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Challengers Press On

(Tapes)

October 31, 2006, ... natural quartz surfaces. Challenges were presented in printing details of wood cabinets, quartz surfaces, and flowers while maintaining the lines of the wine bottles. Supplier data is proprietary.  ...

Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities

(Archive)

October 30, 2006, ... and solvent-based), UV curing, gas-fired dryers, IR drying, corona treatment, laminating, heat bond laminating, priming, printing, unwind/rewind trials, winding (differential, center, surface, center/surface), ...

Capturing Growth in Paper

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2006, ... impact, low cost, good print surface, acceptable durability and strength, and good converting performance. With the recent price increases for petroleum-based materials, film-based substrates are forecast ...

CPP: Season Two

(Magazine)

September 30, 2006, ... set up, knife dimensional run-out, blade surface finish, and blade regrinding importance. Class attendees should leave this session with a better understanding of their slitting operation and concrete ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

September 30, 2006, ... Equipment DuPont, Wilmington, DE; 800/441-9503; dupont.com CorrSurface Protect (CSP) coatings and lubricants are for maintenance of equipment used by manufacturers of corrugated boxes. CSP 3560 for pretreating ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

August 31, 2006, ... roll for coating, calendering, and laminating applications has mechanical accuracy of 1 µm. Jacket chambers contain a vacuum-sealed thermal medium that results in a uniform surface temperature of ±0.1 ...

LABELEXPO new product digest

(Magazine)

August 31, 2006, ... Falls, WI; 262/255-6070; www.enerconind.com A new Compak 2000 surface treating power supply features an advanced graphic display interface. System reportedly simplifies installation and operation by ...

LabelExpo

(Magazine)

July 31, 2006, ... OH; 770/853-4677; www.betalasermike.com The LaserSpeed 9000 noncontact measurement gauge uses Laser Doppler Velocimetry technology to measure the speed and length of any moving product or surface to ...

What Makes Winding Difficult?

(Archive)

July 31, 2006, ... winding easier? Anything that lowers the stack modulus will help. Lower the tension and pressure in the roll, wind on a compliant core, increase the surface roughness, add a soft coated layer, or wind ...

Labelexpo What's Ne

(Archive)

July 30, 2006, ...  The LaserSpeed 9000 noncontact measurement gauge uses Laser Doppler Velocimetry technology to measure the speed and length of any moving product or surface to an accuracy of ±0.05% or better. Other benefits ...

Films Face Off

(Magazine)

June 29, 2006, ... Typically, adhesion is due to chemical bonding of the aluminum metal to the surface on which it is deposited through a covalent bond. The strength of the bond increases with the polarity, or difference ...

Narrow Web What's Ne

(Magazine)

June 29, 2006, ... are available in a variety of facestocks/adhesive combinations, including 60# Semi-Gloss Elite facestock with a blue-white shade and smooth print surface and C2500 optimized hot melt adhesive. Said to ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 14, 2006, ... IN—Praxair Surface Technologies will consolidate its laser-engraved ceramic anilox roll technology and operations for wide web markets at its Charlotte, NC, manufacturing plant and for narrow web markets ...

Whatever Floats Your Web

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... you can use natural lubrication, something you get when the entrained air by the moving web and roller is greater than the roughness or textures of their surfaces (see “Web Lines,” February 2006). To ...

The Top 10

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... of single-frame captures, video movies, and time-lapse photography. Includes customized optics and accessories. Praxair Surface Technologies—praxair-printing.com Press Offers Precision Printing The ...

A Bunch of Hot Air

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... web drying curve—web surface temperature plotted vs. distance downstream from the dryer entrance—is a good general depiction of the drying process. Figure 1 shows four separate regimes that we usually ...

New Products

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... on the fly. Clean, Treat Many Surfaces Enercon Industries Corp., Menomonee Falls, WI; 262/255-6070; enerconind.com Dyna-A-Mite surface treater is said to provide a safe and effective means ...

Digital Integration

(Magazine)

March 30, 2006, ... create precise magnetic images on the surface of a specially coated metal cylinder. Toner with magnetic properties is then attracted selectively to the magnetic image to “develop” it, which then is transferred ...

If Not Rough, How About Groovy?

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, Even though rough surfaces have a bad reputation, rough is better than smooth to fight lubrication from air or liquid lubrication. But is rough the best solution? Web Lines Last month I presented the ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... extrusion, melt fracture or sharkskin is a phenomenon attributed to the stick/slip behavior of molten plastic flowing through a melt channel. If unaddressed, melt fracture causes the extrudate surface ...