Today’s high line count anilox rolls offer increased printing quality. However, they are more fragile and more easily damaged than older aniloxes, and require cleaning systems with a softer touch.

By Kate Sharon

• Is ecologically friendly so that there is no cost or hazard for disposal of the cleaning materials. Also, companies are much more concerned about the VOCs they are emitting; and

• The cost per roll for cleaning is economical.”

While systems that fit Paynter’s list of customer-wants do exist and meet the demands of cleaning high count line aniloxes, it’d be a dream come true for printers if there was a self-cleaning roll. That dream is plausible.