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Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ... (Autotype International serves Asia and India from another location in Singapore.) Autotype Intl.'s business now focuses on three areas: screen printing products, graphic films, and industrial films. ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... again. Packaging very often is the determining factor for consumers. In the fight to grab a browser's attention, end-users today know the importance of the printing, the color, and the design of a package. ...

Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects

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December 31, 1999, ... advanced scientific community. When Zalman Zohar, printing manager for Ultra Flex Packaging Corp., Brooklyn, NY, was looking for a print defect detection system, this cutting-edge technology caught his ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ...  eliminated is staggering, which is the primary reason the narrow web field is growing so rapidly. "Wide web is great for printing," says Chris Faust, marketing manager for Comco, "but on a narrow web press ...

Movin' on up - a look at relocating a business.

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November 30, 1996, ... Co., Plymouth, MN, is one of the nation's largest suppliers of printing inks, with seven divisions throughout the country. New operations are established in areas where the company has an existing base ...

Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.

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November 30, 1996, ... Raytek Raynger PM portable noncontact thermometers to help its customers get the most out of their presses. Any printing process is difficult to maintain without a good sense of the raw materials and ...

Video web inspection goes quickly from luxury to necessity.

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October 31, 1996, ... the product after it has been printed - too late for any corrections. And what if the defect is missed until it's detected by the customer? Today's vision systems allow printing to be inspected in real ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... million last fiscal year - a 600% increase! And it wasn't by following the above advice. Walle, a converter and printer of high quality, multicolor labels, has concentrated on gaining total, start-to-finish ...

Web-inspection system supports label operation

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July 31, 1996, ... systems help improve performance on Label America's narrow web flexo-graphic presses from Webtron, Mark Andy, and Aquaflex, which print up to eight colors in widths to 18 in. Label America was one of ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, Chamelacolors are long-lasting, light-activated inks that can be applied in-line by conventional printing presses onto any substrate.The decades-long Chamelacolors are long-lasting, light-activated inks ...

Paper characteristics: starting the job right

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April 30, 1996, Of all the components that can affect the quality and ultimate impact of a finished printed product, the base stock often plays the most critical role. Of all the components that can affect the quality ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... "You could hold a meeting of our top officers in a phone booth," he boasts. "There is no bureaucracy here, and it shows clearly in our performance." Years of experience with printing presses gave them ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ... last year further enhanced its capabilities by adding a transportable "RS" rotary screen printing station, built by Stork X-Cel, to the top of its 16-in., six-color Mark Andy 4120 press. (The unit can complement ...

Economic Forecast: More of the Same, Unless...

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December 31, 1995, ... the printed circuit board business is up 15 percent from a year ago. Consumers Do React to Prices Motor vehicle sales also dropped in 1995, due primarily to delayed tax refunds, higher interest rates, ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, ... Palatine, IL. Plant manager Terry Giles and other key Viking employees worked closely with Propheteer engineers to design a press that would print on polystyrene and lay down six colors simultaneously ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

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September 30, 1995, ... the flexo printing market in the Caribbean nations." He added, "We endeavor to even outperform the standards of the more established printers." Among the former British Empire, Barbados, with its population ...

Video web inspection: the view from the press floor.

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September 30, 1995, ... industry itself. These operators control presses ranging from wide web to narrow, with press speeds as fast as 900 fpm or as slow as 150 fpm, printing as few as two colors or as many as ten. The end products ...

Training is the key to success in '90s corporate climb.

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August 31, 1995, ... RI, puts it this way: "Assume you staff your new $3-million printing press with two operators per shift three shifts per day. At an average labor rate of $10 per hour, labor costs will approach $200,000 ...

UV letterpress assures quality at QA Label

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July 31, 1995, ... up meant a lot of sweat and some very good decisions, including the choice of ultraviolet letterpress equipment from Sanki. What happens when you introduce a young offset printer to a former accountant? ...

Quick changeovers, quality top bagmaking demands.

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March 31, 1995, ... machine. It's a bit more expensive bag because print adds value to it. It's made from film sheeting and reaches 200 cycles/min., that's almost twice as much as the last generation." Hokosawa Alpine is ...