Recent content by Mark Flanders

Greetings, Fussing around with color profiles for the paper you're using might help, but dry toner machines just look like that, in my admittedly biased opinion. The answer to your question is: HP Indigo 7600. Expensive, but it takes the "pleasing-color" up to "happy-photographer" standard...

Warm water. Take your time and do a good job. Don't use bleach.

Happy New Year!!

It's the file. You need to get back to the native document (InDesign or whatever, not the PDF) to do anything about it. The other comments above are also worthy.

HI, Both of those should be solveable. I seem to recall (it's been a few years) having a spare freshly rebuilt fuser on hand. We would just swap in the fuser when we had banding and the tech would rebuild the other one at his/her leisure. The registration just needs to be worked though. It...

There is a special probe designed for dropping into fluid and measuring density or conductivity. Look carefully at the photos posted. We have a multi meter, of course, but you can't dunk it in the tank and get a reading on a microscopic particle of ink. It's not the tool for the job. All the...

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HIya, Old post, I know, but thought I's straighten this out...HP Indigo Ink is liquid and needs to have it's density and conductivity measured. (ink moves to the least negatively charged area, like Xerography) this is done automatically, but there are manual devices as well for calibration...

Todd, and all, Great replies. good thread. I started out in a mom-and-pop and now work in an on-demand factory. Change is the only thing that never changes. Still. There are good things about lean, that I think were lost in the translation. Scientific management went to Japan post WWII and came...

Todd, What a great truth-telling. I am sympathetic, but curious about the specific lean management laws that you think are most egregious...or is it simply the decline of an appreceiation for the craft? Better yet, do you think anything can be done about it? thanks, Mark

Greetings All, After some exhaustive study on the matter; my report: "Executive Summary" on primary topic of De-inking: (though still basically an opinion) To deink HP Indigo output requires a further flotation and dispersing process after initial flotation and screening. Making high quality...

Thanks for the link! Very interesting read.

Greetings, Great thread. Having read through the comments above, I am reluctant to jump in like a know-it-all. Having said that, I work in a factory with 3 HP indigo WEB presses and 12 HP Indigo sheet fed presses. I am a certified HP tech, but I don't work for HP. I do sit on the sustainability...

Old post, I know, but I couldn't resist. -- Putting the CO2 question aside... if I convert a 60 year old tree into paper, and then burn the paper to make electricity (that I then use to make microwave popcorn on Sunday night)...it is true that the universe contains the same amount of...

Hah! Good question! ;) I guess pre-press people don't ever die, we just keep posting on Print Planet!