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- Print 09 Preview of Exhibits
- (Print Main)
- August 16, 2009, ... will exhibit the 706 Hi-Print UV press with in-line foil prindor that automatically adjusts for substrates ranging from 0.04-mm thin paper to 1-mm cardboard. Can print on top of foil in any color and has ...
- How To Prevent Unwinding Roll Static
- (Static Elimination)
- July 31, 2009, ... many static problems by doing two things. First, do a quick “static check” on the roll to see if it is “hot.” Next, monitor the static on the unwinding film to verify that your incoming material meets ...
- Breaking Barriers
- (Digital)
- July 31, 2009, ... the ongoing improvements in inks, printheads, and image quality that inkjet can deliver. Says Skelly, “Those kinds of things have brought inkjet much closer to the mainstream than ever before. “Demand ...
- Narrow Web & Label
- (Narrow Web)
- June 30, 2009, ... within the same cut file, allowing for perforations or multilayer applications. Allen Datagraph Systems | 800-258-6360 | www.allendatagraph.com Circle 341 or visit www.freeproductinfo.net/pff A Guide ...
- Home Grown
- (Coating/Laminating Main)
- June 30, 2009, ... and other commonly handled products. The surface protection of the specialty film remains on the product and doesn't wash off. “We're known for doing interesting things with films, creating that unusual ...
- PTI To Produce Small Quantity Prototypes
- (News Clips Archive)
- June 30, 2009, ... the ability to produce small quantity extrusion prototypes for multilayer cast film and sheet products within two weeks. The prototyping capability includes up to three materials and five layers. Materials ...
- Crime Stoppers
- (Archive)
- June 30, 2009, ... watches, and designer handbags could never be the real thing. And even if they are not exact copies, only simulation, there is a ready, profitable market for them on the street. Another tack often taken ...
- Forensic Packaging
- (Special Reports)
- June 30, 2009, Counterfeiting is far from victimless; it's also nothing new. What is new is its scope and diversity, which is creating parallel markets in many product categories. Counterfeiting is far from victimless; ...
- Flexo Forum Fervor
- (Flexography)
- June 30, 2009, ... technology and auxiliary equipment purchases are mimicking European practices. He encouraged sleeve manufacturers to assist emerging markets, starting at the administrative level. Something for Everyone ...
- WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: July 200
- (New Products)
- June 30, 2009, ... Detection Technology is designed to monitor 1-16 webs of material and detect any splice or joint within the web-based process. Unaffected by printed surfaces, material color, grade changes, and process ...
- Trending Upward Proactively
- (Editorial)
- May 31, 2009, ... the FTA [Flexographic Technical Assn.] meetings within the last month; but I can report the two meetings I attended sounded very much like your report of the AIMCAL meeting. Lower attendance, some doom ...
- Contamination Combat
- (Web Cleaning)
- May 31, 2009, ... with skin flakes (the prime source of dust), hair, and fibers from clothing and so forth. As webs and sheets are fed through the printing station, particles from these sources are deposited on blankets, ...
- Stress & Strain
- (Archive)
- May 31, 2009, ... but lose the ability to create uniform slitting exit tension. Many of the features of good slitter tensioning are not things you can change after you purchase a slitter. Thankfully, many slitter/rewinder ...
- Clean Cut
- (Slit Main)
- May 31, 2009, ... of slitting in its simplest terms: “Basically anything made in a wide web format sooner or later needs to be slit down to a more usable size for further processing.” As obvious as that is, the success ...
- Extreme Slitting
- (Slit Main)
- May 31, 2009, ... and widths. Etchells says this niche has allowed Metlon to compete economically with offshore suppliers of similar-type materials. “This is something that helped us keep going as the industry has gone ...
- Lean & Green
- (Substrates)
- May 31, 2009, ... LumLife MK61 thin, high-barrier metallized PET is manufactured with a proprietary metal adhesion process said to provide excellent metal bonding in wet and caustic packaging applications. Foil-free ...
- Growth Strategy
- (Flexpack Main)
- May 31, 2009, ... achievement award” for its “Smart Pack” system, the first “pouch within a pouch” liquid yeast package for beer and wine making (see PFFC March 2007 p52). To activate the yeast, the inner packet containing ...
- ILS Adds Newest HP Digital Press
- (News | New Products)
- May 31, 2009, ... He examined such things as how digital may complement flexo, the level of printing complexity digital can attain, whether digital can improve inventory management, and more. A Q&A session, moderated ...
- Green Bay to Chicago Declared 'Strongest' Converting Corrido
- (News | New Products)
- May 27, 2009, ... plus processes such as rewinding, sheeting, folding, packaging, coating and laminating, flexographic printing, equipment, and associated services for converters. “Anyone who thinks manufacturing is on ...
- Web Exclusive: Flat Die Technologies Emerge as Keys to Innovation in Solar Electric Systems
- (Archive)
- May 13, 2009, ... will be complex, multilayer products whose manufacture will call for high-precision systems for both film extrusion and web coating. Development of such flexible or thin-film solar systems represents ...