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Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... precisely where they occur. The audit revealed the illumination lamps had aged and the exposure times on the platemaking unit were excessive, resulting in a dot growth of 8%-13% from film to plate.  ...

Digital Flexo Plates: From Pioneers to End-Users

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... platemaking process.” Adds Dan Raasch, VP of sales and business development for Precision, “Our customers are seeing a variety of advantages by using our digital plates. The most impressive difference ...

FFTA Campaigns for Flexo

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May 31, 2002, ... cartons, and towel and napkin segments. Other sessions covered prepress, platemaking, and FIRST specifications. In the Flexographic Quality Consortium session, Bancroft Bag's graphics manager, Ruth Buckley ...

P-S Labels Every Which Way

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... Logotech can produce on its Gallus and Xeikon units. More Quality Controls Logotech also operates an off-line hot stamp press and a Creo platemaking system that allows it to control prepress quality ...

Dive in the Ipex "SEE" of Technolog

(News | New Products)

April 11, 2002, ... in the input tray so it will be loaded automatically when the first plate is imaged and ejected. Announcing ApogeeX In addition to Agfa's plate and platemaking products featured at Ipex, the co. says ...

Printing Private Labels

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... including a CreoScitex digital platemaking system. He says the nature of the company's work — laying out and printing dozens of images on a single sheet — makes digital processing a virtual requirement ...

Disc Is the Package

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ...  to contact them.” Univenture's Columbus plant also has extensive prepress capabilities. Reports Kuhn, “We have a full art department, with platemaking, which has been up and running for about a year-and-a-hal ...

MAN Roland, Agfa, and Others Give Global View of Package Printing

(News | New Products)

March 21, 2002, MAN Roland says more than 1,000 packaging printers from all over the world converged at its graphic center in Offenbach, Germany, in late January. According to the OEM, Agfa and Artwork Systems were on ...

Cost-Competitive Digital Quality: Learn How at FREE Flexo Forum

(News | New Products)

March 13, 2002, Flexo professionals, if you want to learn how to get digital quality at conventional prices, the upcoming free "New Technology for Flexography" conference is something you'll want to check out. DES PLAINES, ...

Sun Chemical Div. Gets Gigasetter by Barco

(News | New Products)

February 07, 2002, NORTHLAKE, IL -- Sun Chemical Ink and and Barco Graphics announce the purchase of Barco Gigasetter --the largest format imagesetter available and reportedly

Envelopes Extraordinaire

(Office Products)

January 30, 2002, ... problems, the company (still in the midst of its flexo-printing quest) took the CTP (computer-to-plate) step by purchasing Barco's CDI Compact Twinbeam digital flexo imager for digital platemaking. In addition, ...

Russian Flex-Pack Markets Holds Potential

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2002, ... platemaking technology. Exporting to Russia, Azerbajan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, Uniflex produces 500,000 m (squared) of p-s labels and more than 1,500,000 kg of flexible packaging. Nestle is among its ...

Agfa Xcalibur: Jewel in Converter's Crow

(News | New Products)

December 19, 2001, ... staging and loading solution that makes platemaking easier, even for the largest plates, while ensuring fast, accurate plate registration. "Everything just looks better," he adds. Superior Lithographics ...

Image This! Among the Acronyms, Flexo Finds Its Fit

(Magazine)

October 30, 2001, ... flexography in Hall 19. For more Ipex information, visit ipex.org. Sleeve It to CTP Platemaking is at the heart of flexo quality, and Martin White (an apprenticed printer in his former life) has definite ...

On the Move

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... High School, Charlotte, NC, received multiple awards in the 2001 Flexography Skills Competition. Ford and Osborne, first-year flexography students, won third-place prizes in flexo platemaking, flexo prepress, ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2001, ... service team, consisting of a specialist in each area of corrugated, printing, prepress, platemaking, and inks, will assist customers that need guidance running a new grade, troubleshooting through a production ...

Delivering Digital: CTP Carries Flexo Printing to Competitive Quality

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... variable-information printing not only a reality but increasingly commonplace. (See Product Focus, July 2001, p. 88: “Digital Printing at Your Service: Keeping Customers Happy.”) But it's digital platemaking ...

DIGITAL SOLUTIONS NEWS

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April 30, 2001, ... system was the next logical step toward increasing our efficiency and productivity.” Shown for the first time at Drupa, the Xcalibur, says Agfa, is an innovative thermal platemaking system that combines ...

Sheet-Fed Label Converter to Keep Winning Ways

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... in prepress and typically relies on outside vendors to meet much of its film and platemaking needs. However, he hopes to have the company running computer-to-plate technologies in less than two years. ...

Digital Solutions Products

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... 2630 is said to enhance quality of flexo printing by eliminating the film contact during platemaking. Features the same 830nm laser thermal imaging and external drum technology as mfr.'s previous platesetters ...