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Passion for Printing May Lead to Serious Competitive Battles

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October 31, 2002, ... the “promised land.” Vendors often preach that crossing over from commercial printing to package printing is a logical and easily taken step. It's largely true. Commercial printers have technology advantages ...

GAMIS Funds Proofing and Printing Sales Studies for 2003

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October 20, 2002, GAMIS, the Graphics Arts Marketing Information Service of the Printing Industries of America, Inc. announces it has commissioned three 2003 studies for completion that may provide converters and package ...

Package Printer Steps Up Production 50% with Creo's Brisque Pac

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August 12, 2002, ... designed to make package printers more productive and profitable. "These Brisque Pack features deliver efficient step-and-repeat workflows within a traditional Brisque environment. By building on the platform, ...

SYSCO Chooses Southern Graphic Systems for Package Design

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July 07, 2002, ... the largest foodservice marketer and distributor in North America, according to a company press release. Acquired by Southern Graphics Systems in April 2001, the Package Design Center has a proprietary ...

Creo & KBA Partnership to Continue Digital Printing Development

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July 02, 2002, Creo reports it has signed a multi-year contract with Koenig & Bauer (KBA) for on-press thermal imaging technology. VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA—Creo reports it has signed a multi-year contract with Koenig & ...

Open Up Package Possibilities at Comco/Mark Andy Flexo Open

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May 12, 2002, Comco/Mark Andy's "Flexo Open" will showcase new possibilities in printing, packaging, and converting. Live demonstrations on a variety of techniques. MILFORD, OH, USA—Challenging packaging compositions ...

Agfa Installs 100th XCalibur at Display/Commercial Printer Park Printing

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April 14, 2002, ... Printing's CEO, Bud Koloski. "Agfa took the time to put together an entire package that was right for us and our operation here and made sense for what we do. The Xcalibur VLF system is precisely what we ...

Disc Is the Package

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March 31, 2002, Almost 15 years ago, Univenture's founder, Ross Youngs, invented a way to package and protect CDs. With a Chromas press and a Pillar corona treater, the Almost 15 years ago, Univenture's founder, Ross ...

Printing Best Practices Review: The Digital Impact

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March 21, 2002, What's the best way to do print business in the current and continually growing digital climate? NAPL and PIA may have a few answers for package printers in "Best Business Practices for the Printing Industry." ...

Package-Development Workflow Standard Approved

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February 24, 2002, The American Standards Institute (ANSI) reports it has approved a new technical report, CGATS TR 00-—Graphic Technology - Package Development Workflow: Design Concept through Approved Production File. ...

Difficult Jobs? Combo Printing Can Tighten Screwy Requests

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January 31, 2002, Combination presses can be a tool for converters to help them minimize problems, downtime, and waste for difficult package printing jobs. For the past few years, I've used a screwdriver instead of this ...

Flexo Printing to Outpace GNP in 2002, Says FTA

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December 09, 2001, ... of the North American package-printing market, as well as 24 percent of the worldwide printing and publishing market. Charting the Trends Cisternino notes, "A major trend toward cost reduction throughout ...

A Brief Chemistry Lesson On Printing Ink Pigments

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October 31, 2001, I have received various inquiries about pigments and pigment chemistry. I will try to answer a few of these questions as they relate to package printing I have received various inquiries about pigments ...

Barco's Webcenter Lets Converters Create Central Store of Package Design

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September 20, 2001, Earlier this month, Barco Graphics announced WebCenter, a tool for communicating and presenting product design and specs via the Internet. According to the software manufacturer, the web-based software ...

Single-Source Ink Supplier for Package Printer

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July 31, 2001, ... demand regardless of the environment and conditions the package must endure. A key part of those solutions is the ink. Just ask Packaging Products Corp., Mission, KS. Many converters address cost-effectiveness ...

The Digital Advantage... More Than Just Printing

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October 31, 2000, ... mainstream, in commercial applications and in package printing applications. But digital technology is something that can make other converting processes more efficient and accurate as well. Genesis ...

Converter Preps for Digitally Printed Packages

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July 31, 2000, ... Enso Special Food Packaging Boards, the testing has provided the company with important data as well as an invaluable capability. "Using digital printing, every package can [present] different information. ...

Film offers food packagers green marketing opportunity

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April 30, 1995, ... directed at the rigid plastics industry m states like California, Oregon, Wisconsin and Florida. The laws and implementation dates vary, but packagers in those states are already scrambling to produce ...

As Big as They Come!

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June 06, 2023, ... package printing presses. There on the floor was a massive MTL (Martin Turret Lap) unwind/splicer, capable of handling fiberglass material up to 2mm thick on reels 67” (1.7m) wide and 96” (2.45m) in ...

IDENTCO Displays New Labeling Solutions & Automation Capabilities at Three Electronics Trade Shows

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June 05, 2023, ... and highlighted its comprehensives labels + equipment packages designed for hassle-free integration. Moving forward, IDENTCO is primed to introduce a new automated solution in the wire marking category ...