GATFWORLD back issues from September 2003:
OSHA removes personnel lifting provision from forklift rule
Sep 01, 2003; ... In the Federal Register June 2, 2003, OSHA made a technical amendment to the Powered Industrial Trucks standard to delete requirements covering the use of powered industrial trucks to lift personnel because they were invalidly promulgated from a non-mandatory provision of a national consensus ...
EPA issues regulation clarifying landowners superfund liability relief
Sep 01, 2003; ... On May 9, 2003, EPA released a rule clarifying how certain owners or purchasers of potentially contaminated property should conduct assessments to avoid Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) or Superfund liability. Under the Superfund law, property owners ...
SPCC revised rule deadlines extended
Sep 01, 2003; ... A rule published in the Federal Register, April 17, 2003, extended the deadlines by which facilities must amend and implement their Spill Prevention Control and Counter-measures (SPCC) Plans, a set of regulations developed by EPA addressing oil spill prevention and response. Facilities ...
OSHA decides against special ergonomic injury column on Form 300
Sep 01, 2003; ... On June 30, 2003, OSHA announced in the Federal Register, it was not going to add a special column on Form 300 for musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) or ergonomic injuries. Form 300 is used to record workplace injuries and illnesses and it contains a set of columns for certain injuries or illnesses ...
EPA changes two toxic air pollution control rules
Sep 01, 2003; ... On May 15, 2003, EPA revised two rules under the Maximum Available Control Technology (MACT) rules contributing to its efforts to reduce national emissions of toxic air pollutants. The first action amends a rule known as the "General Provisions," which establishes a common set of requirements ...
UW-Stout teaches wide-web printing with computer simulator
Sep 01, 2003; ... The University of Wisconsin-Stout has always been a leader in using technology to provide real-world learning experiences in classrooms and laboratories as well as to enhance the process of teaching and learning. UW-Stout's Graphic Communications Management (GCM) program is a great example of ...
PrintForce key to future workforce
Sep 01, 2003; ... Marking its fifth anniversary, PrintForce celebrates by announcing that some key successes have been made since the workforce development initiative kicked off in October 1998. An initiative of the Printing Industry of the Carolinas, Inc., PrintForce is experiencing success among its four main ...
Digital color wide format printing
Sep 01, 2003; ... Highlights of the GAMIS Study Conducted by PrintCom Consulting Group Digital color wide format printing is just a little over ten years old, and yet is the most diverse and fastest growing segment of the graphic arts industry. By 2001, after registering annual growth of 50% to 200% in ...
Web Offset training updated materials slated for release
Sep 01, 2003; ... The sixth edition of GATF's Web Offset Press Training Curriculum is slated for release in the fourth quarter of 2003. First introduced to the industry more than ten years ago, this training package has become a popular and widely recognized tool for web printers to use in conducting their own ...
What ever happened to the basics?
Sep 01, 2003; ... As we travel across this land performing technical plant audits, training seminars, and general problem solving, one thing keeps popping up: the fundamental basics are missing! I mean the beginning skills that are still very necessary to the printing industry. I am not saying everyone in this ...
JDF: Winds of change
Sep 01, 2003; ... When I was first asked to write this article I went to work and started on the subject on JDF (job definition format) and interoperability. However, something interesting happened recently. I scrapped the original article and decided to take a different approach. At Seybold Amsterdam, ...
Valassis Web Simulator Training Program increases skill and bottom line
Sep 01, 2003; ... As a leading marketing services company, Valassis prides itself in taking smart risks and being innovative. The SIRS Sinapse web offset printing simulator software has permitted Valassis to bring innovation and smart risk-taking to the printing side of its business, resulting in empowered and ...
Closed-loop color in today's pressroom
Sep 01, 2003; ... The use of closed-loop color (CLC) systems has moved well beyond just controlling the ink keys. As we become more experienced with the use of this technology, we find more ways to utilize the data these systems provide. The information made available in the pressroom, by CLC, increases the ...
Process-free: The holy grail for platemaking
Sep 01, 2003; ... Don't you hate getting stuck behind a bus when you are on a mad trip? It's big, it's noisy, and it smells bad with all of the fumes it emits, especially when it is lumbering up a long grade on a windy mountain road. And how about all the fuel it consumes? Now imagine driving that bus ...
Post Office Commission recommendations update
Sep 01, 2003; ... Over the past three years, the future of the U.S. Postal Service has become an issue of some concern in Washington and within the mailing industry. Concern has been there for years, but with increasing mail volume and a robust economy, it was hard to convince legislators that there was a ...
