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Anilox Cleaning: No One-Size-Fits-All

Anilox Cleaning: No One-Size-Fits-All

Cleanliness is next to, well, quality, especially when it comes to your anilox rolls. We’ve talked before about the importance of having clean anilox rolls. Clean rolls save time, money, reduces substrate waste, and helps ensure the quality of every label or package...

“Do I Feel Lucky?”

“Do I Feel Lucky?”

When a new job comes in your press, operators probably select anilox rolls with cell capacities within a fairly narrow range so they can get to the desired ink densities faster. But how can they be sure that the capacities marked on the roll are accurate? How were the...

Score!

Score!

It was the press assistant who noticed it first. About 31,000 feet into the run of frozen food bags for a big supermarket chain he noticed spotted a thin line running through the front side of the bags. Not good. He called the press operator over while bringing the...

Cleanliness is Next to Success

Cleanliness is Next to Success

It makes no difference whether you are running a fleet of narrow-web flexo presses with open ink trays or big central impression cylinder machines with pressurized ink supplies and steps leading to the top of the press. They still have one thing in common: anilox...