A method for producing packages holding liquid food products from a web of packaging material, wherein the web comprises a number of blanks placed after one another, wherein each blank corresponds to one package, the method comprising receiving a reel holding the web of packaging material, capturing reel data from a tag attached to the reel, transferring the reel data to a printing information database, receiving printing information data (PID) related to the reel data from the printing information database, printing decors on each of the blanks of the web of packaging material based on information provided via the PID, transferring the reel data to a packaging machine information database receiving packaging machine information data (PMID) related to the reel data from the packaging machine information database, and forming the packages from the d?cor provided web in a packaging machine based on information provided via the PMID.

A sheet feeding device includes a sensor, a roller, and a support on which the sensor and the roller are disposed. The support supports the sensor and the roller so that the sensor and the roller contact a surface of the sheet roll. The sensor and the roller face toward an axial center of the sheet roll. The roller is spaced apart from the sensor in a circumferential direction of the sheet roll. The sensor has a detection accuracy capable of detecting a step at a leading end of the sheet roll.

The disclosure relates to a system for processing a ready-to-use web of a laminated packaging material including: a first rotatable roller and a second rotatable roller, wherein the web of laminated packaging material is wound from the first roller to the second roller a sensor for detecting a marking on the packaging material, said marking located at a predetermined position on said packaging material; at least one module arranged between the first rotatable roller and the second rotatable roller and configured to process the laminated packaging material; and a control unit connected to the sensor and the module. The control unit is configured to control the module based on the detected marking and/or information stored in the control unit. The disclosure also relates to a method for processing a ready-to-use web of a laminated packaging material, and a laminated packaging material.

A method for regulating the processing of a material web that has register marks and is driven via at least one drive roller is described, in which the register marks are guided past at least one sensor that captures register marks and an evaluation device determines the deviation of an actual position, corresponding to the capturing event, of at least one processing tool from a predetermined position of the at least one processing tool, and in which a regulating device uses the deviation between the actual position and the predetermined position of the at least one processing tool to regulate the actual processing position of the at least one processing tool. The evaluation device determines the actual distance between successive register marks with regard to the measurement system of the at least one drive roller and correlates this with an expected distance between the register marks with regard to the measurement system of the at least one drive roller.

In some embodiments, a method for manufacturing a packaging material includes forwarding a web of said packaging material through a nip provided between an anvil roller and an imprint roller which are arranged against each other, said imprint roller having a surface area including an imprinting area and a non-imprinting area, said imprinting area comprising protrusions forming an imprinting pattern. The method can further include imprinting the imprinting pattern into an outermost layer of said packaging material with said imprinting pattern as said web passes through the nip to form a visual or tactile pattern on the packaging material corresponding to said imprinting pattern. The method can further include adjusting the position of said web when said non-imprinting area of said surface area faces said packaging material The disclosure also relates to an apparatus for manufacturing a packaging material and a packaging material.

Splicing method and unit for a packaging machine, whereby a first film is spliced to a second film which is a spare film. The splicing is performed by means of an adhesive element with two opposing adhesive surfaces, one for each film, and a longitudinal adhering element. First an adhesive surface is adhered to the adhering element and said adhering element moves so that the other adhesive surface comes into contact with the second film and adheres to it. Then the adhering element is separated from said second film, the adhesive element being adhered to said second film, and the first film is caused to come into contact with said adhesive element already adhered to the second film.

Systems for marking a moving film that include a triggering apparatus (140) that repeatedly provides a trigger signal, a controller (120) that receives the trigger signal and generates a marking signal, and a marking device (130) that receives the marking signal and marks the film are provided Also provided are methods for marking a moving film that employ the systems. Apparatuses for marking a moving film that include the triggering apparatus and the controller are also provided. Methods for making metallized marked films that include a film marked by these systems and a metallized layer, in which at least one marking is embedded within the film are also provided. Also provided are methods for making packages and packing a product in these packages, in which the packages include the metallized marked films are also provided.

A printing system having an IC tag processing function includes a first medium conveyance section and a second medium conveyance section that convey a medium including a plurality of medium sheets each having an IC tag, an IC tag processor that performs reading and writing processing for the IC tag, a printing section that performs printing on the medium, a slack generator that permits generation of slack of the medium, a calculator that calculates a substantial conveyance speed of the medium by the first medium conveyance section, on a basis of a length of a single medium sheet having the IC tag and time needed by the IC tag processor to process the IC tag of the single medium sheet, and a speed determinator that sets a conveyance speed of the medium by the second medium conveyance section to a speed slower than the substantial conveyance speed.

In some illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a novel expandable slit paper expansion device design is provided that, among other things, avoid complications of prior systems and eliminates the crushing effect of the rollers. Among other things, the preferred embodiments provide a unique structure that provides a novel S shape path of the expandable slit sheet paper, such that the expandable slit sheet paper is tortuously weaved between at least two expansion rollers without being compressed there-between, in a manner that the expandable slit sheet paper follows along surfaces of the expansion rollers without pinching or compression that occurs in the background art.

Example implementations relate to determining a correction factor that converts a measured sensor distance (228) to a calibrated sensor distance (222). The measured sensor distance may be based on an amount of substrate advancement through a web printing press (202) between detecting a mark (226-1, . . . , 226-N) on the substrate (204) at a first sensor (212) and detecting the mark at a second sensor (214). The calibrated sensor distance (222) may be the separation between the first sensor and the second sensor.