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Does the 3200 have a crestline dampening system? The older super aqua damp system is a bit harder to run and does not do solids well. The learning curve will depend on you. It is nothing like a copier so your experience with that is of no help. It is like anything else either you are gifted...

no 4 color. Mainly one and two color. Funny thing is everytime I clean up it never fails the pile will come all the way to the top. I have been having some feeding issues some has been cause the pile does not keep going up but I also notice I have to clean the 3/2 valve more often. Seems...

thanks for the replys. I am going to print this and bring it in so I can look at it. Never have time to dive into it. Our four color work is real slow right now but two color work is making it hard for me to tear the press down. When and if I find what is wrong I will post it here

I have an 11 year old Quick master that is having problems with the feeder. Sometimes it will quit rising and not achieve the pre set height so I do not get a flashing production light. I usually have to lower it about a 1/4 inch then it will go to the correct height. I mainly notice it when...

If you have a lot of customers that use the same PMS you would do well however if not I doubt you will be able to compete with a printing press or duplicator even on small runs. Cleaning the bids for color changes is a pain and I believe each ink kit is over $100. I do a lot of the PMS...

We had these exact results as well. The polar 66 are junk. Side frames on the side the cutter draws down is make of aluminum and bends after about 6 months and there is no way to square it. We were scoring on the cutter and broke a weld joint on the foot pedal and could not get a welder in...

Some of the 5S can be practiced anywhere. Major production floors can save substantial amounts of money having the study done on their operations and then implementing them. Smaller companies of say 25 or less really gain little especially if it is an all out push. In a lot of situations it...

We are happy with the technology we have. 2004 SM52 5 color with a coater and an Indigo 5500. Just wish we had more work to run on the machines. With this being a dead industry I dont see companies like Heidelberg dumping a lot of RandD. These companies were going pretty strong on innovative...

Curl up is going to give you grief. Right where the sheet goes into the press from the feeder board there are two brass feelers bolted with two screws each just above where the sheet goes in. These are to help guide the sheet into the grippers. Take them out. 90 percent of the time you do...

Depending on how old your Stahl is here is how to zero in the newer ones. You move the fold plate up to the scribe marks. Loosen the knurled knob and move both the inner wheel and the outer wheel till the fold gates line up to both scribe marks. You then need an allen wrench to loosen one of...

This was a long time ago and I am not the expert but we had an ECRM MAKO2 and we were trying to create a manual curve. By doing this we would read the dot and then increase the value into the calibration curve to try and create a simple dot gain curve to put the 20 percent in the middle and...

I use step 1 when starting a clean up. When using this product you should let the step 1 mill in the press for about 10 seconds then engage the washup blade. The step 1 does it emulsifies the ink so that it will not bead up on the top of the clean up blade but allow the ink/step 1 combination...

There used to be a book called the Pocket Pal. Doubt if it is still made but you can probably download it for a KINDLE

Yes just spot color.

Had to have a job replated for my Quick master 46. I am printing on a kiss cut 6 up label and on uncoated on this machine we usually print 133 line screen. The CSR wanted it printed using a 175 line screen. The job only had type no screening. We run all of our plates at 2540 DPI. My...

Hope Sappi figures it out. I want to bet 80 percent of our paper comes from them. Just got in a bunch of McCoy Gloss Cover. I told the press operator about this thread and they are going to check the stock closely before plating the job.

Indigo is the same. Had a CSR sign off on the color and about 50 sheets into the run it changed. Press checks are kind of a joke as well. Most presses take about 500 sheets for the water and ink to settlle down to get an accurate pull. Even with ink densities exactly the same during the...

Clean processor. We saw this on an older processor. After a long period of time silver deposits harden on the bottom bypass rollers and leave this mark on the plates. If your stabilizer unit is the same as your developer unit you can try swapping them after a cleaning but I am pretty sure...

People working in a chemical smelling environment don't smell it anymore they get used to it. Seems to me you will get better drying on your presses if you vent it outside. We were told this when we had our SM52 installed. We were told the fan exiting the fumes out takes moisture outside as...

I can help as well. I worked for a Printing Company that was bought out by a larger company. Working for the smaller company as the Production Manager I will use that company as my example. I am working for the larger company but not in a management roll How long have you been in the...