An anilox sleeve is a metal, ceramic, or plastic sleeve that is used in the printing process to transfer ink to the substrate. The anilox sleeve is mounted on a print cylinder and inked before each print stroke. As the print cylinder rotates, the anilox sleeve transfers ink to the substrate, which is then fed through the printing press.
The anilox sleeve is made of compressible material, the middle layer is glass fiber reinforced plastic or other composite materials, and the outer layer of the composite material is an aluminum base roller, and then the aluminum layer is sprayed with ceramic and engraved with anilox. The sleeve anilox roller is installed on the air expansion shaft for use, and the air flow blows the compressible material of the sleeve anilox roller through the air expansion shaft to make it expand and make it closely fit with the air expansion shaft to work. Anilox sleeve combines all the advantages of ceramic anilox rollers while using the sleeve itself for easy loading and unloading, high flexibility, long service life, convenient storage, high system precision, and suitable for quick replacement. It has been widely used in flexo printing and gravure printing, and will gradually replace the traditional anilox roll.
Ceramic anilox sleeve： Using chromium oxide ceramics (Cr2O3 ) as the engraving layer, directly engraving by laser, you can precisely control the volume of the cell (represented by BCM).
