Pulse Roll Label Shares Insights into Fixed Anilox Printing

Pulse Roll Label Products has shared its insight to Fixed Anilox Printing – a technique to simplify and standardize UV flexo label printing.

Fixed Anilox Printing uses Pulse Roll Labels’ specially formulated PureTone range of high strength single-pigment inks alongside a bespoke colour mixing database. The system enables printers to produce any imaginable spot colour all off one volume of anilox – meaning a fixed set can be installed and the rollers do not need changing between jobs.

Fixed Anilox Printing has already demonstrated its success in many leading label companies, helping them standardize, maximize capacity, and save time and considerable cost, while ensuring perfect printing with minimum effort.

“Time and again we see our competitors’ inks requiring multiple aniloxes and many anilox changes to achieve consistent print performance because their inks are varying in strength. Changeovers are eating up capacity and cost unnecessarily,” said Gary Seward, managing director of Pulse Roll Labels.

“Simply put, with Fixed Anilox Printing, we’re removing variables from the print process so lines can run and run. One anilox, one set of inks, and a next generation mixing database ensure instant colour matching. With high speed make ready, up to a 30% reduction in ink consumption, increased uptime, and reduced overall capex in buying rollers, Fixed Anilox Printing changes the game.”

Most competitor inks are too weak and out of balance to use a low enough volume of anilox to produce all colors, but PureTone’s high strength bases, in combination with a fixed anilox, achieve right first-time printing with clean bright colours delivering a Delta E < 2 and higher print consistency, all as a result of the reduction in variables.

The higher strength composition means PureTone inks also require a lower coating weight. This supports lower migration, faster printing, less print imperfections, and reduces ink use by up to 30%, saving further cost. The range also offers increased flexibility to print half tones and full tones using one plate.

“Fixed Anilox Printing takes the flexographic industry into the 22nd century,” added Seward. “With a mixing database supplied by Pulse Roll Labels, our recommended anilox, and our PureTone ink range, this system offers label printers a level of control and simplicity never seen before in the printing world; standardizing spot color printing and removing manual selection from the anilox process so that you use the right solution every time.”