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I would rather wash up with a plate installed. Unfortunately I am stuck using 10”(25.4cm) and 12”(30.5cm) wide plates so the ends of the rollers wouldn’t clean up. This forces me to run a form roller stripe between 0.16”(4mm) and 0.17”(4.3mm) wide so that there is enough contact with the bare...

That was it. The ink form to plate pressures were so light I can't believe it was printing. Once the plate was removed there no contact at all. I adjusted the rollers and everything washed up fine. I left the printing industry 15 years ago to go into construction. At that time the only thing I...

That has got to be it. I ran another job on it yesterday and it printed great, but again the crestline wouldn,t wash up. I have been washing up with a bare plate cylinder. It works on the 3200s we have, and the form roller to plate pressures are not excessive on those machines, so i assumed it...

I haven't run the back unit yet so I am just tring to wash one tower, but I have tried putting both units on impression just to see if it would help. It didn't. I have the washup blade engaged and Im sure I am using enough solvent. The ink train cleans up fine. It seems like the ink forms...

My name is Dave. I have been a pressman in the Phoenix area off and on for around 30 years. I currently work for a small shop where I do both the printing and binding. These forums are great. I don't care how long youv'e been doing this something can allways come up that you have never seen...

The shop I work for just purchased a used Ryobi 3302 with Crestline dampeners. We set it on the floor, cleaned it up a little, inked it up and it printed great. My problem is I can’t get the Crestlines to wash up. I drop the forms onto the plate cylinder like I do with the 3200. The plate...