Seeing Applications Through

Stainless steel mesh screenmakers tout dura-bility. In the case of Gallus' stainless steel Screeny rotary screens, which are nickel-plated and coated with an emulsion and a protective layer before being shipped in roll form, performance levels average 100,000 to 150,000 revolutions.

Coming advances in Screeny technology center on package printing's mad dash toward metallic inks, which harbor what Technical Service Manager Terry Trexler dubs "the problem of pigment size."