Keeping It in Line

Automatically adjusting edge detectors and rolls designed to mitigate web-troubling deflection, to name just a couple, make an operator's job that much easier. But even with the most advanced technology available, do all printers and converters need top-of-the-line web handling equipment?

"If you define top-of-the-line equipment as expensive or loaded with superfluous features—bells and whistles for which most converters have absolutely no need—the answer would be no. But, if you define top-of-the-line equipment with words like simplicity, dependability, versatility, and efficiency, the answer would be a resounding yes," said Robert Duffy, president of Airtech Converting Equipment.