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- Gravure winners go for gold
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- July 31, 1996, Gravure printing continues to say "quality." Just check out the winners of the Gravure Assn. of America's Golden Cylinders.The Gravure Assn. of America, Gravure printing continues to say "quality." Just check ...
- A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.
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- May 31, 1996, ... lightweight plate and anilox cylinders that can be exchanged in less than one minute per roll. The press runs at 800 fpm and has a 10- to 24-in. repeat length. Rotating on precision bearings, the cylinders ...
- Plate advances bring flexo closer to offset
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- April 30, 1996, ... onto a cylinder with a thick piece of foam tape, what you get is the same or even better compression and the ability to use high levels of impression without the loss of fine image detail," says Rosen. ...
- Gravure gets easier
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- April 30, 1996, ... and similarly high operating costs. Multimillion dollar presses and expensive engraved print cylinders have kept many converters out of the gravure market. Recently, however, suppliers of capital equipment ...
- Brake and clutches improve to meet industry demands.
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- December 31, 1995, ... from both sides or an axial cylinder pressing up against one side, the brake had two discs with the actuating cylinders pushing out against the discs from the inside for greatly improved braking. Both ...
- Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality
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- December 31, 1995, ... panel, rather than by dumping solvent into the ink pail. Inside the M8BO measuring element is a piston/cylinder setup. The piston is raised up by an air lifting mechanism, drawing a sample of the ink to ...
- Die-cutting developments continue unabated.
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- September 30, 1995, ... standby" woodbacked steel rule die continues to be improved through research and development. One example: It is common today to find computer-guided laser cutting of the slot in the plywood cylinder int ...
- Doctor blades are the right Rx for gravure
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- September 30, 1995, ... a spring load tension while maintaining a high contact angle. These qualities allow the printer and the converter to wipe the cylinder cleanly with a light spring load and preserve the cylinder while improving ...
- Retrofit brings older sheeters back to life.
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- August 31, 1995, ... (single rotary) knives. Short sheet runnability - The minimum and maximum sheeted length for a fixed-bed sheeter is a function of the knife cylinder diameter. Although the maximum practical range is ...
- Czech converter pursues new free-market direction
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- August 31, 1995, ... laminators. All inks are purchased from Germany, and varnishes are produced internally. Rotogravure cylinders are etched in-house. Kovohute's product mix consists exclusively of converted aluminum foil ...
- Mead expands in-house capabilities with sheeter
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- July 31, 1995, ... The cutting head contains a pair of rotary knife cylinders that, when rotated, produce a true scissor cut across the web. In addition, a cyclic mechanism controls the rotation of the cylinders so that ...
- Consortium proves quality growth of flexo printing
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- April 30, 1995, ... Flexographic printing has recently taken on a new dimension with the introduction of photopolymer plates, eight-color central impression cylinder presses, aqueous-based inks, doctor blade metering systems ...
- Computerized dispensing provides ink management
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- March 31, 1995, ... order are becoming more elaborate, which means more cylinders and more inks for each run," he said. "Our four-color libraries comprise 12,000 colors supporting about 2,000 designs." Transprint prints ...
- Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.
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- February 28, 1995, ... cylinders." A disadvantage of embossing onto paper is that it will shrink. "Although the shrinking of the hologram on the paper could be potentially devastating, paper seems to be consistent in shrinkage, ...
- Quality, waste get action from suppliers of sheeters.
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- January 31, 1995, ... board and said there's more activity for board than paper in this area. "With the two knife cylinders coming together and making the cut, the cutting action itself offers better quality work. It's especially ...
- Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age
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- December 31, 1994, ... network featuring direct-to-gravure control of cylinder engravers. It's designed to reduce the digital cylinder-imaging processing bottleneck in the gravure process and reduce production costs and turnaround ...
- German company develops recovery concept for plastics
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- December 31, 1994, ... are preset off the machine. The perforating tool is interchangeable like the plate cylinder in a flexographic printing press. The perforating blades are preset so it isn't necessary to make further adjustments ...