Flatline Your Viscosity for Better Quality and a Stronger Bottom Line
Improved print quality, ink and solvent saving, and reproducibility on re-runs all result from Graymills/Fasnacht “Flatline” Automatic Viscosity Controls. Increased profits flow right to the bottom line when your ink is properly controlled for viscosity, temperature and pH.

Better Print Quality
Viscosity control is essential for maintaining print quality. Variation in viscosity causes a significant change in both solvent and water-based ink properties affecting reproducibility, colour, printability, fade resistance, and drying. And measuring the ink that is going to the print deck, rather than the ink that is in some corner of your tank, ensures that the viscosity you set is the viscosity you are printing with.

Better Bottom Line
Printing with ink that is at the wrong viscosity harms more than just quality. Poor viscosity management drives up usage of expensive ink and solvents, reducing the profit on a printing job. Waste on start-up, in set-up time and production runs is minimized. Material rejected due to poor quality is reduced.

Better Environment
Lowering the use of ink and solvents and minimizing waste is not only good for your bottom line, it's good for the environment.

Frees Operator's Time
Press rooms are busy. Eliminating manual viscosity control leaves more time for operators to focus on other tasks.

More Than Just Viscosity
The Graymills/Fasnacht “Flatline” Viscosity Control System does more than just control viscosity. It can, with optional components, measure and control ink level and heat or chill your ink to its proper temperature.

Accurate
The Graymills/Fasnacht “Flatline” Automatic Viscosity Control System is more accurate and consistent than manual cup readings. Unlike in-tank viscosity units, where you're never sure what ink is being measured or its condition, the “Flatline” system measures the ink on its way to the print deck–the same ink that you will soon be printing with.

Versatile
The Graymills/Fasnacht “Flatline” Automatic Viscosity Control System goes beyond viscosity and pH control. You can easily add temperature control, ink level and solvent mixing.

Self-Cleaning
The “Flatline” system cleans itself during normal running. Additionally, an end-of-run self-cleaning cycle readies the sensor for shutdown or changeover. Compare this to the downtime necessary to clean in-tank viscometers.

Simple but Flexible
The unit is simple to use as a basic viscometer but comes with the ability to retain colour
settings for repeat projects, and customize colours, jobs and the sensor itself to operator
preferences. Adjustable parameters include:

Set values for viscosity, pH, temperature and ink level.
Calibration with respect to type of measurement cup (Zahn, Shell, DIN, etc.).
Temperature compensation of viscosity measurement.
Adjustment of cycle times for measurement and regulation.
Quantities of solvent added during viscosity regulation.
Automatic cleaning cycle parameters.
Definition of alarm functions.

winFKR PC Control
Run the unit from a local control panel or from a central PC. Or both. Get job-run history printouts to provide to your customers.