Doctor Blades

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Consistent print quality comes from a consistent printing process. Therefore, our Doctor Blades are held to the industry’s tightest tolerances to better serve you. Every Doctor Blade is professionally packaged in continuous coils or cut to length.
We are serious about Doctor Blades. Our experienced product specialists can recommend the proper blade you need for every printing job.

Doctor Blades Options

DuroBlade High-Performance Doctor Blades

Ceramic Tip
Ceramic Tip

High-performance printing blade. Ceramic-tipped flexo blade is a steel blade with an enhanced working edge. It requires no run-in time and provides constant quality throughout its lifetime. The tip wears slowly and evenly, resulting in fewer blade changes, hence less press downtime, and maintains consistent print quality. Although the blade tip ceramic material has a different, softer composition than the ceramic coating of the anilox, the two are perfectly compatible. As the blade tip is protected, there is no risk of metallic slivers or shavings off the blade mixing with the ink and causing lines.

NiroPrint Stainless Steel

Corrosion resistant material best suited for water based and aggressive inks or coatings. Used where carbon steel blades will rust.

Rust resistant steel grades.

Call customer service for more information at 800-526-4569

PolyPrint Polyester

Material is best suited as a containment blade in chamber systems or for doctoring in a Flexographic printing application.

Available with either a square or a single bevel edge.

Available Tip Styles

Doctor Blade Tolerances

  • Flatness Maximum Runout of 0.3% of width
  • Straightness Maximum Runout of 1.0mm over 3 meters
  • Blade Thickness +/- 0.005 mm
  • Edge Width +/- 0.1 mm
  • Edge Thickness +0.005 mm / -0.000 mm
  • Blade Roughness 0.20 – 0.50 micron
  • Edge Roughness 0.05 – 0.15 micron