05/29/2026
Gravure press tension control is the difference between registration that holds and registration that chases itself across the roll. The machine has five tension zones — unwind, infeed, printing, outfeed, and rewind — and each one impose...
05/26/2026
Registration failure is the most expensive defect in film gravure printing — more costly than color deviation, more costly than streaking. When colors drift out of alignment, the entire roll goes to scrap or rework. And unlike a doctor b...
05/26/2026
When a gravure print job goes wrong, the instinct is to blame the ink. But walk the floor long enough and you'll find the machine itself is behind a surprising number of defects — tension drift, cylinder runout, chill roller hotspots, do...