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Komori Rolls Out Offset Innovation with Style

(News | New Products)

July 17, 2002, ... of increased speed, productivity, versatility, excellent litho quality, and ultimately, increased profitability, for both the package and commercial printing markets. The primary speaker at the event ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 30, 2002, ... developed graphics for the package, working with Sonoco on the package printing process. Rotogravure was the process of choice. Sonoco printed the packaging in its Mississauga facility with cylinders supplied ...

CIP4 Tech Groups to Further JDF

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June 30, 2002, ...  A new working group, headed by Koen van de Poel of Agfa, "Origination and Prepress," provides a forum for resolving issues arising in all the stages of a print workflow before the jobs reach the press. ...

Amidst Staffing Shortages, Working Hard Is the Norm

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May 31, 2002, ... activity slowed in April but is still showing signs of growth.” Andrew Paparozzi, National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) VP and chief economist, expects “print sales to grow as much as 5% ...

Products: Edited by Deborah Donberg

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... Laboratories Inc., Middleboro, MA; 508/946/6200; brookfieldengineering.com The AST-100 in-line process viscometer offers advanced sensor technology for the printing and graphics market. Said to have simple, ...

Presses Have Converter in Fine Form

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May 31, 2002, ... industry, Sam O'Connor has seen that marketplace undergo dramatic changes — and not necessarily for the better. The growth of thermal transfer and other types of computer-generated printing, for example, ...

FFTA Campaigns for Flexo

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May 31, 2002, ... including David Bankson, Label Technology; Bryan Emmerson, Poly Cello; Raymond A. Gray, Cypress Multigraphics; and Nancy Wallwork, Williamson Printing Materials. Hocking and Robert Lauzon, Glopak, were ...

BST Pro Mark Studies Register Control Benefits for CI Flexo

(News | New Products)

May 27, 2002, Bst Pro Mark reported the results of its year-long study on "setting register on flexo CI presses" recently, which, according to the co., shows "CI register control technology substantially reduces flexo ...

Thriving on Gravure & Location

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April 30, 2002, ... Established as a greenfield facility in 1999, Mipa was preceded by Met-Lux in 1997. Specializing in rotogravure technology, Mipa controls the entire gravure printing process internally. Haskins explains, ...

Flint Ink UV: "Ideal" for Packagin

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April 09, 2002, ... packaging solutions. "These new ink systems provide printers and converters with an effective tool to grow retail packaging business," says Steve D'Angelo, Flint Ink's director of marketing, North American ...

Converters Look for Safe Harbor Amid Choppy Waters

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March 31, 2002, ... sounds glum, opportunities may offer a safe harbor ultimately. First out of the news floodgate was an announcement late in January quoting National Assn. for Printing Leadership (NAPL) VP and chief ...

A Day in the Lives of Some Very Smart Packages

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March 31, 2002, ... The package of chocolate candies was certain that it would achieve membership. It was so smart, it could identify the diabetic mother in the household from her fingerprints whenever she touched that package. ...

Agfa Ships Apogee 3, Renews Enfocus Contract

(News | New Products)

March 24, 2002, ... complete, powerful standard that promises to expand automation in the entire process of creating printed materials—from estimating jobs through printing and finishing. Thanks to Agfa's leadership role in ...

Diverse Products Meet Many High-End Needs

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February 28, 2002, ... and film types for applications requiring decorative, conductive, reflective, abrasion-resistant, adhesive releasing, antistatic, print-receptive, solar control, or other specialized properties. “We ...

Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2002, ... & Hoelscher's Astraflex, which it reports is the first ten-color press to be placed in Canada. Pliant's decision to add W&H's ten-color printing capability is in-line with the strategy of ensuring its ...

Helping Bring Home the Bacon

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... commercial, industrial, and consumer products and documents; and “Meals in Minutes” dual-ovenable lidding films that can be custom printed in up to six colors in runs from 10,000 to 100 million or more. ...

Converting Industry News

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January 31, 2002, ... Pentaplast, MeadWestvaco, Michigan State University School of Packaging, National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL), Omet, Pack Expo Las Vegas, Rohm and Haas, and Valmet. Covering the Full Spectrum ...

Demand for Details and Innovation: FTA Surveys Towel and Tissue Manufacturers

(News | New Products)

January 06, 2002, A non-scientific poll of Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) members engaged in the printing of towel, tissue, and napkin products (nonwovens and disposables) found this type of plant typically employs ...

Mark Andy/Comco Flexo Feast Feeds Minds of Converting Industry

(News | New Products)

January 01, 2002, ...  for instance, that carton packaging method goes into a pouch structure, the converter doesn’t have to lose it to a flexible packager; he can keep it in-house. Or if a tag-and-label guy wants to print pressure-sensitiv ...

Anilox Roll Inspection: So Simple, So Important

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December 31, 2001, ... engraved surface of an anilox roll — cosmetic or structural in nature — will manifest itself in the printed substrate. In other words, the presence of cosmetic blemishes such as a drip mark from rinsing ...