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Let me check on what bars use .

Air bladder is most likely on its way out. hold on to your seat when you price a new bladder. RJ

All our Heidlebergs run none intergraded 2 - 40" and 6 col SM 52. You will defiantly have better ink water balance. Less colour issues. Your plates should open up quicker. RJ

I am assuming you do strip search at the start of setting up the scanner. We had this issue to day.The operator put in the unit positions blk 1 cyan 2 mag 3 yellow 4 special 6.for some reason it switched the cyan to 6 and the special 3 once I put it back it was ok. I mentioned these scanners...

You have to start with a solid not a screen there cannot be any toning on edge of sheet if there is use white out in front of the solid bar. We have to do this on foil board all the time. Registration has to be good for these bars to read correctly. These scanners are a bit fussy everything has...

We run 2 40” and 73” presses.scratching usually comes from miss handling the plates. As far as fount changing colour are always has a pink hue no issues. We run two flow clears and have not drained out tanks in 5 months. We run Conventional and Full UV inks with no issue. No Bs. we do not put...

I will get back to you I have a good working unit in the travelling case. [email protected]

Gordo any advise coming from litho. I am technicaly sound and very involved in our G7 colour managment . How is the transition? I 54 and nerve are setting in .I enjoy the industry but change will good. Bob M

Hi there , Any advise for me as I am possible looking at making the move to Flexo. I have been managing litho for 15 years and may have a opportunity to make the change . Thank you. R

We are running the Sonora X on 2 40" Heidelbergs and 73" Roland with very little issues no different than a conventional plate .We go in and out of UV. we have a flow clear filtration on our water tanks and have not drained in 6 months running 3 Shifts.I manage the plant so I see all the issues...

We have been running Kodak Sonora for 5 years and have not needed to use a plate reader. We find the plate to be very consistent day to day .We use Alwan print verifier every day so we can check how the presses are printing.This is also useful when you want to verify any new consumable .We run...

We have an indigo 12000. We use Alwan Print verifier on every job.There is small colour bar we it on every job.The operator used the Xrite i1iO to scan and adjusts the 50% dot on the press. As long as the 50% is good we run. Once the scan is complete we save a sheet and save the report on the...

I would like some input on an off line scanner .I am looking at Xrite Easytrac vs Techkon spectrodrive .Any pros or cons on both . RJ

This defect is a roller finishing issue on the final polish I have seen this a few times .No issue with roller maintenance or ink as roller company will try to pass the blame .I have seen this in all positions even pan roller .You may have an issue seeing the problem when installing the roller...

I am very surprised to here IPA is still a converrsation .I have not run any Alcohol since the late 90's.We run multiple presses with sonora with uv and conventional and run a large assortment of stock with with good success that being said we have a great group of pressman and great support...