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System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

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February 29, 2000, ... g or not." The Mentor plant produces high-precision coated flexible media, including print-receptive topcoats, barrier and pigmented coatings, abrasion and ultraviolet-resistant coatings, tie coats, vin ...

Cartonmarker Adds Flexo to Give Customers a Choice

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February 29, 2000, ... and the tools to do soft proofing." In addition to die-cutting, in-line operations include sheeting, ultraviolet coating, blister coating, hot stamping, stripping, and backside printing. Kempsmith manufactured ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... coating with in-line UV (ultraviolet) curing. Draper explains, "We purchased a new Bematec slot-die coating head and engaged T.H. Dixon to build a machine-to our specification-around the head. The Dixon ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... includes two Bobst Lemanic machines. There is also one Arpeco eight-color flexo press as well as hot foil and UV (ultraviolet) equipment to further enhance carton production. The company's material suppliers ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ... materials such as shrink sleeves, adhesives and ultraviolet inks in the proper temperature range for trouble-free converting. With the proliferation of exotic substrates and water-based inks, surface ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... metallic gold and silver. "The system is designed to produce completely waterproof, ultraviolet-stable, and weatherable products for anyone selling short-run labels on a wholesale basis," says Kathleen ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... what sort of ink technology - solvent-based, water-based, or ultraviolet-cured - can best meet their needs for wide web flexography. The ink that wins favor must satisfy high industry standards not only ...

New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP

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August 31, 1996, ... These developments include improved oxygen and water barrier, higher temperature resistance, higher strength, and intrinsic ultraviolet light barrier. At present, PEN provides approximately five times ...

A look at the status of UV/EB curing

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June 30, 1996, An expert in the field assesses the current state of ultraviolet and electron beam curing.RadTech '96 North America, the fifth biennial UV/EB Processing An expert in the field assesses the current state ...

FTA winners show off strides in Flexo

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June 30, 1996, ... doctor blade Mounting system: optical Inks: water and ultraviolet Sequence of printing: pink (300), yellow (550), magenta (700), cyan (700), black (700), spot black (360), spot gold (300), varnish ...

UV/EB technology moves ahead with the times

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June 30, 1996, Converters have been fueling the growth of the ultraviolet-curing industry at a rate of 20% per year for the past ten years. George Pasternack, manager Converters have been fueling the growth of the ultraviolet-curing ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, ... cost-prohibitive for runs of any serious length. All that has changed with the development of Chamelacolors, a graphic enhancement coating that's activated by sunlight, ultraviolet, or black light. It' ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... in as little as an hour. It features a compact, integrated design and can be run by one press operator for conventional printing as well as optional ultraviolet curing. He notes that PCMC's engineers designed ...

MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

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May 31, 1996, ... Two proprietary coaters feature automatic splicing, fiber-optically linked drive packages, laser inspection, and ultraviolet coating capability. Off-line slitting is done in a separate department. "We ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

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May 31, 1996, ... to film, film to polycoated paper or film to paper labels. To eliminate heat-induced distortion of film liners, the machine uses ultraviolet curing for the silicone release coating. The first coating ...

Flexo label printer grows by leaps and bounds

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April 30, 1996, ... our business today. I'd say 90 or 95 percent of our business is flexo," says Mintz. "We eventually added a four-color Comco Cadet with ultraviolet capability, and, when the time came to add still another ...

Plate advances bring flexo closer to offset

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April 30, 1996, ... platemaking technology continue unabated. This article, because of space constraints, will be limited to flexo and ultraviolet flexo, not because innovations in offset, gravure, or any, of the other more ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... for both the printing and impression cylinders. It is also available with other efficiency options, including high-performance drying for water-based inks and ultraviolet dryers, as well as in-line finishing ...

Today's printing presses are whatever you want them to be

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March 31, 1996, ... in the label industry, growth has been 9% to 14%, capturing 80% to 85% of that market's share." Also showing tremendous growth is ultraviolet flexo. "That's the emerging technology of the 90s," says Farkas, ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... Series, 2-kW power supply. The Enercon treater is installed on a Captain 10-in., six-color ultraviolet flexo press from Comco, Milford, OH, located in the university's Graphic Communications building. ...