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Junk mail!!! can get bloody boring tho, make ready, run 5 skids back em up as quick as you can, change black plate, another 90,000 on floor and so on... we have done runs of 750k onfloorwithout a plate change... gets monotonous!! (then they throw a 500 run, 4 or 5 sig sheetwork magazine with...

Kel; no we run IPA, around 7-10 percent varying with the season(more in summer to help battle temp) as its an un airconditioned factory floor... and we use bloody heaps too around a 44gal every week or 10 days on our 40" and 26" presses... i dont know what the hardness of our rollers is but they...

is "crowned" also known as "domed"?? we have metering rollers that are domed in that they are fractionally larger in circumfrence in centre of roller (only a few thou) than they are at the outer edges... promotes water coverage at edge of sheet when running a full size sheet...

set the "flush" on mid or high, and it will keep the metering speed higher until you cross a 5000iph threshhold then drop back to the preset level... be aware if you are running below 5k your dampening will be at a high level! should start up cleaner tho :) question kel: we use a Xing graphics...

LOL :) printing rule #20something hehe "you shall blame following/preceding shift for any mishaps"

following d*#ckheads following d*#ckheads Its amazing how following a bad printer can sharpen you right up... it doesnt matter how many times the "donts" get drummed in, actually seeing them happen on a machine is a case in point lesson...you get to see first hand why things fall into the "do...

heh we had a guy that was an expert allen key printer workin here for a while :) shit happens hey?

nah you would be suprised what some bosses would put up with for reliable staff, even if they are shit house printers.. i remember a bloke who kept his job over 8 years of destroying akiyamas, and still work with another who is desperately afraid of grease guns.. and he will go home if there is...

The best one i know of which was an accident was an operator who i work with now, hed fed a 17mm spanner through the first impression cylinder through the transfers and then through unit 2 on impression and into the delivery, the engineer could not believe that it was possible to happen but im...

Ok here's something a little different... usually these discussions are centered around repairing or dealing with issues that printing presses throw at us.. but its time for a little entertainment.. lets talk about the times when it seemed the world had ended, when you had to make THAT call to...

I never thought that pythagorean theorem could , or would be applied to printing!! learn something new every day :) Its funny how in every day use of a machine you rarely consider the engineering and mechanical and mathematical knowledge that has been bought together to reproduce a good print...

tell ya whats not going hurt is that i got married on sat and am off to vanuatu for a week :) all good :) bit of rest certainly cant hurt!!

Agreed. Time wasting kills companies and then no one has a job right? Im happy to run a folder or strap pallets and load trucks if i have nothing doing on my press, and have worked where running a press and hand collating short run books was the norm.. bear in mind that nowadays when im not...

the nikka spray generally gives excellent results and is a very fine, anti coagulating spray; to be honest its got us beat maybe just a bad batch of varnish it was reportedly like water pouring into duct.. the varnish run was done after the process + silver which was given enough drying...

The press is not equipped with dryers or coaters and the ambient temp was pretty low round 18-20deg c, with a relatively low run speed to avoid marking etc, and a pretty standard film of varnish applied... it did have a heap of spray prob more than average as it was to be de-sprayed.. this...

i argued for a minimum 2 week rotation, and a reverse rotate so the mornings followed afternoons rather than graveyard to mornings which turns your whole system upside down in the space of 2 and a half days.. its not worth the extra 150/week and i do believe that productivity has suffered a...

everything greased and oiled etc? GTOs are pretty bulletproof but will wear out with lack of slippery stuff.. could be the solenoid that operates the miss feed dam but that generally throws registration issues first.. put a few drops of oil in the top of the front lays could help where they...

suprisingly cheap for a heidelberg part! is that 3 different sensors(as in diff units) or all of same unit?

none of the above, just straight thru overprint varnish