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James R. Niesen Inducted into BIA Hall of Fame

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... James R. Niesen, former executive director of the Binding Industries Association (BIA), is the inaugural inductee into the BIA Hall of Fame. Jim was inducted during the 2008 BIA Mid Management Conference in Schaumburg, IL. Under his leadership, the BIA expanded its membership worldwide, ...

RISO Donates Digital Inkjet Press

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... RISO, Inc. has donated its HC5500R Digital Inkjet Press with a ComColorExpress print controller to GATF, which will be housed in the Center for Digital Printing Excellence (CDPE). It is part of the CDPE plan to have a tiered selection of digital technologies (toner vs. inkjet) along with a ...

Lab Testing for Standards Conformance and Conflict Resolution

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The current economic climate has further emphasized the need for continual process improvement to maximize profitability. This can be achieved in many different ways, including quality control, manufacturing error reduction, improved process predictability, and lean approaches to name but a few ....

ISO 2846 Ink Conformance Testing

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... In an effort to promote consistency and quality in the industry, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) developed the ISO 2846 conformance standard for color and transparency of process printing inks. PIA/GATF staff members were integral in developing this ISO standard, and the ...

PIA/GATF Lab Testing Services

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Paper Tests * Absortivity * Ash Content * Basis Weight * Brightness * Burst Strength * Caliper * CIE Whiteness * Color * Curl * Dry Dusting * Folding Endurance * Gloss * Internal Tearing ...

Consumables Testing for Quality Control and Conflict Resolution

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Using a consistent portfolio of consumables is the best way to maintain quality control. The problem arises if a change in consumables is necessary because an existing product becomes unavailable, there is an economic break with a new product, increased productivity is required or else there is ...

PIA/GATF Laboratory Facilities Improved With New Inkometers

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The investment in the latest equipment and technology underscores PIA/GATF's commitment to providing essential research techniques to the membership of PIA/GATF. "I'm thrilled to report that our ability to serve members in the technical arena just improved with the acquisition of two new ...

The Sheetfed Ink Report

Jun 01, 2008; Savastano, David ... In recent years, the sheetfed printing market has undergone a major transformation as consolidation and digital technologies have impacted sheetfed printers. For sheetfed ink manufacturers who are also facing higher raw material, operational and transportation costs, as well as increased ...

Ink and the X Factor

Jun 01, 2008; Ferguson, Ken ... Printers look to ink manufacturers for high-quality products and the ability to withstand and adjust to the multitude of variables or X factors. Ink formulations today must be flexible, stable, fast drying on press, have excellent water balance, and yet not emulsify too much. The key to ...

Inks and Solvents: Sustainable or Not?

Jun 01, 2008; Duncan, Don P ... By now, most people are familiar with a definition of su stain ability coming from the U.N. Brundtland Commission in 1987: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." This is ...

Optimizing Performance of Offset Printing Blankets

Jun 01, 2008; Rizzo, Kenneth ... The X inputs for the offset printing process have been discussed in earlier GATFWorld articles. They include fountain solution and the offset press's ink and dampening rollers. The third part of the offset print process is the offset printing blanket and plate-toblanket-to-substrate print ...

Offset Press Rollers: Characteristics, Control, and Maintenance

Jun 01, 2008; Rizzo, Kenneth ... A new press roller surface is not smooth or bumpy, but is actually a fibrous-type surface. The depths from the peaks to the valleys of this fibrous surface can be as much as 500 microns. (See Figure 1.) The roller surface peaks actually move individually when the roller makes contact ...

Printing Magic with Lenticular

Jun 01, 2008; Johnson, Barry ... Somewhere out there, a shopper is twisting a DVD case back and forth, transfixed by the image on it. A moviegoer shifts from side to side, engrossed in an intriguing movie poster. At a college football game, a fan studiously twirls a beverage cup around and around. It happens every day; in fact, ...

Driving More of Your Profit Through Postpress Solutions

Jun 01, 2008; Maurer, Dan; Niehueser, Joe; Calav, Steven ... In challenging economic times, making the most of all your assets, retaining customers, and extracting more share of the customer's wallet is essential to gaining an advantage on your competition. With tighter cash flows, capital investments need to be given even more scrutiny on their realizing ...

Ensuring That "100% Quality" Finish

Jun 01, 2008; Raney, Chris ... With more and more print customers, particularly those in the packaging field, demanding 100% quality, postpress is becoming the gatekeeper for the quality of every process upstream. One of my colleagues in England recently told me an interesting story. He is a product specialist for ...

By the Book: Guidelines for Assuring Quality

Jun 01, 2008; Kaeli, Jim ... Whether it is a piece of furniture, a luxury automobile, or a finely crafted perfect-bound book, quality is obvious from the very first glance. And when it comes to postpress and book finishing in particular, quality can go a long way toward ensuring the market success of a book - as well as the ...

Cutting for Efficiency

Jun 01, 2008; Kuehl, Rob ... Don Quixote had Sancho Panza. Batman had Robin. Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto in his hour of need. Like these famous pairs, automated cutter workflows are more efficient and more productive with a partner - paper handling peripherals. Nothing is more fundamental to the success of a job ...

Focus on Folding

Jun 01, 2008; Witkowski, Trish ... Have you ever tried to describe a folding style over the phone? The conversation usually goes something like this: "OK, take a sheet of paper so the long side is vertical. Now, fold it in half downwards, then in half again . . . no, the other direction . . . no, like the long side is now the ...

Calculating and Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

Jun 01, 2008; Jakubski, Paul ... With all the talk in the media today of global warming and "going green" by lowering your carbon footprint, exactly how do you calculate your carbon footprint? Although currently there is no government mandatory standard to use in the United States, there is an international, voluntary standard ...

A Glimpse of the Future

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Members of TAGA value the organization because it gives a glimpse into the future of graphic technology. There are many examples from the past that bear out this assertion. In the 1950s, TAGA published a series of papers about electronic color separation nearly two decades before it came into ...