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- New Technology Guides Web
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- September 29, 2005, ... area in web guiding where we will see absolute, recognizable change is communication. Historically, you got a web guide with a controller, you hooked it up to electricity, and they talked to each other. ...
- A Menu for Thickness Control
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- August 30, 2005, Some applications require a heavy coating weight of an adhesive, coating, or primer, but others might require a lower coating weight. The choice depends on the particular adhesive, coating, or primer in ...
- The Converting Relay Race: Part II
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- August 30, 2005, Our rolls are loaded, spliced, and ready to run. To complete the unwinding relay, we need to finish strong with our plan for web alignment and tension control. Web Lines We are halfway through our roll-to-roll ...
- The Terminology of Testing
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- July 30, 2005, ... probably is only two decimal places. In the case of the temperature of a nip roller, the number of significant figures probably is only one decimal place. Finally, let us mention calibration briefly. ...
- Heat Transfer Gets More Precise
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- June 29, 2005, Talking to suppliers of heat transfer rolls is a little like listening to the weatherman. They both talk about temperatures quite a lot, but there is one big difference: When these suppliers talk about ...
- Drawing Conclusions: Part II
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- May 30, 2005, ... I set out a scenario where I asked you to predict the web’s strain in a draw zone. I eventually gave out three data points: the web speed at roller #1, the web speed at roller #2, and the strain of ...
- Truth or Myth?
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- May 30, 2005, ... believe they maintain the slide angle within ±2 deg. Myth. We tested more than 25 samples of printed beverage board under environmentally controlled conditions. We determined the measurement capability ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
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- April 29, 2005, ... path methods employed with razor slitting are a wrapped, supported web over a grooved anvil roller and an unsupported web with the blade bursting through the material. Choice of blade material and employment ...
- Mouse Roars BUY ME!
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- March 30, 2005, ... substrate to Crown Roll Leaf, Paterson, NJ, for embossing and metallizing. Dazzling Pearly Whites Communicating the whitening capabilities of Oral-B/Rembrandt Whitening Pen from Gillette, South Boston, ...
- Giving JDF Content a Great Send-off
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- March 30, 2005, ... (JMF). JMF allows production workflow hardware and software systems in a JDF workflow to communicate with administrative components and system controllers. It helps to swap dynamic data in real time, such ...
- Brave New Slitting World
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- February 27, 2005, ... that roll once it’s slit?’" He says some of the most significant changes in slitting are in the automation of material handling. "We’re seeing a lot more customers who don’t want their operators to actually ...
- Technology - The Great Equalizer
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- February 27, 2005, ... both domestically and internationally. To remain competitive, most already have invested in waste-reducing technologies such as fast job changeover capabilities and automatic roll changing and splicing ...
- Web Tension 101
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2004, ... with all machine idler rolls and driven rolls to ensure proper web handling and control. The web handling principle states a web will seek to align itself perpendicular to an idler or driven roll. This ...
- The Harms of Harmony
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- November 29, 2004, ... are usually a bigger problem than tension variations. For roll coating methods, a roller’s speed is a key variable to control coating thickness. For extrusion coating, precision in coating flow and web ...
- Mechanics of Tension Control, Part II
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- November 29, 2004, ... refer to the term "drive." This term is being used as a purely generic term to describe a mechanical device that delivers torque to a roll of material or driven roll(s) in a converting machine. This device ...
- Karlville and Martin Automatic Partner to Provide Higher Productivity on 300D Seamer
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- October 03, 2004, ... 300D high-speed, non-stop seamer. "Shown for the first time at Labelexpo 2004," states a release about the OEMs' alliance, "the new 300D, [featuring a Martin Automatic roll-changing system], is a major ste ...
- Discoloration Resistant Polyolefin Films
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- September 29, 2004, ... Melt flow rate YI color data Gas fade aging Oven aging Resistance to fluorescent lighting. Conclusions Melt flow rates can be controlled by either “phenol” or “phenol free” stabilization systems ...
- Agfa's :Sublima XM Screening for Flexo Is Boon for Maryland Prepress Sho
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- August 10, 2004, ... 188, and 212 lpi without changing anilox rolls, helping create the quality, eye-popping packaging materials their customers demand," adds the manufacturer. Explains Mark/Trèce corporate product manager ...
- Battenfeld Gloucester Says MDO Provides Enhancements to PE; OEM Spotlights K Show Offerings
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- July 05, 2004, ... with a blown film line, has draw ratios of 3:1 and 4:1. Rather than being wound after extrusion, film is fed into the MDO unit, pre-heated, and run through drawing rolls for orientation. The set of rollers ...
- Extreme Makeovers
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- June 30, 2004, ... an acetate window machine; a roll coater; and the entire shipping department. They also added additional automatic transfer conveyors. “This plant grew, and when we grew, we just put a machine where ...