Clean as a Whistle

“A recent customer, Richard Adams, plant manager at Rock-Tenn Company in Nicholasville, Ky., encountered dry ink in the cells of his rolls. This was found to be extremely stubborn to remove and could not be cleaned by conventional methods of chemical application and manual scrubbing.

“To address this problem, Mike Wyatt, general manager of ARCS’ southern region, used an on-site cleaning unit manufactured by Sani-Blast and attached a traverser with a vacuum recovery system to the Roland press. One hour later, the 60-inch rolls were clean and checked with the Capatch for volume readings. Several rolls that were cleaned doubled their volumes from the original BCM readings. This quality check ensured that the rolls were at the level necessary to provide sharp, consistent color densities necessary for repetitive color matching on various jobs.