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This is exactly what we do, test multiple forms with multiple ink batches at multiple times. Every three months we re-qualify, this helps keep our vendors honest and helps us maintain our Process Control Master Qualification. Mike

On SM102 and some other models there is Heidelberg Service Bulletin on this. A few things to check: 1- The over-run clutch attached to the end of the fountain roller on the operator side is slipping. You can see this easily while the press is running 2- Open the OS side cover, you will see the...

We use a system we designed ourselves. It's web based enabling us to access it anywhere in the world. It tells us when the ink, plates and paper are ready then we can schedule the job accordingly. Once the schedule is made I export it to a spread sheet and email it to the entire company. During...

Gordo is right, plan on having a foundation pad poured for the press. The weight of an 8 color sm102 according to Heidelberg is over 114,000 lbs including the two plies giving us a static floor load of around 207 pounds per square foot. XL's are a lot heavier! Mike

There’s a couple of different ways you can look at press area: The actual size of the press- length, width etc. Or, the working area of the press- space for pallets, paper staging etc. You have to remember the console and the peripherals. Sometimes the Air and Dryer cabinets are as large as...

It's not hard but Tom is right there's a certain procedure to it. I think that machine is a CP- tronic 1.03 so you should have the MID display (rectangle LCD showing press speed, degrees etc) at the feeder control panel. Basically you put the press/headstops to a certain degree on the MID (it...

That is true, nice to hear from JW! Ondemandbindery is familiar with our operation and he is right we don't really stop the presses unless they break or go down for maintenance. We stop at shift change to clean back cylinders, that's about it. I wish there was enough money in printing to...

HAK are the auxiliary drive boards/modules and HAK 4 represents where the board is- slot#4. So it looks like you have an error with the HAK board in slot#4 "FFFF" is the Hexadecimal code/ Heidelbergs way of abbreviating the binary code used for diagnosing the Initial test. 1= everything ok...

yes thank you for sharing! Sad about RIT the end of an era.. "Petty and Sons, Leeds England"- question, was Leeds at one time a large print hub for England? The reason I ask is 14 years ago I went to Leeds through BBR Graphics to look at used presses for our shop here in the States. The shops...

hmmm That's tough to say. We're all over the place in run length change overs. We average 60-80 plate changes per 12 hour shift, so roughly 120-160 plates per day. Some days more, some days could be a lot less. Some jobs are 500 sheets others could be 200m sheets. My schedule for the weekend...

2 sm102 6 color+ coater/perfectors 1 sm102 8 color perfector 3 lead pressmen, 2 helpers shared between 3 presses. We run 24 hours a day 7 days a week and will go through 300,000 sheets of paper in a weekend easy. 4 guys on a press???....man, heads would explode. Mike

We have SM102s with the old school blanket roll coaters, just two rollers-coating pan and applicator. So our setting may be different than yours. Our coaters are real sensitive to pressure so we kiss coat everything. When we have problems like this we check everything- viscosity, roller...

Good question, Image Control manages ink followups that change ink film thickness helping achieve and maintain proper color. If the press had a very very stable ink/water balance regardless of form/image area and the ink film stayed constant- the need for Image Control to manage ink followups...

We have the older version 2006 that still uses the lamp. However it has the latest software version with similar features- quality monitor, reads image, pixel data and color bar etc. It works well in our shop for 4cp work and helps us maintain color especially when running 4/4 on our 8 color. It...

nice.... like the delivery rake

Thank you for the replies, I really appreciate it.

I have some chrome metering rollers i need repaired for our Heidelberg sm102. The rollers are out of our older sm102 and have grooves on each end. I'm looking for someone that can repair these grooves. I found this company here: Hadronics – Printing Press Roller Repair, Printing Press...

Not sure what software version you have. We are on version 5.8 on our cp2000's. Our press is a 2006 so i know this version is old. To get to the screen to see the actual values and set the potentiometer I use: Service, then on the far right you see diagnostic, hit that from diagnostic on the...

Our Heidelberg's will do that too. Usually its because you have an air line leaking near an oil line or an oil bath. When our blanket washer air lines star leaking on the drive side we will see oil vapor come out from the unit. Don't know much about Rolands..sorry Mike

back in 2006 we went new. This year we went used. Deprecation, local tax law and the actual value of print going down the toilet led to that decision. Most companies have a difficult time getting the financing for a new press. 2 million dollar press usually equals 45-55K per month depending on...