Flexo

Anilox Wear

General wear of the surface of the anilox reducing cell volume.

Causes

  • Using too much doctor blade pressure
  • Chamber out of alignment
  • using a low quality doctor blade

Solutions

  • Use lowest doctor blade pressure possible
  • calibrate the chamber
  • use high quality doctor blades with fine grain doctor blade steel (OptiPrint, PowerPrint, CeraPrint, CeraFlex XT, DuroBlade)

Recommended Solutions to solving Anilox Wear

The new CeraFlex® XT - doctor blade
CeraFlex XT
OptiPrint
PowerPrint
CeraPrint®
DuroBlade

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Scoring Lines
Back Doctoring
Ink Spitting
Ink Spitting
Leaking
Dot Gain
Bridging / Filling In
Excessive Doctor Blade Wear
Wavy Doctor Blade
Wavy Doctor Blade
Halo Effect / Haloing
Chattermarks

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