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Printer Helps Customers Manage Printing Needs

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December 31, 2000, ... offset printing conglomerates when the capabilities of all operations are combined. To implement TPM at its own facility for the benefit of its customers, Wallace strategically audits every variable ...

Graphics of the Americas 2001 Will Offer a Hot Time

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December 31, 2000, ... Spanish. Some highlights of the seminar program that promise to be of special interest to converters: Thursday, February 1 1:30 to 4:30 pm Key Variables in Flexo Printing Friday, February ...

TAPPI's the PLACE to Sponsor Short Courses in Dalla

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November 29, 2000, ... solutions. Students will learn how film fabrication variables influence film properties and how blown and cast extrusion dies work. During the course, participants will hear the latest developments in ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 31, 2000, ... readout provides infinitely variable tension selection, and independent servos drive each impression roll, eliminating line-shaft and coupling errors, co. says. Color Wax/Resin Ribbons Are Durable  ...

Reporter Clips

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October 31, 2000, ... customers many options, including variable thickness, appearance similar to tin, and gold hot-stamping on the cap's skirt and top. A personalized finish is ensured by Sofacap's printing capabilities. ...

Conference Features New Networking Opportunity

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October 31, 2000, ...  Coating Resins—Troubleshooting." He reviewed polymer properties, resin effects on processing, resin effects on the final product, and variables such as melt strength. In a session on "Extrusion Beyon ...

Common Causes of Blocking in Heat Seal CoatingsPart I

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September 30, 2000, ... as explained above for the case of insufficient drying. Another processing variable that can cause blocking is winding the coating into a roll with excessive pressure. Even properly dried heat seal ...

Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper

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September 30, 2000, ... three 60-mm grooved feed throat extruders with the latest variable lead barrier screw technology, Wilson-North says. He adds that a dual-lip air ring is incorporated immediately after the 200-mm, three-layer ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... variable information printing on corrugated boxes, plastics, glass, and more. Silicone Base Paper Is White and Smooth Cham-Tenero Paper Mills Inc., Fabrikstrasse, Switzerland; +41 417853333 Hi-Fi ...

Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

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April 30, 2000, ...  Torque capacity variables include the friction coefficient of the friction material, the friction disc diameter, and the number of friction discs and air actuation elements in the brake. Air-actuated ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, ... and manual machine adjustment (causing variable accuracy, excessive downtime, waste materials, and astronomical maintenance costs) are a thing of the past. I/O modules, programmable logic controllers ...

Negotiating an Acquisition: Nine Steps to Success

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March 31, 2000, ... between the parties; and the replaceability of a party in the case of deadlocked negotiations. However the most significant difference is the variables and factors that the parties use to generate leverage ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... business that has been started this year with local and multinational companies; and the startup of a service to print variable information for promotion packs. As a service for its customers, ISMA ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... liners; they are used, he says, to keep in the Freon-type products. Activity in Variable Packaging "Active packaging" is also a trend in plastic-film packaging, though Mark Foote says that this "variable" ...

Movin' on up - a look at relocating a business.

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November 30, 1996, ... to the success (or failure) of an enterprise can depend less on what you sell than on where you sell it. There are many variables that may enter into the decision to relocate or expand a business, including ...

Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.

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November 30, 1996, ... paper." Ink temperature, paper temperature, and equipment temperature taken together are among the most significant dependent variables in the print equation, he stresses. Over the past several years, ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... control of every critical material we use - such as inks - and tight control on every manufacturing step we perform," Keeney says. "Our key has been to eliminate as many variables as possible from the process ...

Bagmaking machines adapt to conquer new markets.

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July 31, 1996, ... being made, based on the bag length, machine speed, and programming variables. And finally, Helming reports that operator interfaces have evolved to the point where they actually guide an operator through ...

Pressure-sensitive line utilizes all-vector drive system

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June 30, 1996, ... and, with older AC, the variable-frequency technology used to have poor torque performance at low speeds," says Sherwood. "We realize comparable or better low-speed and low-torque control with MagneTek' ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... In fact, he says, "a lot of people are not able to run them." Variables such as screw design, temperature, and shear can all adversely affect the finished film. If metallocenes are overheated, for example, ...