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The effectiveness of anticorrosive protection of a galvanized wire is considered to depend not only on the galvanizing process itself, namely bath composition, temperature, and immersion duration\u2014but also on the post-galvanizing wiping method, which ultimately determines the final thickness and uniformity of the zinc coating. This study describes and quantifies the resulting parameters of the Zn layer, systematically comparing two technical variants. Four parameters were analyzed to characterize the coating: the effective thickness of the constituent layers, their morphology (examined by SEM), their compositional profile (EDX mapping), and their microhardness. 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