CC1, Inc.

CC1, Inc. announces its recent expansion to include a new midwest sales office in Woodridge, Ill. “CC1’s customer and product base is expanding rapidly” explains Roger B. Mattila, executive vice president of sales and marketing. “Through establishing this new regional office, we feel we can better support our existing customer base, as well as enhance our sales and product visibility. With CC1’s recent introduction of our Apollo Cut-Off Controls and additional new products, these regional offices will allow us to more quickly reach newsprint, commercial, direct mail and flexographic web printers in targeted areas with up-to-date product information. This is a very exciting

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. and WINNIPEG, Canada—CC1, Inc. of New Hampshire, a leading manufacturer of automatic color-to-color register controls and video web inspection systems for web printers, announced a distribution agreement with Wilcor Canada to market, sell, install, and support CC1’s complete portfolio of products for the web press industry. Wilcor Canada of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada is an established dealer of graphic arts equipment for the web printing industry. Wilcor has more than 10 years of experience dealing with other leading manufacturers such as Tensor Web Presses, Fincor Drives, Quickset, and Meg Tec. CC1 and Wilcor have been talking for months about how to increase CC1’s

Proper web guiding, tension, and register control are basic ingredients needed for good print quality results. PRINT REGISTRATION IS one of the first things packagePRINTING's Excellence Awards judges inspect when assessing the print quality of contest entries. For our expert panel, it's an easy variable to assess, and is used as an initial culling point to "separate the men from the boys." Entries will not contend for a first-place finish if they are not produced with good print registration. This is clearly understood in the industry, but not everyone pays enough attention to some of the web-handling issues that directly impact registration, says Henry

These products and companies were the most sought-after in 2002 by packagePRINTING readers. Top 10: Prepress Equipment 1. Creo—PDF-based packaging workflow Prinergy Powerpack, copydot scanning systems, film imagers, and CtP devices 2. Agfa—Workflow and color management systems including the AgfaScan XY-15 Plus, Sherpa 43 Inkjet system, and Lithostar plates 3. Kodak Polychrome Graphics—Offers Digital and conventional plates, film, and proofing and color technologies including the Kodak Approval XP unit 4. BASF—Offers Nyloflex® and Nyloprint® equipment combinations for processing photopolymer flexo and letterpress plates and sleeves 5. MacDermid—Broad range of sheet, liquid, digital, and water-wash photopolymer plates, platemaking equipment, sleeves,

What products and companies were most sought-after in 2001 by packagePRINTING readers? Here's the scoop on the year's most-wanted technologies, ranked below based on responses to both editorial features and display advertising.*** TOP 10: Prepress Equipment 1. Anderson & Vreeland—Photopolymer plate processing systems, rubber plate molding presses, flexo platemaking materials, digital imaging systems and software 2. DuPont Cyrel—Photopolymer plate and prepress systems, including Cyrel FAST thermal technology 3. BASF—Nyloflex® and nyloprint® equipment combinations for processing flexo and letterpress plates and sleeves 4. MacDermid—Sheet, liquid, digital, and water-wash photopolymer plates, platemaking equipment, sleeves, and plate mounting systems for flexo printing 5. CreoScitex—PDF-based packaging

Experts debate the role of electronic line shafts in register control. By Susan Friedman Earth-shattering advances, break-through innovations? Well, not exactly. Developments on the register control front are a little more low-key at the moment. "Not a lot has happened [recently in register controls], other than improvements in human-machine interface to make life easier," notes Jack Woolley, president of PC Industries. "Refinements will be subtle, small, and ongoing." However—if the focus is expanded to include progressions in press motion control systems, specifically the electronic line shaft and its ultimate implications for register control, the discussion becomes a little more animated. Some suppliers believe electronic

Sophistication across all levels of web inspection technology make it a manageable investment for package printers. By Susan Friedman Why buy a Mercedes when you can reliably, stylishly get from Point A to Point B in a Honda? The infusion of sophistication across all levels of web inspection technology makes this analogy ring true for many package printers' purchasing decisions. "The largest base for video web inspection technology will continue to be simple, inexpensive video systems for general web viewing, while new image-based technology is being developed to bring value-added features to more sophisticated web printing processes," observes Paul Burrows, product application engineer at