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Doctor blades are the right Rx for gravure

(Magazine)

September 30, 1995, A new doctor blade design, offering spring load tension and high contact angle, reportedly makes the quality printing afforded by gravure even better.The A new doctor blade design, offering spring load ...

The Feat of the Foam

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

May 07, 2023, ... applications. There are multiple factors that can cause the aeration of your aqueous coatings during production. Ink pumps, doctor blades, end seals and anilox rolls are often the top culprits of foaming ...

Tangent Shear Slitting | Reduce Edge Defects in Shrink Sleeve Film

(Slit)

December 04, 2017, ... slit with razor blades. They are inexpensive and they serve the market well for many general film slitting purposes. However, shrink sleeve film has a unique requirement in that the edges of a piece of ...

Universal Converting Reports Installations

(News | New Products)

March 03, 2017, ... for the life of the machine Automatic positioning of shear (knives and anvils) and razor blades Automatic positioning of rewind cores Additional slit tension zone The Universal X6 slitting machine ...

Show Preview | INFO*FLEX Offers Gold Mine of Solutions

(Trade Shows)

April 10, 2014, ... and the first to use Epson’s new LED-cured UV ink with in-line digital varnish technology. Flexo Concepts (Booth 909) will feature its TruPoint Orange doctor blade, which eliminates UV ink spitting, ...

Azco Knife Assemblies Give Clean Cuts

(News | New Products)

July 31, 2012, ... guillotine knife assemblies offer many benefits, including simple installation and hookup, long blade life, clean cuts, and low maintenance. Units can be mounted in any position for convenient operation, ...

Not Just a Pretty Face

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2009, ... traditional mechanical or pneumatic actuation to enable the operator to set side force and overlap electronically. Once set, the unit automatically calibrates itself and positions the blade to reduce setup ...

AIMCAL Honors Technology of the Year, Institutes Sustainability Competition

(News | New Products)

March 24, 2009, ... overlap electronically. Once set, the unit automatically calibrates itself and positions the blade to reduce setup time and improve safety while ensuring product quality because of greater predictability ...

Cleaning at the Cutting Edge

(News | New Products)

August 17, 2008, ... slitting, blades are rotating and circular and are set at an angle to the product being slit. Shear cutting for the most part produces good edge quality and a clean cut. However, in certain circumstances ...

Picking Up the Pace

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2007, ... handle different substrates. Recent introductions include the all-electronic e-Knifeholder from Tidland that self-calibrates to optimize blade geometry during setup, blade overlap, and side-force; the ...

WHAT'S NE

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ...  Two-sided coater is designed to apply an overall coat of temperature-controlled fluid to two sides of the web simultaneously. Enclosed reverse-angle doctor blade systems are used for precise fluid application ...

New Products, Part 1

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... easier cleaning, better ink metering, more resistance to doctor blade scoring, and cleaner print without loss of density. Sheeter has High-Speed Cutter Maxson Automatic Machinery Co., Westerly, ...

New Products

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... S-Tec precision automatic roll slitter includes an automatic blade grinder with options for automatic pivoting blade angle and powered mandrel support. New model is designed to maximize yields and minimize ...

Slitting Debris: Cracking the Case

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... All three conventional slitting methods (razor, crush, and shear) require the freshly fractured edge to drag along the blade's flank as it passes downweb. The side load and relative motion during contact ...

A Recipe for Flexo Printing Success

(Flexpack)

May 30, 2004, ... accurately measure those ingredients? Ink Drawdowns—Has the ink been drawndown using the same volume anilox we will use on the press? If you use a ceramic anilox with a doctor blade on the press, you ...

Dual-Deckle System for Trouble-Free Web Width Variation

(The Place)

November 30, 2003, ... in the machine direction, it necks-in — becomes narrower — resulting in an accumulation of material on the edges. By adjusting the relative positions of the internal deckle blades, processors can minimize ...

Pay Attention to Tension

(Archive)

August 31, 2003, ... If there is insufficient tension, the web will gather or stretch around the blade before fracturing. Q: Are score- and shear-slitting quality affected by low tension? A: Score slitting is probably ...

Products

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... co. to test new, unproven mechanical systems and will enable it to have a functional machine always available for demonstration purposes. Doctor Blade Inking Systems ImproveInterflex LLC, Green Bay, ...

Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... consider. Razor Slitting One of the problems encountered when you are razor slitting is edge thickening at the cut edge. This occurs because the blade retards the flow of the web and slows some of ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... media. These systems are used for cleaning gravure cylinders, anilox rollers, doctor blade holders, ink trays, and an assortment of other printing press parts. The operation of the equipment is said to ...