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What's New in Narrow We

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January 31, 2001, ...  A 24-in. hot melt coating/laminating system features both extrusion slot die coating and fiberizing spray coating capabilities. Said to provide a versatile lab or production system, it can be used to ...

Forging Ahead into the Digital Printing Frontier

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January 31, 2001, ... end of things. "My dad had confidence in me. He's not an office person or into paperwork. He's a mechanical person. He always ran the plants wherever he was; that's what he did. And he gave me a shot, although ...

Reporter Clips

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December 31, 2000, ... press can perform multicolor letterpress, silk screening, flexographic printing, and rotary hot stamping plus UV flexo and UV screen printing. All folding and printing operations are in-line. It can apply ...

What's New in Narrow We

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December 30, 2000, ... and optimum accessibility. Offers offset, flexo, screen, and hot foil stamping, in line and in any configuration. Designed for a working width of 20.5 in. Print Bar Codes at High Speeds Sato America ...

Materials

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November 30, 2000, ... rotary engraved dies and to allow a wider range of running speeds compared to those of traditional hot stamping. Resin Is Designed for High-Speed Extrusion Laminations Equistar Chemicals LP, Houston, ...

Polyester Film Sourcing: Tips to Improve the Bottom Line

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November 30, 2000, ... i.e., 0% TD shrinkage at 150 deg C for 30 min. This zero TD shrinkage is marketed in the hot stamping industry, but shrinkage in the MD can increase to 0.5%. Shrink is a factor that should be considered ...

Reporter Clips

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October 31, 2000, ... customers many options, including variable thickness, appearance similar to tin, and gold hot-stamping on the cap's skirt and top. A personalized finish is ensured by Sofacap's printing capabilities. ...

Digital Products for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ... three direct digital mask-removal processes, including removal from photo- polymer, enabling plate processing for printing and embossing forms; removal from metal, enabling multilayer, high-resolution ...

Printing/Converting Show Bursting at the Seams

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August 31, 2000, ... at this year's event. Visitors can register for the show, enroll for seminars, and make hotel reservations on-line at gasc.org. The web site offers an "Attendee Assistant" feature that provides a keyword ...

Hologram in 3-D Makes Postage Stamp a Keeper

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August 31, 2000, ... guide, then hired an animal trainer, built a flight cage, and photographed the dove in flight. Recording the flight was essential, as the image in a stereogram must replicate reality. The photographs then ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... reliable supply of consistent, high-quality polymers for difficult applications. Co. notes that both have outstanding hot tack and heat seal properties and consistent low gel performance, and they will ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

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August 30, 2000, ... hot foil stamping, rotary silk screen, and letterpress. Notes Magel, "We're kind of a supermarket for labels. End-users can get just about anything they want from us." In addition to a three-color ...

Folder/Gluer Broadens Markets for Contract Converter

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March 30, 2000, ... the laminating material, exposing the pocket folder or blank box. This feature, notes Amar, allows them to use conventional liquid glue or hot melt directly onto the blank and not the laminate. "We asked ...

Cartonmarker Adds Flexo to Give Customers a Choice

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February 29, 2000, ... and the tools to do soft proofing." In addition to die-cutting, in-line operations include sheeting, ultraviolet coating, blister coating, hot stamping, stripping, and backside printing. Kempsmith manufactured ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ... in addition to multiple print stations, you can add stations for laminating, hot foil stamping, rotary die-cutting, flatbed die-cutting, sheeting, perforating, or ink jet printing. Practically anything ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

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August 31, 1996, ... was purchased by Transfer Print Foils of East Brunswick, NJ, a company that makes innovative holograms and hot stamping foils and has patents on a transfer metallizing process. About the same time the ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, ... that can be applied in-line by conventional printing presses onto any substrate. The decades-long quest to perfect light-sensitive or photochromatic ink for conventional printing methods has finally ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, ... embossing machine and an Onda hot stamping press. The company has more than 1,000 dies in its die library, most of them from Rotometrics. While "partnering" is an industry buzzword today, Ed Decker practiced ...

Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.

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February 28, 1995, ...  "Holographic reproduction in polyester gives some of the best quality available, but it isn't converter friendly due to its difficulty in some printing process and because of static electricity." Ho ...

French plastic bag imports continue to outpace exports.

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January 31, 1995, ... mpm, and the maximum weight of paper being handled is 280 gsm. Maximum trim width is 100 mm per station. * 1 major supplier of hot-stamping foil has upgraded its equipment to handle the thin, sensitive ...