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Signs Say Economy Slowing Down, Recession Unlikely

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December 31, 2000, ... October, computers were up about 43 percent. Electronic components, including semiconductors and printed circuit boards, were up almost 85 percent, September to September. Communications equipment, through ...

Looking for Good Technical Talent? So Is Everyone Else

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November 30, 2000, ... but certainly it is applicable to the current technical job market. Extremely low unemployment rates, along with a lack of skilled workers educated in printing or ink technology, are making life difficult ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... it on the retail shelf. The canister is formed from web-fed bottom stock and preprinted sidewall blanks on a PMC-1500NR machine from Paper Machinery Corp. (PMC). The sidewall blanks are die-cut from ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 31, 2000, ... the conference program, a huge jump from the 136 attending in 1998. Combination Printing Press Has New Print Stations Ko-Pack International, Williston, VT; 802/872-0329; ko-pack.com The in-line 400-FL ...

Roll Cleaning Systems: Taking Advantage of Technology

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October 31, 2000, ... laminating, printing, coating, even chill rolls—and they provide thorough cleaning while the machine is in production. Yet the precision of "on-line" roll cleaning is being pushed even further by roll cleaning ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... trade associations also are taking steps to confront the labor problem. The Printing Industries of America (PIA) reports, "Many printers are addressing the labor challenge by participating in the time-tested ...

A Q&A on Remanufactured Equipment: Is It for You?

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September 30, 2000, Today's consumers pay as much attention to the package as they do to what's in it. So brand managers and print buyers demand higher quality graphics, Today's consumers pay as much attention to the package ...

How to Make Anilox Roll Improvements Work for You

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August 31, 2000, There are some exciting new developments in anilox roll technology, but they won't bring the results you want until you fine-tune your print process by There are some exciting new developments in anilox ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... produce using solvents now can be completed in less than 1 hr, according to co. Plates are compatible with standard solvent- and water-based flexo printing inks. Anilox Roll Cleaner Includes Reclaim ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... products, and services for the graphic arts industry—has been developed by Printing Industries of America and the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation. The address is gain.net. Association members will have ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... film features a polyester reinforced scrim and is said to be very strong. Part of the Trans-Banner Reinforced Vinyl product line, Yukon is a minimal shrink film, which allows for tight printing registration, ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

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August 30, 2000, ... labels, winning dozens of printing awards and counting the likes of The Disney Co., Warner Brothers, Reebok, and Sears among satisfied customers. "The name still fits," says company president Eric Magel. ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

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June 30, 2000, ... paper products typically are wrapped not in paper but in process-printed PE packaging that attracts greater consumer attention. Because this was the company's first flexible packaging press, Saugerties' ...

Box Plant Rises from the Ashes to New Heights

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May 31, 2000, ...  Bobst 102-E and 142-E cutter/creasers was in place less then six weeks after the fire, followed a month later by the second. When the first of two MAN Roland Model 600 and 900 six-color printer/ coater ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... but it also includes a cut-size sheeting operation and does some specialty coating and one-color printing with a Black Clawson flexographic printer/coater. Blue Ridge also has two sheeters at Waynesville. ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... has been around for 40 years, it had never printed prior to last year, so it definitely hit the ground running on the printing front line. And with the installation of its new Toshiba eight-color rotogravure ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, ... trigger specific actions such as turning off the machine or process. Consider a rewind or printing operation that uses large rolls of source material. Two levels of alarms can be used to indicate low ...

Folder/Gluer Broadens Markets for Contract Converter

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March 30, 2000, ... and more complex cartons and POP displays. Just six years after its founding, Dyno Press went from literally producing checks to printing university books and publications, before finally emerging as ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... materials, which are distributed in the general display, large-format digital print, photolab, picture framing, and sign markets; plus a host of industrial products, including double-sided tapes, protection ...

Shorter Turnaround Time Drives Move to CTP

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January 31, 2000, ... for customers across the US. Approximately 90% of its business comes from the pharmaceutical, software, food, specialty products, and game industries. From a product management standpoint, SVH must print, ...