Patent ID: 9579878
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: B41F

Claim:
1. A gravure printing system comprising: a plate cylinder, having a circumferential surface with at least one groove, wherein the plate cylinder is adapted to rotate; an ink source, adapted to provider an ink onto the circumferential surface of the plate cylinder; a cover blade, adapted to form an anti-drying layer on the plate cylinder from the ink, wherein a distance is between a distal end of the cover blade facing the circumferential surface of the plate cylinder and the plate cylinder; and a doctor blade, adapted to contact the plate cylinder and fill the at least one groove with the ink, wherein a point on the circumferential surface sequentially passes by the ink source, the cover blade, and the doctor blade as the plate cylinder rotates, and a Young's modulus of a material of the cover blade is less than a Young's modulus of a material of the doctor blade.