Cores, Shafts, and Chucks in a Digital World

"No, the role of cores, shafts, and chucks remains the same," he said. "Any web-fed operation needs to firmly hold and control the rolls at the unwind, rewind, laminating, and matrix locations. Digital technology is changing job set up and run sizes, not eliminating web-fed operations."

Mike Flannigan, regional sales representative, Tidland Corp.—a manufacturer of air shafts—agrees. He said, "I don't see a significant impact on air shaft design or implementation as a consequence of digital printing modulaties."