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    CTP Thermal or Violet?

    Violet or Thermal Violet or Thermal One of the biggest concerns you shaould have is cost of ownership. Thermal heads have rated life cycles and are much more expensive that a violet laser that will last longer. Ask you vendor on the cost of the repair for a thermal. Violet is a very good...
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    acrobat 5 breaking file into multiple saves

    Hello to all Having problems with Acrobat. I have a large excel file with 177 pages and when I distill it, Acrobat prompts for several file save, which then I have to merge together. Anybody have an idea of what is happening?
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    problem with linotype-hell signasetter

    Lino Lino It could be that you have a small piece of film blocking the sensor that sees there is film in machine or the sensor has gone bad.
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    Selectset 7000 density issues

    Imagestter Help Imagestter Help Get in touch with Digtal Direct based in OH. Good service organization. 513-942-5700 ask for Don or Glenn
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    Information

    Re Information Re Information Sorry if I was confusing, we are not looking to get a digital machine. We sell offset supplies and were trying to find out if we should move to try to sell toners to our dealers. Thanks for the 2 answers, it is pretty much what I expected.
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    Information

    Hello to all. We have been involved in offset for many years, and now we see the future of digital. We are trying to gather information on the supplies for that industry. Looking at Indigo, nexpress, xerox, konika etc. Do most vendors supply the toners in the click charge or are they sold...
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    how to choose the right Imagesetter??

    Ctf Ctf If you need to stay in film, then look at a factory refurb from ECRM. They coma with the latest harelquin rip and a year parts warranty.
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    Polyester Plates and alcohol

    pure ink printing pure ink printing I am assuming that you are using a polyester laser plate. Alcohol is really not reccomended. What you could try is to experiment and turn the alcohol to the lowest setting while increasing you water. That has worked before.
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    Need New Source - AGFA Lap-V

    Lap v Lap v Printmonger Send me an email and contact info, I will have one of our dealers contact you. [email protected]
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    Help!!! Mitsubishi Polyplate problems

    Poly Plate Poly Plate It is true that the material and chemistry changed about 2 months ago. See if the material is labeled either FRM (old) or FRS (New). They also changed teh chemistry from Type 1 to Type 2. Check on what you are using. The new material silver image area will have a slight...
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    DPM 2000 and PrintersRip how to set it to trap

    bcaldwell bcaldwell Check with David (member on these forums) from Lucid Dreams, he may be able to help
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    Better CTP Option

    Universal Printing Universal Printing Try taking a look at Mitsubishi Eco 1630 II, very fast, low chemistry usage, and accurate. It is a work horse for polester plates, and just keeps on ticking. Comes complete with Harlequin based Rip and computer plateform from Dell. Very user friendly.
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    Is it possible to run Harlequin workflow with a PC (temporarily)?

    PC Problems PC Problems Hi Scotula69 Depending on the specs of the other PC it could be done. It will definately take some time. You would have to install the software on the other system, set up your network settings, create your folders. Then you would have test exposure, and creat...
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    Dylux

    Dylux We carry blueproof paper in rolls and sheets. We work with xpedx in Canada, so you could call them and let them know your interest and that GraphLine refered you to them. They can get it from us.
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    Wastatch Separation Rip

    rip rip It turns out that the 4880 does not like 13" material. 13.3 is fine but it does not read the 13" correctly. We turned off the see paper switch and that solved the problem. Thanks BTW Wasatch was great but they could not figure out what was going on

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