One Partner, All the Pieces: How to Leverage PRS Turnkey Solutions Across Printing & Converting

If you run a pressroom or a converting line, you already juggle enough variables; registration, heat, tension, alignment, changeovers. Managing multiple vendors shouldn’t be another one. That’s the idea behind Precision Roll Solutions: you can get the engraved rolls, print plate mounting sleeves and cylinders, heat/chill rolls, vacuum rolls, and even converting equipment from a single, accountable team. Each item custom‑engineered to your process, your pattern, and your material.

Gravure Print Cylinders

Let’s start where ink meets substrate. If your work leans on rotogravure, PRS builds gravure print cylinders; engraved, plated, balanced, and finished for high‑speed print and coating control. Engineered for consistent cell geometry and long service life, with options like copper/chrome plating and micron‑accurate engraving, so image transfer or coating laydown behave the way your spec says it should.

And when your process needs a refresh, we offer refurbishment support that works on your schedule.

Flexo Plate-Mounting Sleeves, Bridge Sleeves & Anilox Protection

Flexo teams can keep everything under one roof, too. Flexo plate‑mounting sleeves from PRS are built for tough environments; heat, chemicals, constant use, while holding tight tolerances that maintain registration at full speed. Pair those with carbon‑reinforced bridge sleeves to manage repeats and tame vibration and add anilox bases & sleeves engineered with a Smart Memory™ cushion layer to maintain a precise fit over time.

Wrap it all up (literally) with anilox roll covers that protect engraved surfaces and improve in‑press identification. That’s the sleeves, the bases, and the protection, matched, identifiable via color or RFID, and built to your press.

Glue & Metering Rolls for Corrugating

Coating and bonding lines can stay in the same lane. PRS manufactures glue and metering rolls for corrugating, built to tighter TIR than many OEM specs and supported by one of North America’s largest mechanical engraving tool libraries, so you can hit coat weight and minimize warp with a roll set designed to your gap, pattern, and starch behavior.

Heat Transfer, Vacuum, and Calender Rolls

Beyond print and adhesive transfer, web handling depends on the “quiet” rolls that make throughput possible. PRS designs and builds heat transfer rolls (for chilling, heating, thermal conditioning) with engineered internal flow paths and uniform temperature control across the face, vacuum tension rolls that isolate or “hold back” delicate webs without a nip, and calender rolls built to the runout, finish, and thermal performance your process requires.

These specialty rolls are purpose‑built for films, laminations, paper, nonwovens, and technical substrates where stability and repeatability drive yield.

Converting Equipment, Matched to Your Rolls

Turnkey at PRS also means you don’t have to stop at components. The same teams collaborate on converting equipment; from primary converting machines to slitters & rewinders, custom embossers and custom calenders, so your rolls (and the frames that carry them) work together.

With Webco two‑drum surface winders and AMD slitter/rewinders, you can even standardize winding technology and service alongside your roll program. One partner, one drawing trail, and one acceptance plan.

Pattern Development, Pilot Testing & Lifecycle Support

If you’re early in development, or protecting capital, PRS services fill in the rest of the lifecycle. Tap into a deep pattern library or work with pattern development teams to create new textures to spec. Pilot line testing lets you validate patterns and settings in small, controlled runs before committing to production. And roll repair/refurbishment (including re‑engrave, re‑balance, journal work) extends asset life when that’s the smarter business decision.

For odds and ends, precision machining & gear manufacturing and a roll identification service keep legacy assets and unknowns from becoming downtime.

Built for Multiple Markets

Because PRS serves multiple markets, your team can source confidently without asking one supplier to stretch beyond its lane. Packaging (gravure and flexo plate mounting sleeves/bridge sleeves/anilox bases), consumer and tissue/nonwovens (engraved embossing rolls and calenders), films and technical laminates (heat transfer rolls, vacuum tension rolls, slitters/rewinders), building materials (embossing rolls for siding, flooring, metals), automotive (film and vinyl textures), and medical/technical applications (print and functional surfaces) are all supported, under one brand that connects the dots between rolls, sleeves, and machines.

Why Consolidation Matters

What does that consolidation buy you? Fewer POs. Fewer tolerance stack‑ups between vendors. Matched interfaces and acceptance metrics from pattern to roll to machine. And a thoughtful support path, from pilot and first install to service and re‑engrave. So Finance sees predictability while Maintenance sees fewer surprises.

If that’s your definition of “turnkey,” you’ll find every major component you need, gravure cylinders, flexo plate mounting sleeves, bridge sleeves, anilox bases and covers, glue/metering rolls, specialty rolls, and the equipment to run them, in one place.

Ready to Get Started?

Ready to leverage the whole portfolio without managing a vendor maze? Start with a short consultation, share your targets and constraints, and PRS will map the right combination of rolls, sleeves, and equipment, custom to your line, built to your spec, and delivered with the data to prove it.