Recent content by kburton

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    2007 Ryobi 755XL-E+UV

    Our company is looking into purchasing the following press 2007 Ryobi 755XL-E+UV. This will be our first entry into UV printing, has anyone had an experience with this press that might give us pause in moving forward? Any info would be much appreciated.
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    Rialto 900

    We are looking at the Xerox Rialto 900 Inkjet Press, quality and production seems to fit with what we need but I have a question regarding the paper for this press. We will primarily print on 24/60 uncoated and Xerox is only guaranteeing Rolls from Domtar. The price point for this paper is...
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    Duplicating Pages in PDF

    Thanks for the offer, i just did it the long way and made each page an individual page, the did a combine multiple PDF's and just kept adding each page 100 times. Took awhile but i got what I wanted.
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    Duplicating Pages in PDF

    I have a 7 page PDF, each page is a day of the week. I need to make this a 700 page PDF, where I need 100 copies of each page. Is there an easy way to do this in Acrobat besides copy and paste?
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    File Compression for CtP

    Unfortunately that is not an option unless we pay to upgrade our RIP.
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    File Compression for CtP

    We are starting to get some rather large files being designed as of late and they are starting to choke on our older CtP system as well filling up our Backup Server. Does anyone have any suggestions to lower the file size while not losing print quality? Is there something that can be done either...
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    Unit price or total price?

    I just want to know how most printers show their pricing on quotes and if they get better results by showing as an overall Total, Price per M or Price per Each like the following examples: 5,000 Widgets = $399.00 or 5,000 Widgets = $79.80 per M or 5,000 Widgets = $.0798 each.
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    Unit price or total price?

    Is there a better job success rate when quoting the unit or per piece price compared to what the total price for the job is?
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    Roller Journal Repair

    Does anyone know if it is normal that when you have a roller recovered that there is always journal repair? Reason for asking, I find it hard to believe that they journals need much work with a bearing on them. I can see if the bearing had seized then there could be some damage but to have this...
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    Heidleberg Quickmaster 46-2 has too much water on plate in the second unit

    We have tried with just the 1 unit and still had to much water going to the plate. We ended up replacing all ink and water rollers in that unit, it has helped but we still notice that the plate when running, has a sheen to it and is not dull like the first unit. We will keep playing with this...
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    Heidleberg Quickmaster 46-2 has too much water on plate in the second unit

    We have a local company that has been recovering our rollers for years and the strip is at 3.5mm, I was just stating that we have tried to go from .5mm to 3.5mm with no changes. "Is the dampening system on this press 'self regulating' I should think there is some form of brake or clutch on one...
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    Heidleberg Quickmaster 46-2 has too much water on plate in the second unit

    Hoping someone can help here, as of 2 days ago we have been printing fine on this press but now the second unit seems to be flooding the plate with 2 much water. Here is what we have done so far: We have replace and reset all the rollers in the water unit, we also have a second parts machine...
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    Spot Colorbars in Preps 5.2

    Hello, I am very new to Preps and we are currently using Preps 5.2 and I need help setting up color bars for spot color jobs. I have tried making an .eps file and put in into the Dupmarks folder but all I get is a bar that is grayed out. Any help would be much appreciated.
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    Printergy License

    Hello, We are in the process of purchasing our first CTP System that will come with Printergy workflow. We will be buying from a shop that is closing. It was mentioned to us by our Plate salesman that when we buy this system we wont own the Printergy License. Has anyone heard if this is true...
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    Looking into Web Printing

    I need some advice, we are a offset sheetfed printer and we have a customer that is buying out some his printing from a Web printer, but would like for us to do this for him instead of the web printer. We are looking at a 17.5" Didde press with a 24" cylinder which will allow us to print 8.5 x...

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