Harper GraphicSolutions provides seminars on sleeve care

A new type of seminar about anilox sleeves produced by Harper GraphicSolutions, the technical service arm of Harper Corporation of America, initally began as a 24-slide presentation; it has now evolved to almost 70 slides and a table full of training aids.  The ‘Anilox Sleeve Presentation’ has expanded into a full day of training, including an expanded question-and-answer session for customers’ specific problems.

A select group has presented three of the all-day sleeve seminars over the past few months: two at the company’s Charlotte, North Carolina, headquarters and one at its Green Bay, Wisconsin, manufacturing facility.

According to Alan Rogers, HGS southeast technical account manager, ‘There’s a need for training on anilox sleeves because the care and maintenance of sleeved anilox rolls differs from journaled anilox rolls. The majority of new wide-web presses and an ever-growing number of narrow and mid-web presses installed today are sleeved presses, so it’s critical that our customers are informed of the differences.’