Where Materials and Minds Meet

Burie notes many improvements in in-line operations currently stem from enclosed doctor blade chambers, more accurate gearless drives, and more precise anilox rolls. Other operational advancements soon to be out and about include Dri-Tec's new RegiTrend™ software, which monitors variance in repeat length after lamination, and then spreads out that variance to eliminate larger "catch-up" corrections to registration down the line. Benefits of direct-drive, infinitely variable repeat presses—centered mainly in ease-of-use and universality—also carry over into attached coating and laminating units, Deamer adds.