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Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... is recorded on an optical plate so the rotogravure cylinder can be prepared. (Printing is about 60% rotogravure and 40% flexographic.) Anton says that this process enables 100% consistency between the ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... photoelectric counting systems for exact label counts. Dry Flexo Plates Speed Up Process DuPont Cyrel, Wilmington, DE; 302/999-2065; dupont.com/cyrel Cyrel FAST dry flexo platemaking system reportedly ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... work-related back injuries, co. reports. Platen Printer Outputs Top Quality Graphics Adolph Gottscho Inc., Union, NJ; 908/688-2400 Flexographic platen printer 800 Series is said to be ideal for lines ...

Anilox Rolls Are Key When Printing Corrugated Board

(Print)

July 31, 2000, ... printing plates from Miller Graphics, water-based flexo inks from Manders Premier, and Ultracell anilox rolls from Apex." The folding boxes produced in Eindhoven are mostly white, brown, or gray, yet ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... plates. Decker reports that the performance features of the Bobst Schiavi press were designed to offer existing customers the same level of quality and service in its flexible packaging that they have ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... engraving machines (for engraving of gravure plates) debut in US market. 1970s Advent of extrusion lamination; results in a thicker laminate with smoother appearance; more resistant to handling ...

Drupa 2000A Big Success Any Way You Count It

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... developments. Some of the digitally oriented Drupa introductions PFFC encountered during our two-week visit included CreoScitex's Trendsetter Packaging Series—a series of platesetter models designed ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ...  Millennium," but they are certainly technologies that bear watching. Peerless Machine: 1926 Technology with Impact A paper plate and tray forming machine introduced in 1926 was recognized as a "technolog ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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.

(Magazine)

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.

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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 ...