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Protect expensive anilox rolls and sleeves with the cost effective Xymid Protective Roll Cover
Xymid Protective Roll Covers are excellent for preventing damage to anilox rolls, anilox sleeves plate cylinders, and plate-mounted sleeves.
Features include:
- Easily applied and removed
- Can be applied to rolls without removing from press
- Edge-to-edge overlap to ensure complete protection
- Excellent memory, will not "stretch" after multiple uses
- Cost effective protection with quantity discounts
- Easily cleaned and solvent resistant
- Bright yellow color for enhanced pressroom awareness
- Any length available
- Diameters available from 2.5" to 16.0"

PCI's Guardian OLP
PCI's Guardian OLP Offline Digital Print Proofing System can automatically find and highlight differences in print quality from an approved master image.
The Guardian OLP print proofing system can compare a one-up electronic file or scan to a multi-up electronic file or scan. This feature will detect typical printing defects such as missing or extra print, pre-press errors, plate defects and color variations.

File to File File to Scan Scan to Scan
Features:
- Master file formats: PDF, tiff, bmp
- Verify against customer approved artwork
- Optical character recognition
- Defect chart allows "quick zoom" to defect
- Instant image flip to compare scan to master
- Classifies and highlights print defects
- Verifies text copy and graphic elements
- Scans and inspects color or grayscale proofs
- Compares one-up master to multi-up scans
- Up to 200 multi-up images per scan inspection
- Provides detailed error report
- Choice of scanners: 12" x 17" & 36" x 48"
The Guardian OLP is capable of detecting a missing period down to 3 pt type.
Detect errors prior to shipping defective product with potential liability or cost by finding defects that may have been:
- initiated during the PDF artwork creation
- introduced during prepress step and repeat
- created during the RIP process
- produced during the platemaking process
Types of defects detected:
- Missing, filled in or broken text
- Print and die miss-register
- Font substitution
- Incorrect copy spacing and position
- Defects in graphic areas, logos, vignettes, and process printing
- Incorrect or poor quality barcodes

CeramClean II, a great solution for a dirty problem
Anilox Roll Cleaner for water based, UV, and solvent inks
CeramClean II, introduced by Harper - will effectively & efficiently remove dried ink from the engraving without damaging the cell structure on ceramic and chrome cylinders. It will remove Water, UV and most Solvent based inks and in most instances will remove those tough stains found on the roll face.


SureLock Tension Bands offer dependability and long life for mounting corrugated mounts/saddles.
Features and benefits include:
- Unitized construction components for strength and durability. The clip strap and elastic membrane materials are joined together in a molded process that physically combines materials and ensures they will not separate during use resulting in longer life.
- Larger clip dimension to prevent slippage. The extra wide clip promotes easier installation and prevents slipping and dislodging from the cylinder.
- Reduced band thickness to .110" for use with thinner plates.
- Available in three lengths (15", 24", and 40").
- No metallic materials that can damage the press.
- Band keeps tight throughout print run. Wider band design and elastic membrane polymer with improved elasticity for better band holding ability, keeps the band tight throughout print run and results in longer product life.
- Ozone resistant and highly resilient rubber utilized for longer life.
- Improved Clip Angle - Easier to install and improves holding onto cylinder.
- New slot in clip for use with new strap-pulling tool makes the straps easier to apply.
- Bands are clearly marked incrementally for quick determination of required length.
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