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- Automation and Options Spell Opportunity for Converters
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2003, ... predicts Boyles. “The introduction of lasers in web processing, especially in films, will be a major trend. These laser systems can be incorporated into the slitter or roll-to-roll rewinder. Presently ...
- Differential Rewinding: Part Three
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2002, ... only, will ensure you get the right tension or know when you don't. If you can't afford to measure tension, at least know the tension you can get by calibrating your system with a spring scale. Roll-to-Roll ...
- Differential Rewinding: Part Two
- (Archive)
- November 30, 2002, ... cannot handle extremely narrow widths or tight roll-to-roll spacing. Understanding the advantages of climbing the differential shaft evolutionary designs will help you find the right design for your ...
- Energy-Curable Inks
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2002, ... curing. Some EB presses print roll-to-roll, while others include additional processing, such as die-cutting, folding, and window patching. Often, UV web presses that print such end-use products as cereal ...
- Differential Rewinding: Part One
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2002, ... at once. Losing nine of the rolls is not an option. The simplest approach is to wind ten rolls abutted side by side on a single shaft. Winding rolls on a common shaft without roll-to-roll separation ...
- Strand Tracking Problems on Your Slitter/Rewinder
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2002, ... to wander. Slackness from winding accumulation Lock bar winding is sensitive to roll-to-roll diameter variations. Without differential winding, where winding rolls can turn at different rotational ...
- Mapping Your Way to Better Tension Control
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2002, ... roller but also may use a vacuum box or web sag sensor. Start at the beginning. For roll-to-roll processes, start at the unwind. If the web line starts with a film, paper, or nonwoven maker, then start ...
- Reporter Clips
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2002, ... factories on five different continents. TLMI Inspires Members NAPLES, FL, USA—Having enjoyed the benefits of double-digit growth in the roll-to-roll tag and label business in the 1980s and '90s, converters ...
- Printing Private Labels
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2002, ... new and unique things in the display and roll-to-roll operations might do little or no business in the sheet-fed arena, and that's fine with us. We don't do just one thing, and that makes us unique and stronger ...
- TLMI Inspires Members to Roll On
- (News | New Products)
- March 10, 2002, Having enjoyed the benefits of double-digit growth in the roll-to-roll tag and label business in the 1980s and ’90s, converters are now facing the realities of single-digit growth in the new millennium. ...
- Metallizer Makes a Winning Wager
- (Unprinted Rolls)
- February 28, 2002, ... roll-to-roll inspection and slitting as required.” Connections Keep Trouble Away Along with the specially designed building and top-line machinery, the Addison facility also has an electronic kiosk ...
- The Buck Stops
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2002, ... a narrow web press are doing so roll-to-roll and die-cutting off-line.” Positive Aspects The development of multi-substrate flexo has created an alternative, White says. Now, cartonboards can be produced ...
- Coating and Laminating Special Report
- (Archive)
- February 28, 2002, ... consumables, which are printed on a quality thin sleeving board by any of the standard roll-to-roll printing processes, and in-line overlaminated or ultraviolet-varnished to give a high-gloss, matte, textured, ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2001, ... press runs single pass full process color and additional spot color printing on a single side, continuous feed, roll-to-roll configuration. Handles light fast UV curing inks and substrates such as coated ...
- Polymers/Laminations/Adhesives/Coatings/Extrusions
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2001, ... can form a base line reference for the process. The shift reports provide roll-to-roll average thickness and sigma variations. Comparing these data between product runs, shifts, days, seasons, etc., can ...
- Sheet Fed Lithography: Hammer Lithographic
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2001, ... dozens of labels, can be far more cost-effective and generate less waste than roll-to-roll converting. There are, however, inherent difficulties in converting thin films in a sheet form. “Can you ...
- How One Converter Mastered Sheet-Fed Films
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2001, ... new line-up of Mitsubishi presses, with each sheet containing literally dozens of labels, can be far more cost-effective and generate less waste than roll-to-roll converting. There are, however, inherent ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2001, ... packaging features a four-roll coating head with sleeved transfer roll for fast job changeover and roll-to-roll or continuous operation. All drive points are tension-regulated by AC vector drives. A "liquid ...
- Pilot Coating Line Aids Both R&D and Production
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2000, ... The company, a div. of Material Sciences Corp., was founded in 1977 as a converter of roll-to-roll sputter metallized coatings. Using this exacting technology, metals are broken into atomic-sized particles ...
- What's New in Narrow We
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2000, ... with any form of roll-to-roll label printing, including flexo, offset, silk screen, or thermal transfer. Uses what co. calls inexpensive flatbed rule die-cutters. In-line slitters and a sheeter are available. ...