Keeping Your Aniloxes Healthy

Scoring is another problem ­Rosenberger says stems from no filters, broken filters, no magnets, filled magnets, foreign particles in the ink, or worn blades. “If you are scoring the anilox,” he says, “you are doing it with something harder than ceramic, which has a pretty good Rockwell hardness relative to the substances an anilox comes in contact with during its use.” (For more on doctor blades and scoring, turn to page 34 for ­packagePRINTING’s doctoring ­system coverage.)