Recent content by lostmind

Hi all! Would someone be so kind as to instruct me on how to make the change from Sonora XP plates to Sonora XTRA plates on the platemaker computer? Kodak dialed in and made the change over a year ago and told me what to do but we haven't received XTRA plates until today and being so long ago...

This is an easy question and not to sound like an idiot...The counter on our Komori Lithrone 28 on the upper left side of our press reads about 23.5m impressions. Being that it's 25 years old, I would assume it has gone around the clock once and would be at minimum 123.5m impressions am I...

We actually have a couple Windmills. The press I'm referring to I'm told has 47m impressions. The counter says 23.5m but I was told to double that which I'm not sure why. It's a Komori Lithrone 28.

Thanks Gordo! Appreciate the help. I do remember the days of using a densitometer to measure the plates...just a long time ago. Question to all...what do you consider an "old" press? Owner thinks 25 years is too old to fix.

Thanks everyone for your responses. Gordo, I just recently found an unused test plate wrapped in paper next to my desk and the wall but there's nothing written anywhere or a sample of anything. I really don't remember when it was put there or by whom. My pressman has been pushing the owner about...

No, I do agree with you regarding in the event that there is an issue with the laser although the Kodak guy that did the last PM really didn't offer much of an explanation as to test for it. Unfortunately we didn't keep a test plate or sheet to go by. As far as the pressman goes, he's all over...

Hi Gordo. What I mean is in the "old days" we had to read the dots on the plates making sure the screen percentages were correct and if not, we made appropriate adjustments. My understanding with the Sonora process free plates (and maybe other brands) that this is no longer required correct...

We're running Prinergy and Prinergy EVO with an Acheive Platesetter. I've asked this question of printing friends before and not really gotten an answer. Do you need to calibrate the Sonora plates occasionally and if so, what's the process? I used to calibrate plates all the time when I had...

Thanks! I'll have to check it out!

Hi all! We're printing this big solid (PMS) blue pocket folder and it was brought up that we should do a bump plate. Now, I haven't done a bump plate for many years and the pressman asked for a 90% and a 10 or 20% tint plate. From what I can remember, the original plate needs to be 100% and the...

As a prepress person, this is not usually my task until the new owner asked me to look into it. We are looking to get replacement stitcher heads for our Horizon Collator. The heads are Hohner 48/5 S. I've found a number of used ones on eBay for around $420. Problem of course on eBay is you don't...

Let me ask you a question...Your pressman and bindery person (the die cutter) have nothing to do. A job comes in that you print every year. A new owner comes in and finds the job under-quoted by their estimation approximately $400. The customer balks at the increase. Would you not take the job...

Does anyone know if there is a Workshop Client available for Prinergy 8.3 on the PC and will it run on the newer versions of Windows? Thank you!

Let me start at the main issue and see if something's wrong in the settings setup. For some reason, every few month's something goes wrong with the network, and some computers in the workplace lose their TCP/IP settings and I go in a fix them. Easy. This is now happening to the Prinergy Server...

Quick question. Do you have your Prinergy server set up for internet access? I've never had to before that I know of but the last 2 months I haven't been able to start Prinergy because it "Can't verify the license". This has been happening at the first of the month. Today, I couldn't login to...