Jan 24 2012
Do you really need a $100,000.00 “dishwasher” to clean your anilox?!?!

InkSpec’s New Microlox Portable Cleaner allows “on-press” Â deep cleaning of engraved cell structures at a fraction of the cost AND effort!
Lets face it, there’s anilox roll cleaning, and then there’s anilox roll CLEANING!!Â
The differences vary vastly from the simple brass brush and and some cleaning pastes or liquids, (all claiming to be the best anilox cleaning solution on the market)  to actually sending your rolls out to someone who will “professionally” deep clean your cells.
In between these  comes a variety of in-house options involving capital investment of equipment, all in a platform that usually involves removing your anilox, moving it over to a blasting cabinet or “washing machine”, loading it into the machine, then waiting for the machine to “do its thing” (sometimes taking an hour or longer, depending on the roll size).
It is common knowledge that more than 80 percent of anilox roll re-engraves are done due to some type of damage being done to the the delicate engraved surface. I have personally been involved with anilox roll sales for the better part of 20 years now and I can attest to the unfortunate fact that the life an anilox engraving usually boils down to how long it takes before someone “taps” a surface while handling an anilox. For this reason, I concur with the idea that the less you handle an anilox, the longer it will last!
The folks at InkSpec (now the industry leader in ink viscosity control systems) have taken it upon themselves to identify and meet this challenge, just as they did with the idea of eliminating “moving parts” in an ink viscosity system. What they came up with is an anilox roll cleaning liquid called “MICROLOX”. Â If you have not seen, or perhaps a better way to put it would be, “experienced” how well this material cleans an anilox, please contact FlexoNetwork or InkSpec directly for free sample material and demo (you will be amazed!).
After much success with the MICROLOX cell cleaner, InkSpec has now put together the much awaited for Microlox Portable Cleaner or “MPC”. This unit gives the operator the ability to clean an anilox roll without having to remove it from the press! In large formats, this is exceptionally beneficial for reasons that are obvious.
Take a look at the MPC in action by clicking here!





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