Description
The die-cutting and tooling process is among the most critical areas of label converting and finishing. The sophisticated technology it uses enables the production of quality die-cut and converted labels and their application to multiple surfaces, using a wide variety of substrates, on many different presses.
With a better understanding of this often overlooked discipline, you can improve production standards and significantly reduce costly downtime due to pressure-sensitive quality faults.
This book explains the complex and vital role die-cutting and tooling plays. Through a series of detailed explanations, photographs, diagrams and charts, the author provides a detailed look at modern tooling technology - how the tools are manufactured, their use and applications, how they should be handled and stored. It includes a section on troubleshooting on the production line and a glossary of terms to ensure any unknown phrases are quickly understood within context.
Label converters, industry suppliers and label buyers and all other professionals involved in label converting and finishing will find this book a valuable reference source that helps them run a more profitable business.
Chapters include:
- The label printing and converting process
- Die-cutting of label webs to shape and size
- Optimizing the die-cutting process
- Special tooling for cutting, perforating, hole punching and slitting
- The nature, use and manufacture of embossing dies and cylinders
- The hot foiling process and the use and manufacture of foiling dies
- Cylinders, anvils, support rollers and magnetic cylinders
- Ancillary equipment for setting, measuring, testing, monitoring andadjusting tooling
- Inspecting, cleaning, handling, storage and safety considerations
- A guide to troubleshooting when using label dies and related tooling
- Glossary of die-cutting and tooling terminology
About the Author
Michael Fairley has been writing and speaking about label and packaging materials, technology and applications since the 1970s, both as the founder of Labels & Labeling and other print industry magazine titles and as an international consultant writing label industry market and technology research reports for the likes of Frost & Sullivan, Economist Intelligence Unit, Pira, InfoTrends and Labels & Labelling Consultancy. He has written or contributed to over 20 technical books, including five international encyclopedias, as well as a number of historical research/biography titles. He has worked at senior management and director level in research, education, printing and publishing and currently works as a consultant to Tarsus Exhibitions & Publishing - which organizes the global Labelexpo shows, Label Summits and publishes Labels & Labeling magazine - as well as regularly speaking at industry conferences and seminars. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Package / Packaging Society, Fellow of IP3, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, an Honorary Life Member of FINAT and a Licentiate of the City & Guilds of London Institute. He was awarded the R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.