Recent content by bmoflaz

We have an opportunity to purchase some additional units for one of our web presses that are equipped with Monigraf ink keys. We're a Perretta shop front to back, so I don't have much background on Monigraf. What is the consensus (or is there one) about which one is better and which one I should...

I recently installed Matchprint Virtual v 5.2 at a customer's site. They are running it on a dual Xeon processor Intel Mac Pro with system 10.6 (Snow Leopard). The software installed fine, and the calibration was successful. When I opened a page in Smart Review to demonstrate, however, in red...

PressProof in your shop running on a on a 30" Cinema Display combined with Matchprint Virtual at your customer's location is hands-down our preferred method. Save the time and money of running out inkjet proofs and mailing them all over creation. We eliminated hard-copy proofs entirely in our...

I don't use Heidelberg plates, but the concepts I'm sure are universal. We struggled with toning problems on our web presses recently and the first question our Kodak tech asked was whether the toning was evident immediately from startup, or started into the run. If it was from startup, it is...

There is a lot of great information here. I appreciate all of your responses. I'll go over all of this and formulate something that we can incorporate into our routine that we can keep as a quality record.

I am trying to document a procedure to ensure that we are applying enough varnish to our sheetfed press sheets. It is based on using a Starrett ink-film thickness gauge and reading the results. The gauge goes from 0 to 2 thousandths of an inch. What should I be shooting for? -OR- Is there a...

Craig, We always stay current on all of the programs that we support out of necessity. In my experience, CS4 is very good. We are a publication printer and we had nagging problems exporting PDFs from CS2, mostly related to nested PDFs containing transparency. CS3 fixed these problems and was...

We print a bi-weekly publication on a heat-set web on Verso 38# SC-A stock. The ink-set we use now on this stock is a 9.5 uni-tack series from Alden & Ott. It seems to work OK, but we have problems picking now and then, specifically in the Black. We have another series of Black ink with a tack...

Thanks. We've had two of them for years. One finally bit the dust, and the other is still chugging along. I would venture to say that we have put tens of thousands of signatures through it with relatively little problem. If it weren't for this paper problem, it would still be trouble-free after...

I am using a Spinflow 1000 (HP 1050C+ chassis) for two-sided imposition proofing. It has developed a bad habit over the last couple of weeks of dropping the lead edge of the roll out right before a proof begins to print. Once we reload the roll, the front side prints, it flips, and the back side...