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Web Cleaning: To Contact or Not?

(Web Cleaning)

January 31, 2011, ... bars are powerful ionizers that can cope with the fast web speeds found on modern printing and converting machinery. Mounted close to the web, the AC ionization neutralizes charges of either polarity. ...

Core Savings

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

December 31, 2010, ... the splicer makes the transfer while the accumulator pays out web to the press at full speed. The amount of core waste resulting from this typical method of splice initiation depends upon three factors: ...

Static Beat: Conductive Antistatic Layers

(Static Elimination)

December 31, 2010, ... lower resistivities are needed. Speed | What is your line speed or process speed? Processes with higher speeds require lower resistivities. Table II summarizes the broad range of materials available ...

An Experienced Team

(Magazine)

December 31, 2010, ... points to current and prospective customers. As an example, he points to one customer that had a difficult label job that needed to run at high speeds — in a wet environment — without tearing. The company ...

Avoid Marking Sensitive Materials

(Sheeting)

December 31, 2010, High-speed delivery system on precision sheeters avoids marking sensitive materials when shingling sheets. Design manages sheet flow by controlling the High-speed delivery system on precision sheeters ...

Using Electrostatic Voltmeters

(Static Elimination)

November 30, 2010, ... TRESPONSE should be faster for higher film speeds as in Figure 3. sexlocals For example, to detect a 1-mm static spot on a film moving at 10 m/s (about 2 Kfpm), the TRESPONSE should be no greater than ...

Static Beat: How To Use Electrostatic Fieldmeters

(Static Elimination)

October 31, 2010, ... (TRESPONSE) should be fast enough to detect charge patches with the same size as the spatial resolution (LRESOLUTION). The response time (TRESPONSE) depends on the film transport speed (UFILM) as in Equation ...

FTA Co-Sponsors Educational Conferences at CPP Expo

(Trends/Management News)

October 14, 2010, ... tighter color tolerances and the faster production speeds of today's presses. Speaker: Alexander James, Harper Graphic Solutions. Held Monday, Nov. 1, 9—9:50 A.M., Rm. 503-A. • The Flexo Dream: How Direct ...

Coating Tech Service Presents at AIMCAL Fall Tech Conference

(Coating/Laminating News)

October 13, 2010, ... for the web; machine speed and protection of the coated surface from contamination.  Most label manufacturers employ some means of remoisturizing the web after curing to bring the moisture in the substrate, ...

Montalvo Website Features Tension Upgrade

(Tension)

October 12, 2010, ... able to compete with the newer presses at a fraction of the cost of a new press, the ability to run lighter substrates, achieve faster line speeds, improve registration, increase production and minimizes ...

Web Lines: Web Length per Roller Revolution=?

(Editorial)

September 30, 2010, ... the speed difference between a steel and rubber-covered roller is proportional to the covering indentation divided by four times the covering thickness. For a 20-mil indentation of a 0.5-in. covering, ...

Static Beat: Prevent Winter Static

(Static Elimination)

September 30, 2010, ... to a given speed; measure the roller speed; note the speed and start the stop watch; and measure the time until the roller stops. Keep a log of the spin-down times for each of your low-wrap rollers. Shorter ...

Coating/Laminating: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... PerfectStart (no-foldback)automatic transfer system. Capacity & Speed More Than Doubles…Quietly Since operating the new equipment and splicing technology, Selig has more than doubled its capacity while ...

Pilot Coaters: Small Volume, Big Advances

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, Until recently, development of laboratory and pilot coater technology has been relatively stagnant. The many improvements increased coating speeds, improved Until recently, development of laboratory ...

Flexographic Printing: Super Setup

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

September 30, 2010, ... time to time. Its newest press is a Uteco Emerald, installed about two years ago. At the time, Envases Del Pisueña needed greater capacity in terms of the number of colors, machine speeds, and overall ...

Bobst Group to Present Latest Technologies at K 2010

(Flexpack News)

September 27, 2010, ... accessories like edge trim and finished reel handling, with a maximum speed of 1,000 m/min and 1,200 mm unwind/rewind diameters. There are over 100 Atlas CW800 slitters working with metallizers, CPP & ...

Davis-Standard Introduces New Coater at Labelexpo America

(Coating/Laminating)

September 05, 2010, ... and fix problems via a secure, high-speed Internet connection. Immediate online access to equipment is said to minimize lengthy downtimes. The Integrator C is a new single-point system that replaces ...

Inspect Labels of Many Sizes, Shapes

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

August 31, 2010, ... Company says real-time, high-speed processor will handle many critical functions simultaneously without slowing or changing speed of production. Independent lane configuration allows users to run multiple ...

Investing in Short Runs

(Label/Tape)

August 31, 2010, ... factory manager at Label Leaders. “The speed and ease of job setup and changeover in addition to the flexibility in producing smaller runs of unique labels led to our decision to invest in the [equipment].” ...

Show Preview: Heroes Welcome-Labelexpo Americas 2010

(Label/Tape)

July 31, 2010, ... graphics while the machine continues to run at full speed. Label Traxx-Tailored Solutions, Booth 6017, will demonstrate the Digital File Planner, said to dramatically reduce file preparation time for ...