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    Presstek Freedom Pro Plates

    Thank you for your posts, I was considering a Presstek system as a backup for my Glunz and Jensen... another story for another day.. and ran across this thread. I sure as heck don't want to purchase a system thats gonna be obsolete when the manufacturer says so, and get stuck with a paper...
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    Polar Guillotine cuts without using foot pedal

    Yup both of ours do this too, nothing wrong.. dumb way to cut as said earlier, but its okay
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    How do you name files?

    Job number and customer on the folder, contents will carry the old original numbers. To combat the problem of the old file getting tossed, I backup different on a third drive. Drive one is in use with all, drive 2 is of course a backup of drive one. The third drive gets files added to it...
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    WATER MARK Printing in OFFSET

    Seen this done one time, offset. What you do is lightly tint the entire sheet, except of course the watermark, so basically your printing a full bleed all four sides. No special ink but I'd use laser offset ink it has drier so the sheet can be run in a digital machine.
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    Humidity

    We use the big box ones at each press, trying to keep humidity on our building is a loosing battle. Metal tinsel and static spray are our friends. Once main reason we use them is no one takes good care of em so when they die we just replace em
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    Smartphone uses in our business...

    Found it real handy when we lost our internet connection. Used it to sign into the server, used it to drop files to my Mac and sent proofs back and forth, customers didn't even know we were with out internet.
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    New owner

    You need to establish some parameters.. You are talking to printers who produce all kinds of products on all kinds of machinery. Qty, paper, colors, coated or uncoated stock, bleed or no bleed, size (of the flyer) If its folded your gonna need a folder too.. you see where I'm heading. Give us...
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    Problem with Polar 72 cutting machine

    Check the air gap on your clutch.. I think it should be .010 when off and .010 on (you will need to manually engage the clutch to check the other. If your air gap is too big it will slip and heat up. Shim with plate material or metal.. do not use plastic. Also, check your brushes make sure...
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    Tango By Dotworks-Should G & J be concerned?

    If I remember correctly there were only two things that steered me away from the Tango system. Its speed and having to gum the plates if you want to have them sit for production. Just an FYI we purchased a G & J, it took them 3 months to fix a problem with the printer. We were'nt down but it...
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    Cannot Recommend Gluntz and Jensen

    The problem that we have had since October is still going on. The engineers are "looking into it" So we've had a machine that has not been correct since Oct.
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    Cannot Recommend Gluntz and Jensen

    The main requirement that was the biggest barrier to overcome was we have to run metal, poly just won't work on our presses. Secondary to that came of course price. In the mix we also had to consider speed as well. I looked at a Tango, cheap but slow, and I'd have to find a way to apply gum...
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    Cannot Recommend Gluntz and Jensen

    I'm not bashing a product, but if I can save another printer from going through what we are having to deal with, I will. We purchased a new Gluntz and Jensen 2500 Plate Writer, the install went flawless, the machine operated great. Most of the problems we had was our learning curve as we went...
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    Pre Perforated Sheets through digital machine?

    We do a lot of this kind of work. The trick is when you perf it, you must flatten the pert or you will have trouble. We run iron out wheels on our webs, so this process is done in line.
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    File looks black from preflight to imposition when ripped shows a screen.

    We are new in the CTP world, but have a problem thats driving us a bit crazy. We preflight our PDFs (in Acrobat), making sure output will be a single color or spot color, file looks fine. Place the same PDF in Indesign in position, still looks fine. Send it to the rip, and every once in a...
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    Identify these press marks?

    This is a shot in the dark but we've had a similar problem, way different press, turned out to be the plate guard, one pressman would really slam that thing in place as a result we were getting marked plates only on his shift. A loose bracket holding the guard was the cause, not to mention the...

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