, "it was the first machine completely electronically operated, without gears on the printing plate cylinder (gearless & shaftless system technology); ...

Agfa Opens New Wuxi, China, Plate Manufacturing Facility

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November 02, 2003, ... launch of a new manufacturing facility in Wuxi New Development Zone, China. According to Agfa, the "state-of-the-art" plant will produce Agfa's portfolio of digital and analog plates to meet Asia's increasing ...

FFTA FIRST Conference Revised Format Includes Digital Platemaking

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October 27, 2003, ... principles found in the previous editions, while paying particular attention to color management, process inks, enhancement of digital platemaking, and expanded gamut ink sets. Contact the FFTA by calling ...

Creo Acquires Litho Plate Operation, Launches Positive Thermal Plate Line

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September 15, 2003, Creo reports it will manufacture, sell, and support its own lithographic thermal printing plates. Late last week, the company's board of directors voted to "yes" to Creo's plan to acquire First Graphics Ltd., ...

Package Printer Steps Up Production 50% with Creo's Brisque Pac

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August 12, 2002, ... process and drives offset or flexographic computer-to-plate (CTP) devices." VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA—Creo reports trade shops, printers, and converters around the world are embracing Brisque Pack packaging ...

FTA Seeks Digital, Flex-Pack, Ink, Plate Experts for Mexico City Meeting

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July 28, 2002, ... to Converting Technological Innovations in Ink and Ink-Metering Systems Tried and True Platemaking and Mounting Techniques Representatives from US companies now servicing Latin American-based flexographers ...

Digital Flexo Plates: From Pioneers to End-Users

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May 31, 2002, ... and most recently, computer-to-plate (CTP) for offset printing. We can be grateful to them for helping to “get the bugs out” of many of these systems before they came to us in the packaging industry. ...

Agfa Expansion Brings Digital Platemaking to North America

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August 05, 2001, Agfa is expanding its plate-manufacturing capacity in its existing Branchburg, NJ, facility. RIDGEFIELD PK, NJ, USA—Agfa is expanding its plate-manufacturing capacity in its existing Branchburg, NJ, facility. ...

Plate advances bring flexo closer to offset

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April 30, 1996, Developments in all aspects of printing plate and platemaking technology continue unabated. This article, because of space constraints, will be limited Developments in all aspects of printing plate and ...

Avery Dennison Introduces Volt Tough™ Stretch Electrical Insulation Tape

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September 04, 2024, ... Tapes offers electrical insulation tape solutions for cooling components (plates, fins, ribbons), structural components (module side plates, pack enclosure), busbar and cell connection systems, and heat ...

Adapting for Digital or Conventional Labels

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August 11, 2024, ...  For example, repeat jobs don't just mean pulling plates and printing again. You won't be competitive selling $1,000 jobs when every touch costs $25 to $50 in time against that revenue stream. Whether ...

BW Converting’s Baldwin and W+D empower corrugated manufacturers to achieve more with less at SuperCorrExpo 2024

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August 08, 2024, ... BW Converting will highlight the Baldwin FlexoCleanerBrush™ – a fully automated flexo plate-cleaning system that can be up to 126 inches (3.2 meters) wide. Enhancing print quality and improving worker ...

EFI Announces New Wide Format Pro+ Series Printers and High-performance ProGraphics+ Series Inks

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August 06, 2024, ... quality printing, new front and back media pressure rollers for handling a wider range of media, semi-continuous board feeding, an advanced, four chamber media-platen vacuum system with independent power ...