Analysis of paper roll cycle times
Sep 01, 2003; ... The introduction of the Sunday press ten years ago revolutionised press speed standards for web printing operations. At 3,000 feet per minute, one of these presses running in a typical around-the-clock operation can consume in a year enough paper to reach the moon. That capacity brings ...
Web Offset Association and the future
Sep 01, 2003; ... The 52nd Annual Web Offset Association (WOA) conference will be in Chicago on April 18-21, 2004. Like everything else in this industry, the WOA is going through changes. The Association's long-time director, Tom Basore, has retired, and GATF/PIA Board of Directors has not decided on which of ...
Research on the ROTOMAN
Sep 01, 2003; ... Research activities have concentrated on three areas to date: the GATF ink-paper-press database, government-funded research, and confidential product testing. The ROTOMAN has some very powerful research tools built into the press or present in the many auxiliary accessories. The AC ...
A good news, bad news year for heatset Web printers
Sep 01, 2003; ... For heatset web printers the year 2002 was both a good year and a bad year. The good news for heatset web printers was that for the third year in a row, average profit on sales for heatset web printers (2.44%) was higher than the profit on sales rate for the rest of the printing industry as a ...
Hickeys-where do they come from?
Sep 01, 2003; ... Among the many challenges printers face, the problem of particles on either the blanket or the plate that cause an imperfection in the printing stands as one of the primary sources for productivity loss. These particles may look either like a doughnut shape surrounded by a white halo where a ...
Keeping GATF on the cutting edge of technology
Sep 01, 2003; ... Donations to GATF from the vendor community keep GATF on the leading edge of technology. These equipment donations are used for research and training. Recent major donations include the following: Creo Trendsetter 800 Quantum/DuPont/Western Litho There were multiple donations in ...
Direct mail-an effective and growing media
Sep 01, 2003; ... Thousands of GATF/PIA members print materials specifically designed for direct mail pieces and many depend on direct mail printing for a sizable portion of their sales. GATF/PIA estimates that direct mail printing accounts for approximately $30 billion in printers' annual sales revenues or ...
Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses (MLP U.S.A., Inc.)
Sep 01, 2003; ... Key opportunities. Two ongoing market trends present great opportunities for both printers and press manufacturers: the continued effort on the part of printers to improve process control and the conversion to systems integration in the manufacturing process. To meet the demands for ...
Heidelberg USA
Sep 01, 2003; ... Key opportunities. We continue to focus on automation throughout the web offset process. Technology to automate plate changing, unit and folder presetting, color and register control, and other functions can increase productivity and efficiency, cut make-ready times and waste, and simplify ...
MAN Roland supports a world-class research and training facility
Sep 01, 2003; ... MAN Roland ROTOMAN-One Year Later As web printing has improved its responsiveness to the current market-with faster turnaround and lower costs through faster makereadies, less waste, and more targeted pressruns-the need for information on the latest technologies and the value of their ...
KBA Web Division (Koenig & Bauer AG)
Sep 01, 2003; ... Key opportunities and challenges. The ever more intense price war among printers necessitates ever higher productivity and press availability in order to increase efficiency. This calls for higher production speeds with higher circulations and a reduction in make-ready times and waste due to a ...
Trends impacting the Web Offset industry
Sep 01, 2003; ... A few years ago at the Web Offset Association's annual conference a consultant told members: "Print is dead. We just don't know it yet." To that gentleman I say: "Read my lips. Print is alive and well." And its future is very bright. Certainly there are threats to ink-on-paper, but ...
ROTOMAN rises to many occasions
Sep 01, 2003; ... As the four-unit ROTOMAN commemorates its first anniversary at GATF, printers across the country are preparing for their own celebrations welcoming new ROTOMANs of various configurations into their facilities and their marketplaces in the coming months. Two notable installations, one ongoing and ...
MAN Roland, Inc.
Sep 01, 2003; ... Key challenges. The main challenge for printers and press manufacturers alike is that the market today is driven by world affairs more than in the past. In regard to that, print management finds their market more competitive than ever. That means smart printers need to cut costs, increase ...
Goss International
Sep 01, 2003; ... Key opportunities. Our key opportunity over the next few years is to maintain our focus on "Innovation for Business," bringing products, technologies, and services to the global printing press market that deliver real customer benefits. Goss offers a wide range of printing press products ...