Beating Static Woes

• "The best approach to ensuring peak performance is to start early by making sure your static control equipment is in top condition. The ability to run your press at the highest speeds available will keep yields up, translating into more profit. Having to stop a press to clean the blanket of slitter dust on an hourly basis costs printers money. Invest in a small hand-held static meter to take some of the mystery out of static; it's a useful tool to provide periodic verification of the performance at a much lower cost than the expensive monitoring systems that are incorporated into static bars from several manufacturers."—Jim Patterson, executive VP, Julie Industries