Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> > ... "Mayer Rod" ... I'm curious to see what it looks like.
> 
> See: http://www.buschmancorp.com/faq.asp  for a good diagram.


Surely, the Mayer rod is not what this says it is:

"What is a wire-wound metering rod?
A wire-wound metering rod, often called a mayer rod after it's inventor, Charles 
Mayer, is a stainless steel rod around which stainless steel wire is tightly 
wrapped. The wound wire creates a thread that is always the same profile (a half 
circle). Wire size is determined by the diameter of wire wrapped around the rod. 
These rods are usually chrome plated to extend working life. Wire-wound rods 
are used on coating machines to apply pigments and other coatings onto various 
web surfaces."

I pictured the Mayer Rod as more like what they call a Smoothing Rod, which is 
the next one down on that page. Seems like their Mayer rod would leave the 
groove marks on the print.

MT