Page 7 - "How to print on flexo?" By Petra Bteich
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The ink-metering was
achieved using two rolls, one
for picking up the ink from the
ink reservoir and another for
doctoring the ink film and
transferring it to a wooden or
metal plate. The ink-metering
system was coarse and
difficult to control. In 1939, a
mechanically engraved
cylinder, the ink-metering roll
or the so called anilox roll,
was introduced to the aniline
industry (Cushdin 1999a).
This made ink-metering more
accurate and the old rubber
roll to rubber roll arrangement
disappeared.
