"Strip Blade" Doctor Blade System and doctor Blades »
The new doctor blade system for flexo and gravure / Perfect doctoring - at lower total cost
The STRIP-BLADE system has been developed in close association with gravure and flexo
printers for optimum performance, flexibility and ease of operation.
The excellence of this system is evidenced by its application at prominent companies in Western Europe for:
- Gravure printing
- Flexo printing
- Coating
Comparision between different types of doctor blades
Advantages of the STRIP-BLADE Holder System
- Long doctor blade life
- Very long doctored roller life
- Excellent, uniform doctoring performance
- Fast and easy blade exchange
- Many different designs
- Very high doctor blade steel quality
- Low blade price
The STRIP-BLADE holder system comprises a highly flexible holder which can be
clamped once and in almost any type of original blade holder or, on request,
in a tailored lightweight holder made of thin steel profiles.
The STRIP-BLADE holder system is equipped with narrow, very thin strip steel blades of
very high quality. These blades provide an excellent printing quality.
The STRIP-BLADE holder system operates at any normal positive or negative blade angle.
The STRIP-BLADE holder system can preferably be used in a dual doctor blade arrangement
in chamber systems.
| Holder material: | cold rolled strip steel; carbon spring-steel, or stainless spring-steel |
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| Holder width (doctor blade included): |
35 to 80 mm |
| Recommended holder length: | Cylinder surface length plus about 50mm when oscillation of doctor blade is about +/- 10mm |
| Recommended projection of blade holder from original holder (doctor blade included): |
18 bis 50 mm |
| Doctor blades: | 10.0 x 0.065 mm 10.0 x 0.076 mm 10.0 x 0.102 mm 10.0 x 0.152 mm 10.0 x 0.203 mm Material: carbon spring-steel or stainless spring-steel |
| Back up blades: | 8.5 x 0.125 mm 8.0 x 0.125 mm Material: carbon spring-steel or stainless spring-steel |
| Optional: | Tailored lightweight machine-holder replacing the original holder (weight about 7kg per meter holder length) |

