Getting the Right Impression

One of the most innovative approaches to protected cutting edge integrity is accomplished by using a knife made with compressible "feet" or protrusions on the base of the steel, which act like shock absorbers to accommodate variation in the platen stack, the cutting plate, and in the steel rule die. These "self-leveling" knives have never achieved the degree of success they have Internationally in the United States because of resistance to change and a failure to make simple changes to the method of tool manufacturing.