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

By Tom Polischuk

Dave Burgess, vice president sales and marketing, Pamarco Global Graphics—Anilox improvements have certainly contributed to the growing success of flexo. The keys to these improvements have been the precision of the latest generation of solid-state lasers and the systems available to measure and control the cell geometry and cell volume and, hence, deliver a consistent ink film thickness to the printing plate.