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FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... with printed polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) bags, ISMA soon developed the oriented PP market and began producing laminations. Spritzer's background in PE and PP marketing, combined with Uruguay' ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ... For screen printers, Autotype supplies a range of products for prepress and stencil-making, including the ASPECT thermal imaging system for producing large-format film positives. Applications include printed ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ...  In a privately printed book commemorating Dixie Toga's 50th anniversary (1985), Manuel Vieira, then president of ABRE, the Brazilian Assn. of Packaging and a former Unilever executive, wrote, "Toga is ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... images by the above camera process or combine the process with special computer programs that produce the same effect. The images then are printed on the smooth bottom side of the lenticular plastic. The ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... Combining DuPont's Cyrel photopolymer plates with precise computerized micro dot mounting, the Duralam "narrow web" jobs are printed in register, with color-to-color registration of [+ or -]0.0015 in.  ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

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May 31, 1996, ... is in the Print The final step in the prepress process can be the most critical: determining what your printed product will look like before your print it. Digital proofing allows converters to do just ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... imprinter that eliminates the purchase and storage of preprinted web stocks. The unit can imprint crisp, clear, large and small graphics, reportedly with gravur-type print quality, on all types of paper, ...

Paperbox winners honored for industry excellence

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April 30, 1996, ... offset lithography using both opaque and transparent inks. Materials are .022 solid unbleached sulfate (printed on the kraft side). Kryptonics wanted customers to be able to see the graphics on the ...

AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors

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March 31, 1996, ... who served as converter and metallizer, and Toray Plastics of America Inc., metallizer and substrate supplier. The structure is 48-ga polyester film that is reverse-printed by gravure on Cerrutti equipment ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

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March 31, 1996, ... The bags are antifog-treated and flexo-printed in six colors on 1.18-mil oriented polypropylene. Meat Snacks on View American National Can, Chicago, IL, also won three awards, including one for the ...

The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict

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February 29, 1996, ...  paper "are unicomponent structures," Shea says. "They are repulpable. More than 99 percent is paper itself, and in most printed, metallized labels there's less metal than ink." Today's labels, he says, ar ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ... a combination of high quality flexo, ultraviolet flexo, and screen-printed graphics. The in-line chill drum press can produce short-run labels more cost-effectively than wide, central-impression presses. ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, ... a huge just-in-time order to a major manufacturer. The job, to be printed on matte, clear PS, was complicated. It first required the laydown of an opaque color, followed by the laydown of four additional ...

Flexographic Awards honor top industry achievers

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April 30, 1995, ... & Decker Coffee Maker Box--preprinted linerboard process. Submitted by: Westvaco Flexopak. Art techniques used: electronic and manual. Type of press used: central impression. Type of plate used: photopolymer. ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... seal easily. Using flexography, the graphics are reverse printed on the polyester layer to protect the print from the damages of wind, rain, and abrasion. The finished bags meet a laundry list of requirements, ...

Innovative uses, creativity earn honors from AIMCAL

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March 31, 1995, ... pulses reflected off the glass mirror. Labels are screen printed with conventional inks on a semi-automatic flat-bed press. Tolerances are critical since imprecise tolerance affects timing of the laser ...

Dutch converter expands in worldwide flex-pack market

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January 31, 1995, ... has supplied high-quality printed flexible packaging, mainly for the nonfood sector. The production plants, which were acquired from Stone, are located in St. Paul, MN, and Grand Forks, ND, and concentrate ...

Innovative uses earn honors from film supplier

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December 31, 1994, ... * Richardson Brands Co., South Miami, FL, for its Hip Hop Hares, a brightly printed Easter bubble gum package offering excellent barrier, graphics and machinability. C. P. Converters, York, PA, is the ...

Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age

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December 31, 1994, ... system and the AlanRip. Once the file has been printed to the unit, the image can be previewed as it will actually print - one up or stepped and repeated/distorted. It can be interfaced to Macintosh systems, ...