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- Taiyo Kikai Presses Run with Martin Equipment at China Show
- (News | New Products)
- January 11, 2012, ... the recently concluded All in Print China show in Beijing saw new Taiyo presses running continuously with Martin Automatic splicers and rewinds. A Taiyo central-impression cylinder letterpress featured ...
- Schober’s Embossing System Protects and Enhances Packages
- (Embossing)
- January 05, 2012, The VHFA 2650 rotary embossing and hologram technology system helps fight product counterfeiting and piracy while enhancing the look of the package FAIRFIELD, OH | Schober introduces the VHFA 2650 ...
- Web Lines | A Rant from Tim Walker
- (Web Handling)
- December 04, 2011, ... pounds per width, maybe kilograms or newtons). With our requests, you made some calculations to figure motor or clutch size and air cylinder diameters and leverages. It was all engineered with a force ...
- In-Line-Produced Embossed Hologram Lauded with IHMA Award
- (News | New Products)
- November 16, 2011, ... then immediately molds the holographic surface-relief pattern in to this lacquer from a master mounted on to a cylinder. Reportedly, a notable aspect of the invention is that the UV light source is mounted ...
- Inspection: Lighting the Way
- (Controls)
- August 21, 2011, ... the operator to cylinder setup errors. With enforcement of stringent health and safety regulations and packages in multiple languages and alphabets, an operator is ill-advised to check quality manually. ...
- Sleeve Press for Coastal Labels
- (Flexography)
- July 31, 2011, ... both print and anilox cylinders and working with chambered doctor blades. Managing director Marius Sullwald, says, “Within two hours we were running our first print job. The EDM 200 provides Coastal Labels ...
- Mount Flexo Plates for Better Print Quality
- (Label/Tape)
- July 31, 2011, Cushion-Mount Plus Tapes with Easy Mount Adhesive are designed for mounting flexo print plates to cylinders or sleeves. Foam mounting tapes are said to Cushion-Mount Plus Tapes with Easy Mount Adhesive ...
- New Offset Printing Press Expands Sales at Hammer Packaging
- (Drying)
- July 19, 2011, ... in handling multiple film stocks, including 2 mil clear and 1.2--3.2 mil white, due to an innovative gripper system and high-performance cylinder bearings native to Heidelberg’s Speedmaster XL 105 technology ...
- Web Lines: Is Wound Roll Pressure Greater Than Tire Pressure?
- (Tension)
- June 30, 2011, ... When you stretch a rubber band around something, it creates tension proportional to how much the band is elongated beyond its untensioned length (a.k.a. strain). The pressure under a rubber band on a cylinder ...
- Fiber's Frien
- (Label/Tape)
- June 15, 2011, ... Cylinder Offset) web press. The RB Dwyer Group, Melville, NY, helped Barn Dad Innovation Nutrition, a div. of Angle Foods, launch its Ultra Fiber DX product with a shrink-sleeve label printed on an RDP ...
- FTA Gets Flexo Engines Started at Forum/Info*Flex
- (Flexography)
- May 31, 2011, ... a thinner plate means changing to a larger diameter sleeve or cylinder to compensate for the difference. In either case, the transition will be gradual. Start with a common repeat for testing, and convert ...
- Roll-Sleeve Film: Helping Shape Brand Identity
- (Label/Tape)
- May 10, 2011, ... using a vacuum method. When the film comes into contact with the spindle, or cylinder, the resulting vacuum holds it to the surface for cutting and seaming. A laser then seals the seam into place, readying ...
- FTA Gets Flexo Engines Started at Forum/Info*Flex
- (Flexography)
- May 03, 2011, ... to a thinner plate means changing to a larger diameter sleeve or cylinder to compensate for the difference. In either case, the transition will be gradual. Start with a common repeat for testing, and convert ...
- Do You Want Nips with That? Part 2
- (Winding Unwinding Rewinding)
- April 30, 2011, ... ratio of high-to-low tension across a wrapped cylinder. To calculate the maximum ratio of any roller, raise Euler's number, e (2.7183), to the power of COF times the wrap angle in radians. For example, ...
- BEST OF SHOW
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2011, ... The attractive label features nine colors printed on a lamination of polyethylene/foil/polyethylene terephthalate (PET) using Rotoflex inks on a Ten press with indirect laser-engraved cylinders. Judges ...
- Hot, Hot, Hot!
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2011, ... Red Hot Family Pack in the Heat Shrinkable-Less Than 12% category. Nine colors are printed on PET glycol using Sun Chemical inks on a Chesnut press with cylinder engraving by Alliance Graphics. Th ...
- Silver Really Shines
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2011, ... 650 press. Southern Graphic Systems engraved the cylinders. Judges like the extremely tight print, emboss, and cut-to-fold register. Crisp print reproduction — specifically the full coverage metallized ...
- RB Dwyer Group Shrink Label Helps Launch Ultra Fiber DX
- (Label/Tape News)
- April 06, 2011, The RB Dwyer Group helps Barn Dad Innovation Nutrition, a div. of Angle Foods, launch its newest product, Ultra Fiber DX, with a shrink sleeve label printed on its IVCO (Infinitely Variable Cylinder Offset) ...
- Parfait Perfection
- (Label/Tape)
- April 04, 2011, Using an Infinitely Variable Cylinder Web Offset Press (IVCO) from RDP Marathon, The R.B. Dwyer Group, Anaheim, CA, is printing gravure-quality shrink labels for B.C. Bundt's “Walk-Away Parfaits” with zero ...
- Web Lines: Limitations of Vacuum Pull Rollers
- (Web Handling)
- February 28, 2011, ... this will add to the complexity and cost of the system, especially if you need to run varied web widths. VPR holes may mark your web or coating | Some VPRs are simply perforated cylinders with large holes ...