Blades
- Printing: Italian Style
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... is particularly good at finding streaks. He says the system is “very good at finding very small doctor blade scratches in non-print areas,” which are almost impossible to see with the naked eye. He indicates ...
- A Touch Above
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... The US manufacturing operation features an 80-in. coater, custom built by Raflatac, and numerous state-of-the-art automatic slitters, featuring high-speed automated blade settings. The company coats ...
- The Signs of Shear Wrinkle
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2004, ... or shear knives develops when one blade pushes down while the other pushes up. Unlike compressive stresses, the up and down forces don't oppose each other directly but are exerted along different planes ...
- Shear Slitting Can Provide Advantages
- (Archive)
- July 30, 2004, ... sharp blades of the scissors cross at an angle and cut. To achieve this, material force is applied on the handle, and as the angle of the junction of the two sharp edges closes up, the cutting takes place. ...
- A Recipe for Flexo Printing Success
- (Flexpack)
- May 30, 2004, ... accurately measure those ingredients? Ink Drawdowns—Has the ink been drawndown using the same volume anilox we will use on the press? If you use a ceramic anilox with a doctor blade on the press, you ...
- New Products for the Converting Industry, PFFC, June 2004
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2004, ... Interface. Doctor Blade Cuts Roll Damage Flexo Concepts, Plymouth, MA; 508/830-9606; flexoconcepts.com Company offers a 0.020-in. polyester blade material designed to replace steel containment blades ...
- New Products, Part 1
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2004, ... Said to offer attractive pricing and short lead times, it handles a wide range of packaging materials. The slitting section is easily accessible and allows good visibility of the scissor or razor blade ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2004, ... is being offered to interested users in exchange for a no-fee confidentiality agreement. Blades Score High in Tests Specialty Blades, Staunton, VA, USA; 800/252-3371; enduriumblades.com Company announces ...
- Software Upgrade for SCRAP TRAKKER Version 5.0
- (News | New Products)
- April 22, 2004, Tescusil-Corr is said to be a suitable food grade release lubricant for Corrugator Razor or Thin Blade slitting tooling. Adhesion of starch on the flanks Tescusil-Corr is said to be a suitable food grade ...
- A Century Salute
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2004, ... progress in flexo-graphic envelope printing. For instance, they brought in things like reverse-angle doctor blade technology, and they've improved our ability to offer our customers enhanced multicolor ...
- Journey Bound to Success
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2004, ... knowledge vacuum. This leaves an unbalanced number of rookies who have yet to develop desirable skills and habits, says sales and leadership specialist Bill Blades, “due to their minute amount of time ...
- FFTA Sponsors Hands-On Narrow Web Press Operation March 25 - 26, 2004
- (News | New Products)
- February 26, 2004, ... maintaining quality, color matching, metering and doctor blade adjustment, setting dies, and safety principles. FFTA says it developed its Basic Flexographer classification to provide recognition for ...
- FFTA Sponsors Hands-On Narrow Web Press Operation March 25 - 26, 2004
- (News | New Products)
- February 26, 2004, ... maintaining quality, color matching, metering and doctor blade adjustment, setting dies, and safety principles. FFTA says it developed its Basic Flexographer classification to provide recognition for ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2004, ... rules is manufactured to stringent tolerances, offering peak cutting and perforating performance, company reports. Line includes multiple blade heights, multiple bevels, standard and long life, and standard ...
- Uteco to Debut New Flexo Press and Gravure Products at Drupa 2004
- (Flexpack)
- January 27, 2004, ... rolls; this feature, reports the OEM, allows for speedy and easy job changes. "Innovations include a new style adjustment-free doctor blade—enabling both blade and end-seal change without the use of tools—as ...
- Products and Materials
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2003, ... of materials, including vinyls, mylars, reflectives, application tapes, nonwovens, and more. A positive-locking chuck system and steel alloy blade ensure a clean, accurate slit, says company, adding convenient ...
- Dual-Deckle System for Trouble-Free Web Width Variation
- (The Place)
- November 30, 2003, ... in the machine direction, it necks-in — becomes narrower — resulting in an accumulation of material on the edges. By adjusting the relative positions of the internal deckle blades, processors can minimize ...
- Mixing It Up
- (Archive)
- November 30, 2003, ... of in-line mixers are available: static and dynamic. A static in-line mixer provides a tortuous path through fixed blades or chambers, whereas a dynamic in-line mixer utilizes powered impellers to achieve ...
- Linebackers, Leashes, & Superman: A Look at Stress
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2003, ... pressure (and temperature). All slitting or cutting methods are designed to create these stresses in the web, whether from the sharp edge of shear or razor blade or the tips of a crosscut knife. We ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2003, ... Air-loaded, two-blade system is offered as stand-alone item or part of a complete edge trim solution. Laminator Runs Films and Foil without Solvents Comexi, Feeding Hills, MA; 413/789-3800; comexi.com ...
- The Power of Three
- (Tapes)
- November 29, 2003, ... a “what's new” in flexographic printing: Quick Load plate-loading technology has pneumatic controls. A “QC” Quick Change ink carriage allows meter rolls and doctor blades to be set outside of press. ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2003, ... custom-built printing presses, wet and dry waxers, laminators, unwinds, rewinds, drying systems, and chamber doctor blade systems, as well as self-contained turnkey installations, consulting, retrofits, ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2003, ... Blades with No Tools Novaflex Inc., Carol Stream, IL; 630/681-9900; novaflex-inc.com “C” clamp design of enclosed chamber doctor blade is said to provide uniform clamping on blades across entire width ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2003, ... engineering industries. Awards Clemson Honors Daetwyler HUNTERSVILLE, NC, USA—Max Daetwyler Corp., manufacturer of precision equipment and doctor blades, received the Clemson University Graphic ...
- Where Does a Spreader Spread?
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2003, ... an upstream idler, across a 24-in. web span, and over the target spreader roller. A razor blade slit the web down the middle, upstream of the spreader roller. A roller's spreading effect was quantified ...
- Meeting the Need
- (Materials)
- September 30, 2003, ... (VCI) treatment for primary packaging of ferrous parts, is applied directly to corrugated, solid fiber, and other paperboard packaging during the converting process. Can be applied with blade or rod coaters, ...
- New Harper Div. Provides Tech Support and Service for Flexo
- (News | New Products)
- September 15, 2003, ... the GET Program; Color Management Training; Graphic Team Meetings; Press Room Management; Fingerprint Access Management; Doctor Blade Evaluation; Scientific Maintenance Program; and the Anilox Protection ...
- Pay Attention to Tension
- (Archive)
- August 31, 2003, ... If there is insufficient tension, the web will gather or stretch around the blade before fracturing. Q: Are score- and shear-slitting quality affected by low tension? A: Score slitting is probably ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2003, ... output. Models convert p-s tapes, foils, and films without the need for conventional unwinding and rewinding. A pivoting blade angle facility is said to ensure all rolls are slit squarely with an excellent ...
- FK Awarded Patent for Changeover-Time Reduction Technology
- (News | New Products)
- August 07, 2003, ... cleaning ink units; changing sleeves or intermediate mandrels and anilox rollers; replacing worn doctor blades; and putting in new inks or setting of new ink parameters, adds co. "Access can be integrated ...