Recent content by Cornishpastythighs

Doing a customer colour ok during a shiftchange was my worst nightmare. The next shift would come in and adjust the water, the feeder the ink and anything else that had an adjustment knob

Heavy on pressure or heavy on ink? need a bit more info thanks. got any pictures

Just let me give the register one final look then maybe we can talk discounts

so it wasnt the famous gorrukk Brunner after all?

Yes as long as your press prints consistantly at the same dot gain whether it be sharp or whatever then you can build curves around that.

did this happen suddenly of has it been happening over time, trying to help someone who is possibly thousands of miles away and not being familiar with the history makes it difficult to offer suggestions. We used to make fishbone diagrams when we were trying to solve an issue that involved so...

looks like you have the perfect set up. good luck

we had a different curve for coated vs uncoated if memory serves me, uncoated stock absorbed more ink, coated paper ink seemed to print sharper, Newsprint would be the extreme example of this I guess. If your press is mechanically sound I guess the only things you can vary are print curves and...

Is this press running the same ink density/ink film thickness as your other presses. I have never had much success trying to introduce dot gain by overpacking blankets or increasing squeeze, blanket techology is very good nowadays and I found any increase was not worth the trouble. I have...

What target ink desity were you running for your process colours. Is the ink your normal supplier or a new ink supplier (ink strength). Ink film thickness can sometimes affect dot size

You already have an Xrite how much more accuracy are you looking for, thats a pretty good instrument. They are all somewhat expensive but you get what you pay for

Check conductivity daily and when it climbs above what you have set as the high point reading, fush, clean and refill with fresh. Depending on what stocks/inks you are running change as required as its up to you when you do the required flush/fill. Clean pans also and monitor fountain solution...

Have your ink company do a grind test. Are you using an RO unit. Have you investigated your paper/board

Try some metalic christmas tinsel, drape it over the paper and earth it to the machine frame, if nothing else it will give your place a festive feel lol