The Science of Doctor Blades

Where once true—when the performance of the doctor blade depended solely upon the operator's set-up—now stronger blade holders, higher quality blades, and blade monitoring software offer printers the opportunity to turn doctoring into a near exact science. Yet like any scientific process, there is room for error, and error means downtime, waste, and an inferior print job, said Johnny Stamey, technical product manager at Max Daetwyler (Huntersville, N.C.).