Good evening.
The press I'm running at the moment is a shinohara 52 with auto blanket/roller wash.
I had previously been using Varn envirowash, but have since found out its health and enviromental properties arn't the greatest.
Now I have been trialing some Bottcher feboclean BIO-3
100 %-vegetable-based, VOC-free, water-miscible wash with very strong cleaning power and a minimum evaporation rate; low quantity consumption, short washing times and low discard costs. (flash point approx. 180 °C)
(normaly used in auto wash units in a heat set machine)
The wash cycle for the varn would be this
9 solvent squirt cycles finished off with 2 water squirt cycles
now the bio-3 is
9 solvent squirt cycles and 9 water squirt cycles.
Now the problem is that even after 9 water cycles the rollers don't seem to want to ink up and if I take a print i get tinting over a lot of the page indicating that there is still residue left on the rollers.If I only ran 2 water cycles the rollers would not ink up at all.
The bio-3 nearly washes up as good as the VARN enviro wash and it only needs half the amount squirted on each time due to zero evaporation. So the cost saving and health factor is fantastic, But its soon getting to the point that anymore water cycles the time wasted will incure more $$$ lost then just using the enviro from varn
But is this normal for a 100% vegetable based wash to leave a residue on the rollers? (please note the rollers don't feel greasy after the wash)
the varn didn't even need a water cycle after it and it would ink up fine.
Any help or idea's would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks.
Luke
The press I'm running at the moment is a shinohara 52 with auto blanket/roller wash.
I had previously been using Varn envirowash, but have since found out its health and enviromental properties arn't the greatest.
Now I have been trialing some Bottcher feboclean BIO-3
100 %-vegetable-based, VOC-free, water-miscible wash with very strong cleaning power and a minimum evaporation rate; low quantity consumption, short washing times and low discard costs. (flash point approx. 180 °C)
(normaly used in auto wash units in a heat set machine)
The wash cycle for the varn would be this
9 solvent squirt cycles finished off with 2 water squirt cycles
now the bio-3 is
9 solvent squirt cycles and 9 water squirt cycles.
Now the problem is that even after 9 water cycles the rollers don't seem to want to ink up and if I take a print i get tinting over a lot of the page indicating that there is still residue left on the rollers.If I only ran 2 water cycles the rollers would not ink up at all.
The bio-3 nearly washes up as good as the VARN enviro wash and it only needs half the amount squirted on each time due to zero evaporation. So the cost saving and health factor is fantastic, But its soon getting to the point that anymore water cycles the time wasted will incure more $$$ lost then just using the enviro from varn
But is this normal for a 100% vegetable based wash to leave a residue on the rollers? (please note the rollers don't feel greasy after the wash)
the varn didn't even need a water cycle after it and it would ink up fine.
Any help or idea's would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks.
Luke