Manroland Favorit press questions

[printerpete]

Thanks for the offer Tron.

I asked my contact about the ink fountain roller speed and they confirmed that is was adjustable. Apparently on some other versions of this press, it isn't. Anyhow that was good news.

I was promised that I would get specific dimensions I needed tomorrow. Hopefully that should be OK and I can complete my detail design.

Thanks.

who ever told you that is talking Bollox ive yet to see a press where you cannot adjust the speed of the fountain roller

[Erik Nikkanen]

who ever told you that is talking Bollox ive yet to see a press where you cannot adjust the speed of the fountain roller

I was a bit surprised when the response was NO to that question. Maybe there was a misunderstanding and NO really meant YES. :-) The person has a lot of experience in servicing presses so I would not like to say that he was wrong.

I have seen offset presses with fixed speed ink fountain rollers. Not traditional offset presses but ones that print on plastic cups. Some manufacturers of these types of presses had motor driven ink fountain rollers but others such as Polytype had fixed speeds with no adjustment. The rate of the ductor action and ink key position were the only adjustments possible.

[blazini]

Older Goss newspaper presses have a gear driven ink ball, it moves at speed with the press only. I was told that there was a gear reduction that you could engage, but I never had the desire to find out.

Any ratcheting ink ball is going to be adjustable. That is the purpose of the ratcheting mechanism.