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Laser Cutting Machines: "Answers to Laser Cutting FAQ's"; Screen Printing; November 2007
As customers push for ever more complex shapes and faster turnaround on the labels and other cut parts they order, screen shops have begun relying on sophisticated laser cutting systems.
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Laser Cutting Machines: "Making The Cut Above"; Canadian Packaging; March 2007
Harnessing the speed and power of modern laser-cutting systems.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Lessons from the North American Gift Card Market"; Card Technology Today; February 2007
Although smart card technology has been slow to penetrate the financial services and retail sectors in the US, it has had noticeable achievements in the area of gift cards.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Configuring Inspection Systems as Production Tools"; Card Manufacturing; January/February 2007
For card manufacturers that insist upon 100% quality, automated inspection systems that guarantee 100% inspection every time are indispensable.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Gift Cards - Opportunities and Trends"; Card Manufacturing; post EXPO 2006
We all know that gift cards have been quite a success in the United States but only recently did it truly become evident that in addition to the initial sale, gift cards could still generate revenue in the form of up-buying and un-redeemed cards.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Revisiting Service In A Global Economy"; Card Technology Today; November/December 2006
A growing number of card manufacturers are offering card issuers the promise of lower costs that derive from globally distributed manufacturing capabilities.
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Laser Cutting Machines: "Casting a lasers eye-view on digital die cutting"; Converter; November 2006
Is it time to add digital die cutting (aka laser cutting) to your finishing department?
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Plastic Card Inspection: "New Technology For Global Service Delivery"; Cards Now Asia; July/August 2006
The "Get-In-Touch" PC combines remote control software, VolP phone and a USB camera to facilitate real-time multi-model remote diagnostics, training and assistance.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Beyond Clamshell Presses--Decalcorama's Story"; SGIA Journal; Third Quarter 2006
Just as imortant, on the human side, automated die cutting means our employees do less physically exerting work than they did before. Since we started using the automated die cutting system, quality and speed have improved.
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Laser Cutting Machines: "El acabado digital es adecuado para su empresa de plásticos?"; Plasticos Universales; June 2006
Existen beneficios y limitaciones que hacen que los sistemas que utilizan herraientas sean más adecuados.
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Laser Cutting Machines: "Seizing the Digital Die Cutting Advantage"; SGIA Journal; Second Quarter 2006
The basic advantage of a laser cutting system is that it provides a tool-free method for cutting.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Market Conditions Driving Demand For Automated Card Inspection"; OnBoard Technogy; April 2006
The ID card markets have been shaped, since their inception, by their need to stay several steps ahead of counterfeiters.
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Laser Cutting Machines: "Was macht eine gutte Laserstanze aus?"; Etiketten-Labels; February 2006
Qualitätsmerkmale von digitalen Stanzsystemen für den Einsatz bei der Etikettenherstellung
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Laser Cutting Machines: "Laser statt Stanzform?"; Packaging Austria; Nr 2/06
Jeder, der seinen Kunden schon einmal die Verz ögerung eines Liefertermins aufgrund der Fabrikationszeiten für die Stanzwerkzeuge erkläre musste, wird den Reiz laser-basierter Schneidesysteme nachvollziehen können.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Succeeding in the Small Order Financial Card Niche"; Card Manufacturing; November/December 2005
As financial cards continue to become more of a price-based commodity sale, many ICMA members with long time financial card niches have diversified into new product lines.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Growing consensus to provide guarantees in security features"; SCT; October-November 2005
Spartanics is devoting an important share of its activity to different aspects of card manufacturing systems, with integrated equipment for die-cutting, card punching, inspection, counting or material feeding.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Jump On the Loyalty card Trend--But Do It Right!; CardsNow!Asia; September/October 2005
It is hard to ignore the explosion of loyalty cards--whether you are shopping at the grocery store, picking up a prescription or renting a movie.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Global Trends in Die Cutting"; Graphic Arts Association Bulletin; 261 September 2005
PDF of article is in Chinese.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Buying Tips for Converters"; International Package Printing and Converting News for China; August 2005
PDF file of article in Chinese
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Integrity of Mexico's new voter ID cards ensured via automated card inspection system"; re:ID; Fall 2005
Mexico's voter ID program relies on top-of-the-line inspection.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Making the case for better ID cards"; Card Technology Today; July/August 2005
"UV and IR security features, because they are hidden in the visible spectrum, have always been important in aspects of fraud prevention in most types of high value cards."
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Plastic Card Punching: "Time to Start Making Secure ID Cards?"; Card Manufacturing; Pre-Expo 2005
While some ICMA members have jumped into new markets for secure ID cards and similar security feature-rich card products, others have held back. Here are some factors to consider.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Short-run Die Cutting"; American Printer; June 2005
There are three main types of die cutting technology: platen presses, rotary die cutters and optically registered gap presses.
