Benefits from today’s anilox rolls include dot gain reduction, improved color quality, and longer roll life

By Tom Polischuk

Lanska—New engraving technologies are poised to increase engraving efficiency and expand engraving capabilities. It is important to keep in mind, however, that each time we have introduced the industry to a new engraving technology, (whether CO2, YAG, multi-hit, and most recently, fiber optic) the development curve has taken considerable time, effort, and money. There were bumps along the way. Once these technologies were developed and refined, they provided significant improvements in cell geometry, which translated into improvements in print quality.