Pamarco Blogs

Is it worth your company’s time and resources to complete an anilox roll audit? Are there really enough benefits to make it worth your while? What kind of information can you glean from an audit that you couldn’t find out on your own? Before we answer those questions...

As we are quickly approaching the warm summer months, when in-plant temperatures often soar to the 90’s and above, it’s time to take a step back and face some facts about our printing environments. The most glaring fact: the time spent maintaining both the ink control...

Let us take a moment to talk about ink. Within the parameters of the print and packaging industry, ink quality is essential. When ink lacks consistency, it is obvious to the naked eye and can quickly become a large waste of time and expense. Thankfully, as technology...

If you’ve been in the industry for a while, you probably know a lot about anilox and gravure coating rollers. You’ve likely heard them called “the heart of the flexo and coating press.” But maybe they aren’t something that you work with every day and could use a...

We have all heard that the anilox roll is the heart of the flexographic printing process. While this is very true, it is also true that the heart alone cannot get the job done. In order to print consistently from both a production and graphics standpoint, there has to...

“If at first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed” – Curly Howard. Thankfully, we don’t have to be a Stooge by not meeting customer expectations. We can clearly see that the failure to understand common flexographic print issues is costly. The good...

Are your glue sets changed on a schedule or do you wait for production to complain about warped boards? Put another way: when was the last time you had your glue roll and metering rolls inspected? If you answered less than once a year, you may be wasting resources....