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- Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper
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- September 30, 2000, ... has installed a standard block-bottom paper bag machine from H.G. Weber, which Wilson-North says required minimum modification to run the new PaperFeel material. Three stainless steel rollers have been ...
- More New Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... cleaner contains only 2.2% VOCs and has a "zero" flammability rating. Cleans anilox rollers, doctor blades, metering rollers, UV ink pans, sidewalls, and press frames. Gantry-Style Palletizer Maximizes ...
- Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation
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- June 30, 2000, ... by repeat runs. "We put everything on this press that is available in technology today to allow us to run as thin a film as possible, including very low-inertia rollers and driven idler rollers so there' ...
- Release Papers: New Trends Are Driving the Market
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- May 31, 2000, ... the many paper rollers in these complicated machines. The resurgence of demand for machine-finished is tied to the creation of "sandwiches" that can be imaged in ink jet, laser, electrostatic, or thermal ...
- More Laminating Diversity Equals More Success
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- May 31, 2000, ... the scrim substrate is being applied, a film is put under it to keep it from bleeding off onto other rollers. If it's a thin scrim, sometimes it will do this. But the film keeps that from happening." ...
- Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application
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- April 30, 2000, ... microcontrollers for air-actuated brakes can turn off some of the air actuators in the brake as the roll diameter decreases, providing more performance flexibility in web processing applications. In some ...
- Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds
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- March 31, 2000, ... and manual machine adjustment (causing variable accuracy, excessive downtime, waste materials, and astronomical maintenance costs) are a thing of the past. I/O modules, programmable logic controllers ...
- Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority
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- January 31, 2000, ... rollers in there for our lamination. It's got plenty of pressure to open and close." The Model 835 is capable of slitting widths of 3-54 in. The maximum core length on the unwind is 62 in., and maximum ...
- Converting Coverage Grows at Graphics of the Americas
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- December 31, 1999, ... Lluis Rebled Key Points for Choosing Anilox Rollers, by Lluis Rebled The Multicolor Makeready, by Frank Gualtieri Lightning Makeready on Lithographic Presses, by Ken Rizzo Saturday, February 5, Checking ...
- Narrow web adapts to multiple applications
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- November 30, 1998, ... need for remote controls. And, for some stations, narrow widths allow for the use of cantilevered quick-change-out rollers that make maintenance and threading much easier than on their wide web cousins. ...
- Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem
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- March 31, 1998, ... "Film Can generate static electricity in several ways," says Beres. "We manufacture long lengths of film that have to be guided in a number of different directions by many rollers. Every time the film ...
- Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.
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- November 30, 1996, ... be flashed off in order to achieve a dry ink film." Normally, ink should be between 80 and 85 deg F as it enters the vibrator roller, Zborovsky explains. The temperature of the chill rollers is chosen ...
- Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.
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- November 30, 1996, ... attend to other duties instead of having to manually record information. The drive system uses 11 Eurotherm Model 590 DC drive controllers linked by a fiber optic network that replaced traditional hard ...
- Bagmaking machines adapt to conquer new markets.
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- July 31, 1996, ... big evolution has been in electronics," he says. "You can do so much these days with programmable logic controllers, whereas in the past you had a million and one fussy little 'click-clack' relays." To ...
- Something new under the sun
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- June 30, 1996, ... each different press operation. "If you're going to run it in offset, you'll get a step-by-step guideline explaining what you're going to have to do to your ink rollers, what kind of chemistry to use, how ...
- Handling hazardous materials: are you up to date?
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- May 31, 1996, ... preparations for a press or laminator. Male employees wearing dangling neckties frequently bent next to the nip rollers of an extruder that was running at 500 fpm. Other instances that come to mind include ...
- New measurement technology improves web control.
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- January 31, 1996, ... or directly on the roll shaft end. The signals from the transducers are enhanced in various ways by the central processing electronics, which, in turn, provide system output signals to tension controllers ...
- Brake and clutches improve to meet industry demands.
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- December 31, 1995, ... or in any combination, and air pressure can be varied from piston to piston as well." About 10 to 12 years ago all electro-pneumatic controllers used strain gauge transducers (transducers sense web ...
- Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality
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- December 31, 1995, ... and a measuring cycle that can be observed by the operator. The installation consists of eight MP90 controllers and M8BO measuring elements mounted on 5- or 10-gal ink containers. (Lally Pak uses solvent-based ...
- Examining trends in drives and motors
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- December 31, 1995, ... memory and faster processing capability, software that was specific to the needs of converters could be produced. "We put mathematical models inside the controllers that allow you to precisely control torque ...