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I would look into the relative heights of the plate and blanket surfaces. If the diameter of the plate cylinder (including plate and packing) is different than the diameter of the blanket cylinder...

Are the streaks in the solid around the plate or across the plate?

I will check and see what some of my contacts in the roller business think about this and if they have a special elastomer product for Sakuri/Shinohara dampeners.

I have never had a lot of luck with this particular dampener design. Many versions use a bracket design that increases the pressure from the chrome (or ceramic) roller to the form roller...

Removing the gear driving the form roller on the three roller system used on the Sakuri and removing the gear from the form roller on the KomoriMatic dampener used on Komoris accomplishes two very...

When setting a Dahlgrens dampener there are only a few things to keep in mind. 1. Assuming this dampener is using the first ink form roller as the dampening form, make sure the form roller is...

For a fraction of the cost it would take to set up a web printing facility and supply it with the various consumables (paper, ink, chemistry, electricity, a decent building, etc) you could buy an...

An image (patterns, screens, etc) outside the web width will do wonders in minimizing the accumulation of ink on the roller ends. Just how much image to use for best results seems to vary, I have...

I would remove the adhesive from a label and see if it remains clear when in contact with the bottle. If it is clear, try a substrate with a different adhesive

Of course, the best press and a good craftsman can only reproduce what is on the plate. If the pre-press is not top notch, the press can not make up for it.......

The Apollo is really a web to sheet duplicator and I would not try to run any job on it that you wouldn't run on a ABDick or Ryobi or other duplicator. The bushings that hold the roller ends on...

I have seen a feeder that was rigged up with an extra air compressor set up to blow across the board (above and below, in opposite directions) at about a 10 degree angle away from the press. I don't...

I used a lot of petrolatum when I used to help out a friend of mine in the press re-building business. If you cover dried, caked ink with enough petrolatum and let it sit for a few days, it all...

Try Chinawood oil (Tung oil) or Linseed oil, both will reduce the tack and neither will affect dry time or an inks' litho properties.....

Alois,

Interesting as always, but Willer's experiments were done with one cylinder surface driving the other, assuring identical speeds, unlike a press where the cylinder surface speed is...

"The APC model of that year has the blanket packed almost even with bearer height and the plate cylinder with no packing and a plate that runs .004" over bearer height (plate cylinder undercut of...

How does Komori suggest the plate and blanket be packed relative to the bearer height on this particular machine?

Not as intellectual a source as Saxe, but the guys on the Car Talk radio program once postulated convincingly that a group of people knowing nothing about a subject actually know less than an...

"Why would you replace Komorimatic Dampening System, which is one of the finest press dampening systems available, with the patented Epic's Delta Dampening System ? "

Komori, in their wisdom,...

By whatever terminology it is referred to, the turning of a form roller at a speed different than that of the plate with the intention of removing 'hickies' or other debris from the plate surface...

If you are in the US, you may want to investigate whether a solvent distillation unit will require a permit in your area. The ATF people are sometimes very suspicious that you might use a device...

Tomatron is right, rapidly escalating silver prices will soon drive silver halide image plates off the market.

You might ask whomever you buy the Emerald JR from if they can get you a sample of the Anchor 2912 MXEH product. This formula might be a better choice (you need to run five ounces per gallon, no...

What type of dampening system does you Hamada have?

Anchor makes a lot of different fountain solutions, which one are you using