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Reuse, reuse, reuse

Much like you can resurface the brake rotors for the disc brakes on your vehicle before having to replace them, you can resurface your anilox rolls. Sleeves are more difficult to resurface and whether or not they can be relies on how they were handled.

“Most every roll can be resurfaced multiple times provided it was correctly engineered in the first instance,” says Foran. This means, she continues, using the correct quality of steel, having the correct wall thickness, ensuring the journals and headers have been adequately set into the core, and that the roll was dynamically balanced to suit the speeds a printer intends to run. “Failure to carry out any of these factors will or can result in the roll not being able to be reconditioned without incurring additional major costs other than simply recoating and engraving the surface of the roll.”