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Digital Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... three direct digital mask-removal processes, including removal from photo- polymer, enabling plate processing for printing and embossing forms; removal from metal, enabling multilayer, high-resolution ...

Presses and People Make a Powerful Combination

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... raw materials and accessories, Valestrino notes, including Fasson rollstock, Akzo Nobel inks, DuPont photopolymer plates, and Rotoflex rewinders. Earning Its Good Reputation Today L.A. Label converts ...

Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... the flexo landscape significantly in regard to quality. Laser-engraved photopolymer plates combined with chamber doctor blades and ceramic anilox rolls have been major factors in the move toward flexo. ...

Hologram in 3-D Makes Postage Stamp a Keeper

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... guide, then hired an animal trainer, built a flight cage, and photographed the dove in flight. Recording the flight was essential, as the image in a stereogram must replicate reality. The photographs then ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... on a Power Macintosh with a calibrated Barco monitor. A new line produces photopolymer printing plates for the flexo operation, and rotogravure cylinders are manufactured under stringent ecological ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... photoelectric counting systems for exact label counts. Dry Flexo Plates Speed Up Process DuPont Cyrel, Wilmington, DE; 302/999-2065; dupont.com/cyrel Cyrel FAST dry flexo platemaking system reportedly ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... Hunter, Prime Graphics Internet Communications, chaired by Scott Gilbert, St. Laurent Paperboard Corp. Prepress, chaired by Chris Deye, Phototype Science Council, chaired by Chris Harper, ...

Anilox Rolls Are Key When Printing Corrugated Board

(Print)

July 31, 2000, ... "Because we need to have maximum control over all production conditions to guarantee the quality, we have selected suppliers carefully so [their equipment] can help us control those conditions. We use photopolymer ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... s called eletrophotographic printing; these are electric photographic digital printers, what I would call 'electrostatic' types; they depend on a charge movement of an image. In this type of printing, you ...

Golden Cylinders Go to Gravure's Very Bes

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... Sonoco Flexible Packaging for Mother Parker's Higgins & Burke Coffees. The first package, which went from flexo to gravure, was cited for its photographic quality. DuPont, Wilmington, DE, supplied the film. ...

Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... do not disperse friction material particles into the surrounding air, making them the preferred option for applications in food processing and pharmaceutical plants, as well as in photographic film processing ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ...  For the most part, curtain coating has been developed to a high degree of sophistication in the photographic industry in order to explore its simultaneous multilayer capabilities and the resulting enormous ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... materials, which are distributed in the general display, large-format digital print, photolab, picture framing, and sign markets; plus a host of industrial products, including double-sided tapes, protection ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

(Magazine)

December 31, 1999, ... and features four gas chromatographs; two spectrophotometers; four Mocons for testing oxygen and moisture vapor transmission rates; and a great deal of additional testing equipment. The prepress department, ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

(Magazine)

December 31, 1999, ... about anything a photographer/designer can imagine. Jacobsen is careful to point out that lenticular printing and hologram technology are not the same. "A lot of people confuse holograms with three-dimensional, ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ...  mid-size converters might use an outside vendor for artwork preparation and plates," Faletti says. "However, we've invested in a top-of-the-line AGFA imagesetter for our conventional rubber and photopolyme ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ... at a cost claimed to be substantially less than that required for producing short-run jobs on a flexo or screen press. The Impressa can produce continuous-tone, photo-quality labels without dithering and ...

Gravure winners go for gold

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ...  * Hallmark Cards Inc. for photo gold ornaments wrapping paper: Cited for excellent execution throughout the production process and the consistent reproduction of a photo-quality image; * Constant ...

FTA winners show off strides in Flexo

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... - is pushing ahead. Tonal range capability is expanding; high-solids inks are improving densities; direct-to-plate technology is becoming a reality for photopolymer - all reflect flexo's growth into a measurable, ...