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Gravure Rolls Up Its Sleeves to Do Battle with Flexo

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ... president of Novaflex (novaflexinc.com), “gravure presses were over-engineered and expensive. For a time the trend was toward a system in which the trolley was removed automatically and reinserted. Today, ...

Self-Adhesive Labels: Past, Present, and Future

(Magazine)

October 31, 2002, ... on a roll, so specialized web-fed presses were developed that could print, die-cut, matrix-strip, and rewind in-line. Early label presses were based on the letterpress process. Multi-process printing lines ...

Controlling Coater Gap Uniformity

(Magazine)

October 31, 2002, Maintaining high levels of accuracy is critical in controlling coater gap uniformity. The role of noncontact thin gap sensors is discussed in in this article. The common thread between end-users and ...

Quality Controlled Music Packaging

(Magazine)

August 31, 2002, ... printing. (For a list of preflighting solutions, scroll down to the end.) “We chose TIFF/IT-P1 for the times,” Sony Music's Allenfort remarks, “but our format in the future, I'm convinced, will be PDF.” ...

What's New at Labelexpo America

(Magazine)

July 31, 2002, New from: AAA Press, Black Clawson, Bunting Magnetics, Corotec, Delta Industrial, EIT Instrument Markets, Eltromat, Nilpeter, Nireco America, Pillar Technologies, Prime UV Systems, and Simco Industrial. ...

The High End of EDP Labels

(Office Products)

June 30, 2002, ... Label. Do-It-Yourself Philosophy Traditionally, says Cochran, EDP labels have been produced in “commodity” fashion, with suppliers converting master rolls of pressure-sensitive material into die-cut ...

Waste Not: Waste Management in Europe's Packaging and Label Industrie

(Magazine)

June 30, 2002, ... implications across Europe. If the U.K. maintains this unilateral stance, the cost of buying self-adhesive labels in the U.K. will be impacted, according to the British Roll Label Assn., by an increase ...

Labelexpo Americas 2002: Exhibitors and First-Timers Growing

(News | New Products)

May 08, 2002, Labelexpo Americas 2002 show organizer, Tarsus, recently announced: "the roll call of exhibitors signing up to be showcased at [the upcoming event] is growing longer weekly, now stands at 400, and among ...

P-S Labels Every Which Way

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, Tadbik Ltd. reports it is the largest pressure-sensitive label converter in Israel, controlling more than 60% of that country's prime label market and Tadbik Ltd. reports it is the largest pressure-sensitive ...

Printing Private Labels

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... and all at the same time. For a narrow web roll label converter, that's virtually impossible. For Smyth Companies, it's just another press run. That's because the group's Bedford, VA, facility is one of ...

TLMI Inspires Members to Roll On

(News | New Products)

March 10, 2002, Having enjoyed the benefits of double-digit growth in the roll-to-roll tag and label business in the 1980s and ’90s, converters are now facing the realities of single-digit growth in the new millennium. ...

Indigo-Nilpeter Bring Inline Finishing to Digital Label Printing

(News | New Products)

October 03, 2001, ... now will be available to Indigo customers. They include an interface unit with web-tension and web-guiding controls; digitally controlled or conventional die-cutting and waste rewind; a UV flexo varnishing ...

TLMI Awards: Hardworking Labels & Tags Reap Their Reward

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... with the company's color separator to create proprietary Hexachrome density targets and ranges prior to the actual press run. New technology in anilox rollers was utilized to print fine dots, vignettes, ...

Prime Labels Are More Than a Family Affair

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... with two or three rolls of each SKU going to hundreds of stores across the country. Tropper sees this as the future of the label business for many converters like Prestige. “Eventually, I don't think ...

Russian Label Show Exhibits Lively Growth

(Magazine)

June 30, 2001, ... was the Fasson Roll Div. of Avery Dennison. The European international self-adhesive labelling industry association, FINAT, also gave the show its blessing, along with the Russian packaging association ...

New Label Press Moves Company to the Next Level

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... press and set up a label printing operation in Ed's garage in Lisle, IL. Nine months later, long-run orders for very small rolls were increasing, forcing the company to add a turret rewinder to the operation. ...

The Need to Know Drives Pharma Labeling Market

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... follows three basic operations: printing, guillotining, and folding. An estimated 90% of Manati's products are prefolded prior to shipment to the customer, while 10% is supplied on rollstock or flat ...

Innovation Drives Converter of Pressure-Sensitive Labels

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... strictly to the production of p-s labels, capturing almost 15% of Spain's market. Out of a total of approximately 200 million sq m of roll-fed, p-s material used in Spain, the Caposa Group converted 25 ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... offset presses operate at widths to 40 in.; each press can run up to eight colors at speeds up to 15,000 sheets/hr. The Harahan plant's offset inkmaking department boasts three large roll grinding machines ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... Speed Sleeve system on both the silicone applicator and adhesive cotter backup rolls to allow for ten-minute changeovers. With this pneumatically operated system, the entire change sequence can be accomplished ...