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- TLMI Speaker Shares Tactics & Strategies for Greatest Economic Value
- (News | New Products)
- March 10, 2010, ... sharing information, being accessible, and they keep their hands dirty by getting rid of superficial distinctions, such as big offices or fancy cars. Stewards stand for something by making things better; ...
- Proofing Software Maximizes Workflow
- (Prepress)
- March 03, 2010, ... HP Z3100 with internal spectrophotometer, and has used GMG FlexoProof proofing software for proofing designs and delivering contract proofs. By creating highly accurate press profiles, the company can ...
- Free Shrink Sleeve Seminar at Clemson Univ.
- (News | New Products)
- March 01, 2010, The Sonoco Packaging Inst. at Clemson Univ. will host a free shrink sleeve seminar, titled "Think Before You Shrink." Joint sponsors OMET (featuring the Varyflex Gearless-Shaftless-Sleeve press) CLEMSON, ...
- VaryFlex Press Goes To Costa Rica
- (Narrow Web)
- February 28, 2010, LECCO, ITALY | Omet has sold a VaryFlex-F1 press to Polymer, a package printer based in Costa Rica. The nine-color flexo press is fitted with in-line LECCO, ITALY | Omet has sold a VaryFlex-F1 press to ...
- Flexible Packaging: Capital Commitments
- (Flexpack)
- February 28, 2010, ... to register, it reads the plate and compares the plate that we plan to print with the image approved by the customer. It will tell us if it doesn't match and something's wrong,” says Imburgia. Packaging ...
- Blown Film: Measuring Melt Temps
- (Controls)
- February 28, 2010, ... variation. Similarly, airflow distribution about the bubble is extremely critical for uniform films. We can measure these variations through the use of air velocity measurement devices or velometers. ...
- Web Lines: Your Guide to Web Guiding | Part 1
- (Web Guiding)
- February 28, 2010, ... crossweb relative positioning of two or more features of your web or equipment. To most people, registration is something used in printing and packaging to align one print or die-cut pattern to another. ...
- Static Beat: How To Measure Static
- (Static Elimination)
- February 28, 2010, ... how an electrostatic fieldmeter measures static charge, take a look at the basic model geometry shown in Figure 1. To help visualize the electric field between the film and the floor in Figure 1, the ...
- Craig S. Sheppard
- (Experience Speaks)
- February 28, 2010, Executive Director of AIMCAL Management style | Hands-on. Do whatever it takes. Sometimes being executive director means I take out the trash. How did Executive Director of AIMCAL Management style | ...
- Green Platemaking for Clemson
- (News | New Products)
- February 17, 2010, Asahi places environmentally friendly platemaking system at Sonoco Inst. of Packaging ATLANTA, GA | Thanks to a recent installation of equipment by Asahi Photoproducts), Clemson students, faculty, and ...
- Web Lines: Pitch & Catch Guiding
- (Web Guiding)
- January 31, 2010, ... but sometimes intentionally off-center. For a pitcher, the reference is home plate, a fixed target. For an unwind sidelay guide, the target is a fixed web sensor, either a single edge sensor or a set of ...
- Nonwovens Converting: H1N1 Antidote
- (Substrates)
- January 31, 2010, ... available to the healthcare market since the early '90s,” says Kappler, “and we always see spikes in interest when something like SARS, or bird flu, and now swine flu hits, but I admit the healthcare field' ...
- Technical Report: Thin Coating Challenges
- (Coatings)
- January 31, 2010, ... of an inch or 25.4 micrometers (microns)] for easy comparison, and an average was calculated for coatings and substrates. The results are summarized in Table I. Challenges To Resolve There are several ...
- Wind with Less Vibration
- (New Products)
- January 31, 2010, The Goebel optiwind two-drum winder handles materials to 7,000 mm at a speed of 3.000 mpm. Variable drum roller geometry is said to enable rollers in The Goebel optiwind two-drum winder handles materials ...
- Detect Subtle Registration Marks
- (New Products)
- December 31, 2009, ... registration marks in printing and material registration applications feature simplified setup via potentiometer adjustment of the switching threshold and switch-selectable light/dark-operate outputs. ...
- Digital Press Gives High Definition
- (New Products)
- December 31, 2009, ... LED-based imaging head said to generate image quality with sharp, crisp details, high definition, and smooth tone transitions. Two in-line densitometers and high-performance process algorithms provide ...
- Hans Deamer
- (Trends/Management)
- December 31, 2009, ... Time goes by so fast; you must relax sometimes and take some time for your family…kids grow so fast, and if you miss it, you can't get it back. What is the biggest threat to the converting industry ...
- Flexo4all Reunites Flexo Leaders
- (News | New Products)
- December 14, 2009, ... all part of the original founders of flexo4all, have decided to renew their commitment to the alliance. Bobst, Comexi, Soma, Omet, DuPont Packaging Graphics, EskoArtwork, Lohmann, Tesa, Windmöller & Hölscher, ...
- Puzzled by Slitting?
- (News | New Products)
- December 02, 2009, ... you are slitting savvy? Match your slitting knowledge against co-workers by completing the hotlinked Slitting Puzzle, provided by slitting consultant/educator Dave Rumson. Who knows, you might learn something ...
- Films 101: Back to Basics
- (Archive)
- November 30, 2009, ... expensive and up to two to three times faster than the cast alternative. For added strength, films are sometimes oriented during manufacturing through the use of a tenter frame or similar process where ...