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- It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film
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- May 31, 2000, When I was in college, one of my classmates who lived in my dorm tried heating a pot pie on a plastic plate in the oven. Needless to say, the oven and When I was in college, one of my classmates who lived ...
- Converter Can't Seem to Stay Out of Busines
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- April 30, 2000, ... have measured our growth and tried not to bite off more than we could chew in any one area," stresses Curran. "For example, when we started the prepress department, we did plates first, then added the ...
- Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray
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- April 30, 2000, ... seven layers of copper. The top layer is engraved and then plated with chrome. To reuse the cylinders, the top layer simply is stripped, then the next layer is engraved and replated." Bell also points ...
- Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application
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- April 30, 2000, ... eliminate the causes of inconsistency, and minimize the possibility of web breaks. Air-Actuated Units Pneumatic or air-actuated brakes use air pressure to force stationary plates against rotating discs ...
- Shorter Turnaround Time Drives Move to CTP
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- January 31, 2000, ... die-cut, and glue all products within a very short lead time in order to fulfill the just-in-time inventory requirements of its customers. A Heidelberg/Creo computer-to-plate (CTP) system is now part of ...
- Converters See Hurdles Ahead in Digital Printing
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- January 31, 2000, ... industry met in Chicago, IL, to discuss the emergence of digital prepress, computer-to-plate (CTP), digital proofing, and other related technologies. The following report highlights key perceptions ...
- Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader
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- December 31, 1999, ... engraving, flexo plate preparation, and color separation. Cartons & Labels & Service Dixie Toga's carton and label division is located near the international Sao Paulo airport at the side of President ...
- Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.
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- November 30, 1996, ... variety of prepress, printing/laminating, bagmaking, and finishing equipment. Its prepress operation uses a Bieffebi rubber platemaking system; the pressroom floor houses bagmaking machines from Battenfeld ...
- EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.
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- October 31, 1996, ... At each demonstration facility, the ink will be run on each substrate for two hours. Each ink will be printed on a total of three different films (see side bar). Plates will be provided through the Project, ...
- New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP
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- August 31, 1996, ... and were capped with conventional tinplate crowns. Now bets are that by 1997, at least one major US beer bottler will have a PEN bottle onstream. Even more exotic is the use of liquid crystal polymers ...
- On-line gauging brings big benefits to coating operation
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- July 31, 1996, ... in the 21st century and how we can reach the next plateau," says Lou Falletta. This strategy includes branching out into new markets and servicing existing markets with improved product quality. "We have ...
- A look at the status of UV/EB curing
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- June 30, 1996, ... integrated circuits using positive or negative photo-resists to transfer circuit patterns, which are later etched and plated, forming very thin, small, compact circuits in a stepped manner. The photo-resist ...
- FTA winners show off strides in Flexo
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- June 30, 1996, ... Entries were judged on two general standards: degree of difficulty (printability/ink compatibility, registration tolerances, plate multiformity, fineness of print/screen, tonal range, converting complexity, ...
- A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.
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- May 31, 1996, ... lightweight plate and anilox cylinders that can be exchanged in less than one minute per roll. The press runs at 800 fpm and has a 10- to 24-in. repeat length. Rotating on precision bearings, the cylinders ...
- Advances in prepress are making heads spin.
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- May 31, 1996, ... As noted by Bethea, the dramatic changes that have taken place encompass virtually every aspect of the prepress area. From initial design and film output to platemaking and proofing, suppliers are continually ...
- 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 ...
- Innovation is a winner in FPA competition
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- March 31, 1996, ... provide product integrity. American National Can produces a registered, printed lamination (flexo-printed in eight colors with photopolymer printing plates produced by the American National Can Graphics ...
- New hot stamper does more for short runs
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- February 29, 1996, ... process, according to Stearns, is making the plate change. "We gang our dies - usually 24 sets of plates at a time - so that it's not that costly. The most time-consuming part is the ten minutes per job ...
- Business and education join forces, and everybody wins
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- February 29, 1996, ... are taught design, image creation, image processing, assembly, plate production, printing, and finishing. Every student who graduates from the program will have done at least 25 press runs, including work ...
- Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination
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- January 31, 1996, ... platemaking, which serves mounting, ink matching, etc. In addition, the company formed a special planning group composed of elite members from each department to coordinate and oversee their combined ...