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I am the press operator and in our shop 90% of the time the customer comes to the press. I always try to let the customer decide what changes they would like to make if any. I cant tell you the amount of times they ask me what I think and my response is I think it looks great it matches the...

Hi guy's can anyone give some insight as to what they do with their in house sales people as far as salary or commission or both? We have a family commercial print company but are always at a disagreement as to how to pay a sales person. So for many years we have always dealt with brokers and...

Thank you very much for all the replies I am going to make a few calls I am having a hell of a time right now with fit on any text stock.

Are you guys using a separate system in the shop that controls the humidity? and if so what type of system? thanks for any info given Jeff.

Can someone please lead me in the right direction as far as keeping some humidity in the press room during the winter. What are you guys using? My paper seams to be giving me a lot of problems within the last few weeks as far as fit go,s on the press thanks Jeff.

Hey guys could you tell me is it really necessary to have a pit or a press on rails or is it just a convenience. We are going to purchase a komori 6 with coater just wanted some opinions. Thanks

Post pics please

We have the same setup and the same problem I am in the pressroom but I see this happening.Our km guy has not been able to come up with a fix.

We have run the same color on 2 different units to get a more solid looking color especially neon they can be a real difficult to get good coverage.

Anyone have a idea how to get rid of static in a new load of paper going into the feeder? I wind the sheets over and over, put staic tinsel all over the load but still nothing, more air in the separators nothing changes any idea's would be appreciated thanks.

What type of lighting is being used as general shop lighting? bulbs? Also which bulbs are being used over the press counsels?

Akiyama wanted like 650.00 per motor and board as far as Im concerned that is one of the worst designs.

We always put the metallics down last never a problem.

That sounds like the one we purchased they are out of business now I had checked. It's a slow runner but so far seems to do a good job for what we are doing. All of the ink fountain assembly is gone and the uv runs through the water fountain The unit is completely refurbished I can post some...

What type of ink are you using? It doe's take time to dry I have had it take up to a week.