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your tendsetter has an optic that measures the flex of the plate on the drum caused by centrifugal forces excreted on the plate by the spinning drum, this lens measures ahead of the exposure beam by approximately the width of 1 of the converged 7 laser beams, i will find more data for you, i...

It is was this thread that prompted my question, at what point is there over saturation in the standards, when Fogra and ISO certify products and procedures, both set measurable standards and are oftern quoted well out of context. regards Maas

Afternoon I am intrigued to learn the history of Fogra and ISO in the prepress and print industry, i read somewhere Fogra dates back to 1951, would appreciate any and all information. thank you regards Maas

Are you sending multiple pages at once or individual PDF's?, What it sounds like is that you have multiple copies of the same font. The printer is then trying to use only one copy which may or may not contain all the characters needed, When you run your Pitstop preflight, it will list all the...

something like this maybe; Adstream | Advertising workflow and media management widely used subscription based service in Australasia

Afternoon Our heatset plant (turn over $50million) became duel certified last year (FSC and PEFC), I project managed this process which was not all that difficult, i relied initially on our paper merchants to check that the paper work i would be submitting was in order and also on our MIS...

What head does your Trendsetter have, F speed?

Or the "CA" standard ( commercially Acceptable)

Quite a broad scope but also include the cost of a maintencnace schedule in terms of downtime and manpower, any service contracts on the equipment, a higher screen frequency will impact on output of plates as well. regards Maas

Thanks you for your reply, PM send, my first question is around the USM settings, i would like some advise on preferred newsprint and heatset settings, i dont understand what the values in the software i.e. kernel size refer too. ( amd yes i have read the manual....) and how to apply these to...

Any members familiar with Agfa Optiink and willing to be a sounding board, i have several questions regarding newsprint and heatset work flows. thank you in advance regards Maas

how will the tsunami in Japan effect the price of paper given the significant volume of offset paper manufactured in the area worst affected by this disaster

Afternoon We have had an issue with our Opti Ink server, the images supplied in Arkitek pages have lost their saturated colours and look a dull grey, we have switched Opti Ink off until this is resolved I am not convinced server based management systems can function one day and not the next...

some more suggestions. - get a grind test done on the ink - if you have ink filters on your tower check them for debris - look at the worn plate under a 100x scope and see if the wear is mechanical i.e. grooves and metal being moved around on the plate - record batch numbers of your plate and...

have you check your clearances, cylinder to blanket, undercut?, no rollers out of round? regards Maas

Afternoon We ran the press test, very successfully i may add, no issues realy other than loosening up the secont rollers in the folder, ran A Gracol G7 test page concurrently with TVI of 240%. due to the lack of absorption of water registration to the image on newsprint may go out as the paper...

gents Thank you both for your input, Steve we have a great relationship with Agfa and are committed to trailing the Sublima product after we have tried pure FM first, we will involve all vendors ( ink, fount etc) in this process as well as a team of staff with a can do attitude. Gordo i am...

Gents I stand corrected, we were running 200 plates per hour at 100lpi/1016 DPI, we changed to 110LPI/1270DPI and run 185 plates per hour. The project is currently at its infancy and first and foremost we want our vendors to be on board, my initial opraoch to Agfa was along the lines of " we...

We are about to undertake a similar test, on newsprint using a Goss HT70 press. We have Agfa Polaris platelines and Harlequin 8 rips, currently we produce 10000 plates per week at 200 per hour, our Agfa representative tried to push the Sublima xm sceening solutions stating the FM screening at...

I suggest you first distinguing what the marking is, i.e. if its oil or dirt. have a smaple analysed in a lab Also see if the location is aproximately the same everytime and going with the rotation or against it If its oil; take out the web and run the press ( clean it first) and look for oil...