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If you buy a different brand machine, you are now going to have to maintain two supply lines for rollers, press parts, etc. There will be a learning curve for your press crews to operate the machine as well as learning curve for your mechanics. Are you going to save enough on initial price to...

Prepper, what is your function with the company? Owner, manager, prepress? It seems like the pressman is being allowed to run the show in your plant. It seems like he does what he wants to do whether he knows what is best or not.

What's slavery got to do with the current discussion? I work for Graphic Packaging now. I've been in the folding carton industry since 1977. My former plant was originally a Diamond International plant. I can't remember what year we went from Diamond to Smurfit and eventually to Smurfit-Stone...

Here's what I'll tell you about my current plant. I work on a Heidi CD102 which has 4 crews. 2 of the operators keep taking the bridge rollers out of the dampers. When they wash up units, they screw the bridge rollers in as tight as they will go. Of course, this amount of pressure is excessive...

I'm looking to buy a job data memory card for a mid-90's Heidelberg CD 102. I'm not even sure if the card drive works on my press. It doesn't seem that my employer has any of these memory cards and I'd like to try one just to see if I could save job data for repeat jobs rather than setting...

Since my last posting in this thread, two more co-workers have died from cancer and two more have been diagnosed with stage 4 cancers. Now all five people had 25 years in either printing or paper-making. All 5 also smoked for at least 25 years. Two of them had quit smoking for a number of years...

Green printing is more difficult than the old methods. The following comments are based on my experience with greener printing. The green solvents don't clean as well so washing blankets and rollers takes longer. Time is money. The green fountain solutions have a narrower operating band which...

Maybe he meant to say "Panatone?" Then again, it wasn't a printing forum where I saw someone add an extra "a" and syllable to Pantone so it isn't as if the person should have known better.

Or a bite out of the operator!

Heaven help us all if they learn how to transmit food through the Internet.

Folding cartons.

And I'm sure you only used that special hardware to make backup copies of your legally purchased software. There were two monthly magazines for the Atari 8-bits, Antic and Analog. I can't remember which had the error in the code. I wish had the room and foresight to have saved those magazines...

Just found out that another former co-worker has cancer. He still needs more tests to get a complete diagnosis and prognosis, so I can't say whether it is related to the chemicals used in printing. He also served in Viet Nam and probably had exposure to Agent Orange so that could be a factor as...

I started with an Atari 800.

Their site says that they CAN fix smashes. The cost of the trial is simply the cost of sending them ten spent/damaged blankets. It seems like it would be worth a try. I'm going to let my department manager know about this company and see what he thinks.

If I win the lottery!

I always liked A-Korn rollers.

The thing of it is that who knows for sure what may have caused their problems? I had a co-worker die of pancreatic cancer at the age of 50. He worked in printing for about 20 years. He also smoked for at least 25 years and he loved working on cars. I have no idea what caused his cancer. I have...

Been in the industry since 1977. Still living and relatively healthy, knock on wood. I'm not high enough up the decision making chain to have any input on what chemicals are used. I know that the chemicals that I used back when I first became a printer were a lot more dangerous and hazardous to...

Heidelberg rollers are supposed to be set based on roller stripes and nip widths. That method is described in all their operations manuals. And that's the way the trainer taught all the pressmen in my plant when our presses were installed. Many years down the road, that plant was closed. When I...