Choosing the Right Equipment

"Changing slit widths is relatively easy, since only the slitter is repositioned over the fixed anvil roll," Schable said. One of its downfalls, however, is it is the most dusty of the slitting methods, delivering the poorest edge quality," he says.

Ivens agrees and added score slitting systems are not as clean as shear slitting when slitting paper products, but it does "work well for the removal of thin edge trim or when frequent knife cleaning is required as when cutting through adhesives."