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Die Cutting Systems: "New Products Through Precision Die Cutting - ODC Shares Its Story"; Modern Plastics; April 2005
Like a growing number of plastics fabricators worldwide, Wisconsin-based ODC has developed new product capabilities through adding high-precision optically registered die-cutting technology.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Getting Printing Right --Quickly"; Card Manufacturing; March/April 2005
There are a range of new printing techniques that should be considered by any ICMA card manufacturer member with an eye on remaining competitive.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Die Options Explained"; International Package Printing and Converting News for China; February 2005
PDF file of article in Chinese
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Plastic Card Punching: "Choosing the Right Equipment to Help Grow Your Business: A Case Study"; Card Manufacturing, January/February 2005
Today RFID cards are everywhere you look--from the driver that waves a card to gain access to a parking garage, to the employer that used ID cards to track his employees' hours and attendance to the photo ID cards.
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Die Options: "Die Options Explained"; Paper, Film & Foil Converter; January 2005
Are you using the right die for the job? It's time to explore all your options.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Equipment investment - the key to new contracts?; Card Technology Today, November/December 2004
Usually, keeping capital equipment up-to-date is a matter that most card issuers gladly leave in the hands of card manufacturers. Recently card manufacturers have been eager to showcase their new technology investments to their card issuing clients.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Get in on the Loyalty Card Trend--But Do It Right!"; Card Manufacturing; Post Expo 2004
It's hard to ignore the explosion of loyalty cards. Whether you are shopping at the grocery store, picking up a prescription or renting a movie . . .
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Die Cutting Systems: "Selecting the right technology for die cutting plastics"; Asian Plastics News; November 2004
Finding the right tools for finishing decorated plastics products requires both an understanding of the physical constraints of handling elastic plastics materials and trends in merging markets.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Add Die Cutting to Get the Most Out of Your Digital Printing Press"; SGIA Journal Third Quarter 2004
Finishing equipment such as a die cutting system will allow you to expand your product line and easily accommodate a variety of specialty advertising requests.
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Die Cutting Systems: "From Prepress and Beyond"; IPA Bulletin, September/October 2004
Expansion from prepress to digital printing to die cutting is timely given the growing market for short runs of digitally printed and die cut products.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Automated Inspection Of RFID Plastic Card Products";
OnBoard Technology, September 2004
This past year, the more savvy manufacturers of RFID plastic card products have found new ways to significantly increase profits by using automated inspection technology.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Getting More Out of Fast-Growing Blank Plastic Card Markets"; Card Manufacturing, September/October 2004
For many, selling blank plastic cards to systems suppliers is a nettlesome headache. Typically at issue is the premier quality required by dye sublimation printing processes applied to blank plastic cards by systems suppliers.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Stretching Staff Power"; Card Manufacturing, July/August 2004
When demand doubles, you will just add another shift. Right? Well, you can certainly plan to do so, but it will no doubt cost you a good deal and probably not make growth worth the bother.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Trends In Smart Card Inspection"; On Board Technology, June 2004
In today's security-conscious world, not equipping a plant to take on secure card applications with a demonstrable 100% quality guarantee could be crippling for a company's future.
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Sheet Counters: "Contadoras de hojas"; ArtesGraficas; Agosto 2004
El rango de error del conteo manual ronda, por lo general, el 5% o 10%, porcentaje que termina afectando no solo el margen de utilidades sino la imagen del impresor ante sus clientes.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Precision Diecutting-A Shortcut to New Opportunities"; Screen Printing, June 2004
Whether you specialize in screen printing or focus on digital imaging, diecutting equipment can help you expand your production capabilities and your product line.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Re-tool for specialty advertising products"; Converting On-Line, June 2004
Selecting the right diecutting system for your package-converting operation depends on the types of jobs you'll produce.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Keeping Pace with Improved Automation"; Cards Now!Asia, March/April 2004
Asian card manufacturers, like those across the globe, need to find new ways to cope with the increasingly competitive global marketplace.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Take a cut of the specialty advertising market"; New England Printer & Publisher, March 2004
What if there was a way to quickly and inexpensively expand into the specialty advertising market?
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Die Cutting Systems: "La découpe electro-optique"; Papier Carton, Mars 2004
La société Spartanics, par l'inermédiaire de Bob Trkovsky, vice-président des ventes et du marketing de Rolling Meadows, sa filiale dans I'Illinois, analyse les atouts des équipements électro-optiques de decoupe pour les produits personnalisés.
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Sheet Counters: "Counting matters"; Australian Printer, March 2004
Counting your costs? Keeping a close account of inventory may be a good place to start.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Speed and endurance key to finishing well for plastics printer"; Graphic Network Printing Views, February 2004
Ken Thompson, owner of Uniontown, Ohio-headquartered Rainbow Printing and Ultra Plastics, compares his firm's latest technical innovation, a high-speed Spartanics punching and die-cutting system, to a marathon champion.
