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What "chips" do you replace? Are these the ones that reset the drum life counters by any chance?

What "chips" do you replace? Are these the ones that reset the drum life counters by any chance?

I work in a shop that has 3 Xante Illuminas. Just recently, I saw an announcement that Oki is releasing a machine (the same one that OEMs to Xante) with a white toner option. While I am not a big fan of toner-based color machines in general, the white option has several opportunities for...

Alternative uses for xante Alternative uses for xante Boat anchor.

Make them strip, too! Make them strip, too! I worked in a shop where the lead pressman INSISTED that he STRIP the film as well as plate the jobs he was going to run because he felt that the stripper was doing a bad job (pre-CTP years). All prepress did was run the film. Most pressmen that I...

Ilumina registration issues Ilumina registration issues We recently had an Ilumina 502 (same as the DEP without the feeder and delivery) repaired by the factory for some mechanical issues (would not feed--broken clutch), and the machine had registration problems out of the box when it was...

Re: Xante Illumina Question - Spotty Black Ink Coverage It is most likely the drum. A drum with 50 percent of life left gives you an image that is half as good as an image created with a new drum. Taking it a step further, a drum with 10 percent left...well, you get the (crappy) picture. It...

Re: Offending operator: Tissue Paper Collage Any spot-color transparencies or transparency-applied imported images in the file? I have found that the transparency functions in CS can be unpredictably problematic and can cause memory loop problems. CS2 and CS3 have proven to be more stable. Do...