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So, how do you manage the make-ready times, we have like 10 changeover(s) /day. Mike, what is your average production per week(sheets) Thank you all

Hi everybody, We had a discussion at our factory regarding the optimum number of workforce required to run our three Heidelberg sheet-fed offset printing machines 4/5/6 colors. Currently we have 4 per machine along with a supervisor for the 3 machines. Some of my colleagues claims that the...

let me get this right. You're criticising the concept not the implementer. Right?

can you explain more, will it be easy to extract / organize blankets by the way , we use rubber not cyrell for UV machines

I am talking about rubber blanket for UV coating machine. As every blanket is used more than once for each printed job (we use spot UV) and we have around repeated 1000 jobs. We used to store them in a tube shape but the stand is out of space and we are thinking of better ways to increase...

Hi, We used to store UV blanket after use in rolled shape. Is this the most appropriate way for storage or is there other techniques ? Thank you

Hi, We are a bit new to die cutting synthetic materials (PVC). We use the same conditions for paper cutting (creasing matrix, knives, cold process) and the process goes fine except that every 10-12 sheet, the knives fail to cut the material. First, we checked the material for consistency and...

Hi all, We have foil stamping and die cutting machine called IIJIMA MJ1040T(from a chinese manufacturer) . After hot foil stamping, operators have to wait for 2-3 hours idle time for cooling down before starting die cutting. We try to use simple stand fan like this one but it slightly...

As we all know that what can not be measured, can not be improved. How can I measure the productivity/efficiency of the prepress department. The variation of difficulties of designs makes it meaningless to set an average as a benchmark. So how can we measure the efficiency of people working at...