Cutting-Edge Doctor Blade Solutions

Sureprint® doctor blades are used for Rotogravure and Flexographic printing, as well as coating applications. These doctor blades are available in several varieties and edges configurations based on customer applications and process requirements:

Sureprint ® STANDARD: High density carbon steel blades with refined microstructure, suitable for standard rotogravure & flexographic printing and coating applications, using solvent, UV and water-based inks.
Sureprint ® PLUS: High density carbon steel doctor blades with ultra-refined microstructure, which allows low friction doctoring, ensuring minimum downtime and longer running life. These blades are best used in medium to long run jobs or while working with abrasive inks.
Sureprint ® ULTRA PLUS: Designed for both gravure and flexographic printing, these premium high quality doctor blades are manufactured from specially formulated steel, suitable for long running life and low pressure doctoring at high line speeds. These are particularly useful for wide-web printing.
Sureprint ® HST™: A unique offering, the Sureprint HST™ is a long running doctor blade having superior rigidity and uniform wear enabling fine doctoring at high speeds and low pressure. Suitable for Gravure and Flexographic printing, these blades offer trouble free printing even with poor print set up. They are especially suitable for reducing breaking of blade ends due to poor/ uneven cylinder ends and mitigating hazing issues.
Sureprint ® EXCEL™: One of our premium Doctor Blades EXCEL™ is suitable for both high quality rotogravure and flexographic printing, these high performance doctor blades offer very long running life, and are excellent for eliminating streaks and drag outs.
Sureprint ® EXCEL PRO™: A superior blade for “Extreme Doctoring”. Longer life providing higher wear resistance for the toughest and most demanding print requirements. Superior characteristics eliminate issues of faster wear when using metallic printing inks. Suitable for both Rotogravure and Flexographic Printing.
Sureprint ® STAINLESS: Ultra-refined high quality doctor blades for high corrosion resistance and long running life, they are exclusively designed for printing with water-based inks and coatings with high pH value.

SUREPRINT ® doctor blades are available in several edge configurations:

Round Edge

Perfectly rounded edge blades offer excellent rigidity and life. Yields good performance results and reduces anilox wear with certain flexo applications.

Lamella Edge

Also commonly known as Step Edge, the unique shape of the lamella ensures constant contact area with the cylinder throughout the life of the blade, resulting in uniform printing throughout the print run. No re-sharpening is required.

Strong Lamella

Customised edge solutions designed specifically to suit individual customer requirements. Strong Lamella minimizes print errors even in poor doctor blade settings, and makes it a little more “forgiving".

High quality precision carbon & stainless strip steel

Steel

50-125 µ OR as per customer specification

Lamella

10-80 mm

Blade Width

0.10 mm/0.15mm/0.20 mm/0.25mm/0.30mm

Blade Thickness

In recyclable eco-friendly dispenser boxes made from corrugated board. Easy unreeling, no danger of injuries. Blades are available in rolls or pre-cut to size.

Packing

Smart solutions to improve customer bottom line.
Wide product range to cater to demanding print process requirements.
Every millimetre of our Doctor Blades is inspected, ensuring a defect free product every time.
Longer life as compared to conventional blades.
Contact area remains constant throughout the entire life of the doctor blade.
No change in tonal values through blade wear.
Low pressure doctoring reduces Anilox / Cylinder wear and extends life.
Minimal pressure reduces chrome destruction and extends cylinder life.
Less wastage and rejections.
No running-in time required.
Less downtime caused through replacement of doctor blades.
Constant conditions for proofing, tonal variations and easy colour matching.
These blades come in an easy-to-use dispenser box, made of corrugated cardboard, for ecological recycling or disposal. It makes unreeling very easy, and is perfect for transportation and storage.

1Support Blades

Our backup blades are made from high quality steel and ensure that you get the right flexibility for the doctor blade being used. Our usage guide gives an indication of how best to use this blade and get optimum results.

2Doctor Blade Cutter

We offer superior hand-held doctor blade cutters that are made for ergonomic use, are easy to store and are long lasting. Ask us for more information!