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Die Cutting Systems: "A cut above the rest"; print & paper Europe, February 2004
Die cutting provides printers with the opportunity to add value in finishing. But, how do you know which system is right for you?
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Die Cutting Systems: "Die Cut Your Way to New Markets"; Printing Review, January-February 2004
That prepviously rare request for special boxes for company video promotionals is now an established nice worth exploring.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Recent Card Manufacturing Trends"; Smart Card Technology International, 2004 Issue
Over the past few years, new types of cards have been introduced into the market such as see-through charge cards and irregular-shaped cards that can be attached to key chains.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Time to Retool?"; Card Manufacturing, Post Expo 2003
Many of us may now be joining economic pundits in their yea or nay forecasts of how our economy is faring. Whether you think the economy is out of the woods, as they say, or not, is certainly not the only, or even the best, reason to consider capital imp
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Die Cutting Systems: "Hinein-Stanzen in neue Marktbereiche"; Papier+Folien, Dezember 2003
Aber es gibt eine Schnellstraße zu diesem Segment der Kleinaufträ Wenn man die eigene Verarbeitung um Stanztechnologie mit optisch, elektronisch gesteuerter Positionierung ergänzt, erlangt die Firma auch die Werkzeugflexibilität, die gebraucht wird, um Kl
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Die Cutting Systems: "El corte perfectos"; Signs of the Times & Screen Printing en español, Noviembre 2003
Una guía para una Buena selección de equipos de corte.
No invierta en un Nuevo equipo de corte para su negocio sin antes leer esta revisiósobre su tecnologia. Aprenda sobre los tipos de sistemas de corte actualmente disponibles, las capacidades que of
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Die Cutting Systems: "Flexible finishing"; Converting Today UK, October 2003
Tackling growing market opportunities for new types of packaging, such as those made from more elastic plastics like Teslin, sometimes has less to do with the press and more to do with the finishing equipment on hand.
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Die Cutting Systems: "Cutting up nicely"; screen process, UK; October 2003
Don't invest in a new cutting device for your business before reading this overview of cutting-equipment technology.
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40th Anniversary: "Forty years of innovation"; Rolling Meadows Review, October 2003
After four decades of running Rolling Meadows-based Spartanics, co-founder Sam Willits' eyes still light up when he is talking about his company's products.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Process Control Primer"; Card Manufacturing, September/October 2003
Let's face it--card makers, and especially financial transaction card manufacturers, are under the gun to hold on to any profit margins. Simultaneously, customers are pushing for much shorter delivery times, as they are less and less willing to assume th
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Die Cutting Systems: "Guida All'Acquisto Di Fustellatrici Per I Convertitori Di Imballaggio Flessible"; Converter - Flessibili-Carta-Cartone, Italy, September/October 2003
Confezioni de biscotti a forma di albero di Natale, confezioni de biscotti che rappresentano gnomi marionette, imballi intelligenti sotto forma di barilotti da 2001- cosa altro ci risevera il futuro?
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Die Cutting Systems: "Spartanics Open House"; Graphic Arts Monthly Graph Expo Show Daily, September 2003
Spartanics hosted a hands-on demonstration of new methods for producing magnets and other short-run specialty plastic products at the Spartanics Second Annual Open House.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Why Automate Inspection?"; Cards Now Asia; March/April 2003
While decisions to automate card manufacturing tasks are straight forward in Western nations...these matters tend to involve more nuanced considerations where low cost labour is plentiful.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Are New Card Designs a Blessing or a Curse?"; Card Manufacturing, March/April 2003
See-through cards, key chain cards, and irregular shapes like the recent kidney-shaped Discover Card – are these hot market opportunities for card manufacturers or hurdles to jump that
imperil profitability?
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Plastic Card Inspection: "How To Gauge Return-On-Investment from Card Inspection Systems"; Card Manufacturing, November/December 2002
Pre-purchase calculations of return-on-investment of earlier generations of inspection machines had always involved a bit of fuzzy math, because the fickleness of these machines from one job to another involved guesstimates.
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Beyond Manual Card Inspection"; Card Forum International, September/October 2002
Semi-automated methods for card inspection are still the norm for a large number of card manufacturers worldwide
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Plastic Card Inspection: "Newly Practical Card Inspections", Card Manufacturing, July / August 2002
Athough many loyalty card manufacturers have not yet reaped the advantages of automated card inspection, most financial card makers now rely on some degree of card inspection automation.
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Plastic Card Punching: "Card Express Printing Increased Output Ten-fold"; Second Impressions, November/December 2002
10-fold increase in one year? Yes, and similar growth continues as Card Express Printing’s parent company, Gold Line Telemanagement continues to harness the exploding global market for prepaid phone cards.
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