Textile Encyclopedia
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Doctor Blade
A metal blade that cleans or scrapes the excess dye from engraved printing rollers leaving dye paste only in the valleys of the engraved areas. Also used to describe other blades that are used to apply materials evenly to rollers or fabrics.