A flexographic printing system comprising a print module including a plate cylinder on which is mounted a flexographic printing plate, an impression cylinder, an ink pan containing an ink, and an anilox roller for transferring the ink to the flexographic printing plate. A fountain roller mounted to the ink pan is at least partially immersed in the ink in the ink pan and transfers the ink to the anilox roller. A doctor blade mounted to the ink pan and is on a side of the anilox roller proximate to the impression cylinder removes excess amounts of the ink from the patterned surface of the first anilox roller before the ink is transferred to the flexographic printing plate.