Harper Corporation of America hosts scope/volume measurement seminar

According to Alan Rogers, vice president of sales, these types of educational workshops are important because there is not a standardized measurement system in the flexo industry. Many customers are investing in scopes to verify their anilox volumes and are unaware of the volume differences between common scopes available in today's market.

The seminar focused on different methods of measuring such as the microdynamics 3DQC (scope), anicam (scope), EchoCheks, liquid volume, capatch and gravure scope. Each one of these systems are used throughout the industry, however, each one measures differently and provides different results thus confusing customers.

Josh Kiser, Harper Corporation's HarperScientific product manager, led the session and provided detailed information on each of these measurement systems. Kiser believes scopes should be used for process and inventory control versus volume verification since they may differ from an anilox supplier’s volume measurement system.