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- Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.
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- October 31, 1996, ... equipment. The presses laminate, print up to five colors, apply coatings in register, and slit - all in one pass. Both flexography and gravure printing are available. Water-based inks are from Color Converting ...
- Partnering launches future growth in laminations
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- August 31, 1996, ... Support From the adhesive perspective, Coulter explains, "Currently, most commercial applications require a clear adhesive. In our industry, however, most of the product we sell requires a colorant in ...
- Something new under the sun
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- June 30, 1996, Chamelacolors are long-lasting, light-activated inks that can be applied in-line by conventional printing presses onto any substrate.The decades-long Chamelacolors are long-lasting, light-activated inks ...
- A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.
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- May 31, 1996, ... company's wide web presses, which were better suited for speed and efficiency on higher-volume jobs. With makeready times of up to one hour per color on the presses, Duralam could feasibly spend seven times ...
- Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea
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- March 31, 1996, ... color match was achieved at 10:55 P.M. At 11:21, just 40 days after the press was delivered and a little more than a half-hour before deadline, the first roll came off the press. Within an hour the pressmen ...
- Innovation is a winner in FPA competition
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- March 31, 1996, ... The bags are antifog-treated and flexo-printed in six colors on 1.18-mil oriented polypropylene. Meat Snacks on View American National Can, Chicago, IL, also won three awards, including one for the ...
- Improved paper chemistry provides multiple benefits
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- December 31, 1995, ... and flawlessly print in four or more colors, then don't read on. But, if you sometimes have trouble with dusting, changing printing blankets too often, or fretting over bottle labels that can't stand up ...
- Measurement technique improves metallized PP
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- November 30, 1995, ... of identifying and quantifying a pit defect. In Figure 3A we see an image taken through a standard white light microscope, which shows the presence of a circular defect. Figure 3B shows a color-coded topographical ...
- Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.
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- July 31, 1995, ... New Castle plant on any one of seven six-color flexographic presses from Paper Converting Machine Co. (PCMC) or Windmoeller & Hoelscher (W&H). The 175-in.-wide line typically slits the film down to ...
- Converter combines profit with environmental concern
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- May 31, 1995, ... lines which use ten different substrates. A four-color Comco Commander flexo press featuring an 18-in. processing width was selected. "The decision to go the way we did resulted from Comco having a demo ...
- Reynolds subsidiary in Spain benefits from technology transfer
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- May 31, 1995, ... as a manual converter of paper bags and has grown into one of the first firms in Spain to use four-color flexo printing. Owned by US flex-pack giant, Reynolds Metals Co., the only European converting ...
- Buyer beware when comparing video systems
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- May 31, 1995, ... you could be told that a PCI bus makes a big difference to image quality and color reproduction, when in fact it has nothing to do with color reproduction or image quality. How would you know? In this ...
- Building quality into the web printing process
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- April 30, 1995, ... already been produced. Take color for example: Do you have color standards established for each color on each job? How is on-press color measured and compared against those standards, and how often ...
- Computerized dispensing provides ink management
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- March 31, 1995, ... had broken a new record, creating more than 500 different colors in one 24-hr. period - one new ink every 2.8 min. Better yet, each of those colors was formulated with three quarters recycled material, ...
- State legislative action includes removal of 2 bans: 1994
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- February 28, 1995, ... plastics, including an analysis of potential impacts from mixing biodegradable plastic resins with other plastic resins. * Colorado SB 144, restrictive packaging legislation, was defeated. The proposed ...
- Innovative uses earn honors from film supplier
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- December 31, 1994, ... Richardson Brands Co.'s Hip Hop Hares makes use of a lamination of Mobil Bicor AB film over Mobil Bicor PXS film, using vignette printing to depict Easter with the bright, yet soft colors. According ...
- Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age
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- December 31, 1994, ... capable of imaging up to 43 in. x 80 in. Advanced software modules allow for electronic stripping, editing raster-image-processing files, color separating high-resolution scanned line art, the set up of ...