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Digital News for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ... to be on the market early next year. Notes Purup-Eskofot CEO/president William Schulin-Zeuthen, "This is the first step of benefiting from the synergy created through the merger of [our company] and Scanview. ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ... customer's concept and the final cylinder without using film. Transparent or reflection copies are provided on a high quality drum or surface scanner. A scanned copy is treated by electronic retouching ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... as they provide the ability to synchronize for same-spot measurement with multiple sensor/scanners. Plates Are Friendly to Environment MacDermid Graphic Arts, Atlanta, GA; 404/696-4565; macdermid.com ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... that include intermittent motion thermoforming and pouch or blister machines. According to mfr., platen printer provides top quality imprints, scannable bar codes, and graphics on Tyvek, laminates, and ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

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June 30, 2000, ... of a job, such as the bar code or process color graphic, with one camera while scanning the full width with the other. The Benefits Sold Themselves Decker lists a number of features that attracted ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... scanner, a Technidyne opacity and brightness meter, and a Mocon Oxtran and Permatran. Starting Off Right According to Gordon Jones, Blue Ridge Paper Products has been running in the black since it ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

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May 31, 2000, ... companies report they have increased the number of products they get from APR since they began on-line ordering. Marquart says a quick scan of the company's on-line product list revealed some items that ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... and back graphics, registered." Bell says Kapak began scanning the industry for printing/laminating converters that could deliver strength and quality. "At the request of Procter & Gamble, virtually ...

Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur

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March 31, 2000, ... is what we see. Environmental Management Systems As converters scan the environmental regulatory landscape, little is really new. Like most other industries, the converting industry has emerged from ...

Anilox roll advancements raise the quality of flexo

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November 30, 1996, ... says Gilbert, is a second generation of computer-controlled, vertically scanning optical profilers that operate on principles of white light interferometry that can measure height differences as little ...

Gauging system lights the way

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August 31, 1996, ... the shortest payback period," adds Paul Lightkep, purchasing manager. "Price-wise, Betacontrol is very competitive, and the fact that we only had to have one scanner, which oscillates across the web, made ...

Dutch converter retakes his company

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July 31, 1996, ... paper, and plastic film from suppliers in Germany, France, Scandinavia, England, and Belgium. The finishing department includes slitters from Goebel and Kampf, embossers, and die-cutters (designed and ...

On-line gauging brings big benefits to coating operation

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July 31, 1996, ... since NDC was able to lower the size and weight of the source shielding because the radiation output was so much lower, it was able to develop a compact scanning frame that is completely maintainable by ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, ... project and have the negative scanned to determine exactly how many square inches there are in the image that's to be printed with Chamelacolors. "We consider the number of units to be produced, have a mutually ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

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May 31, 1996, ... a variety of new products from imagesetting and platemaking equipment to drum recorders and scanners since the start of this year alone. For example, responding to industry-wide demand for more environmentally ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... film, and foil. The printer can also produce scannable bar codes at speeds up to 500 fpm on a continuous motion web. Results are accomplished by an advanced flexographic doctor blade system and anilox ...

Flat tax proposal is getting serious consideration

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February 29, 1996, ... say there is scant evidence that such a tax would bolster economic growth. And some say that the flat tax proposals offered thus far would dramatically lighten the tax burden of big corporations and the ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, ... 9550 Imagesetter and the latest in computer hardware and software, scanners, a Kelleigh plate-making system and Hewlet Packard color proofing equipment. Viking was counting on the new press to deliver ...

Measurement technique improves metallized PP

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November 30, 1995, ... surface detail it is attempting to measure. In 1993 a new technique known as vertical scanning interference microscopy was developed. This technology specifically addresses the shortcomings of stylus ...

Video web inspection: the view from the press floor.

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September 30, 1995, ... web, I need to scan it entirely in a matter of seconds, not minutes." For Moore, this initial dissatisfaction with video inspection led to a nationwide vendor search conducted by all six press operators ...