Digital BW, The Print

That's exactly what it is...in fact it is the devise that is used to make
most of our inkjet coated papers.  Rod coating is one of the most common
techniques (along with the air knife) for production coating.  The key with
a Mayer rod is to select the correct one for the viscosity and desired film
thickness of the final coating...that's what I've done...its a lot of
work...but the final results are worth it.

Robert

On 9/23/02 10:00 AM, "Mark Tucker" <mtucker508@...> wrote:

> --- 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
> 
> 
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