Precision is vital to ensure clear and crisp reproduction in both domestic and commercial printing applications and ink rollers play an essential role in ensuring high quality printing is achieved. Therefore, the manufacture of quality ink rollers, which produce consistent, high quality results, is a highly specialised field in which even the slightest discrepancy in pore size or density can have a hugely detrimental impact on performance.

As the leading UK-based engineering-biased manufacturer of high specification foam ink rollers for both home and professional printing applications, at Technical Foam Services we have the enviable reputation as the foremost producer of precision-engineered, technically advanced ink roller foam solutions in the world.

An ink roller and a method of producing the same are disclosed. This ink roller is produced by preheating a flexible polyurethane foam havng a three-dimensional skeletal reticulated structure and a pore size of 20-60 pores/cm at 130°-190° C., subjecting the preheated foam to permanent deformation through compression at a temperature of 130°-220° C. and a compressibility of 1/3-1/15 and cutting the resulting compression body having a hardness of 15°-60° into a given shape in such a manner that the axial direction is coincident with the compression direction of the compression body.