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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
Static has a knack for wreaking havoc on even basic printing applications. Here, suppliers offer a range of remedies. by Kate Tomlinson, Assistant Editor WHAT'S YOUR WORST static nightmare? Several package printers recently shared theirs with packagePRINTING. They follow below, along with static control suppliers' strategies for remedying the issues at hand. Static Attack #1: Is it slowing you down? Problem: "We found that especially while working with sheeted polystyrene or clear BOPP, we were having a lot of trouble stacking and jogging the product as it came off the press. Due to all the static these materials hold, we were only
by Susan Friedman Can the experience of a 30-year-old, 185-employee, short-run heat-set litho publication printer hold static control lessons for package printers? Quite likely. For United Litho, the stage for a static solution was set when a move from Falls Church, VA, to a new 70,000 sq. ft. building in Ashburn, VA, in March 1997 coincided with the purchase of two new Heidelberg/Harris M130 offset presses. "The M130 was a brand new design in 1997," recalls Press and Finishing Manager Tom Naquin. He estimates United Litho bought the seventh or eighth press off the production line, and start-up proved to be a bit
