Sticking to Business

Automatic or manual quality

For the quality splices that characterize a saleable roll, package printers can turn to both equipment advances and their operator's own two hands.

Chris Plude, engineering manager at Keene Technology Inc., South Beloit, IL, emphasizes automation. "Automatic zero-speed splicing equipment improves the alignment of the webs being spliced, and does not disturb the natural path of the web," he says.