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The oil analogy is a good one, but no one just just tapes over the indicator, but many people would change oil ever 3000 miles because service stations put a sticker on your car saying to, but if you read your manual it says ever 7500 miles, so the service guys are doing it 2.5 as much as...

I thought this was an academic discussion about ink companies service levels, but if you want to talk about my personal ink usage; I ran Toyo for a long time, because at the time it was supposed to be the best product on the market, it was way more expensive and I had local support. Guess what...

I had tech inspect clamps and reset counters because they looked fine, he said the counter is set very conservative to avoid any possible problem (and to sell consumables)

Keep pining away for the good old days and see what that gets you... At one time 6 local ink companies, some with good service and some without, now only two have a local office and only one of them has mixing services. Tell the ink companies that have gone out of business that the reason they...

original post was a question, and in my opinion in the current climate I would rather have a good product at a low price (Or is selling price the key and only component that may interest you? Thank you for letting your replies flow freely.) that is my opinion, don't ask for opinion to flow...

You can demand boots on the ground service, blaa blaa blaa, but I think times have changed and for general commercial printing, I would much rather have a strong ink company making a consistent quality product at a low price and have 800 service, then a company that is stretched thin trying to...

I literally threw the fuji sales guy out of my shop, he kept bugging me and bugging me about using fuji plates, which I had in the past and they blinded like crazy (and yes when problem happened they convinced us to switch to fuji chemistry) and now he will argue that the blinding never...

It has been a couple years since I had to call an ink tech, they are all gone in town now, so if and when something comes up it will probably be a 800 call. Seems like boots on the ground is not that important any more...

If the job was plated then yes you can and should defend yourself. HOWEVER, I would take the high road just so you do not make enemies. And to defend management and even production, I know a lot of shops in which people are hustling to meet a deadline and when a problem on press is brought to...

Maybe expensive, but put a uv lamp before the perfecter, change out rollers for hybrid ink?

ink is not 100% oil, so water does react with it over a long enough time, things like water activated driers will react with the water and make a soupy mess

I have not run a gravure press, so looking for someone who has run gravure and sheetfed, to see how hard transition will be, i.e. how much training will I have to do. He was running a big engraved cylinder gravure press at Quad, we have a 3/4 size 5 color with coater. Aside from the obvious...

I agree with above post. I will bath in AQ as well as any other pressroom chemical, but 5 minutes cleaning up UV and you feel like crap. That is the problem with fixating on one metric, like VOC's, and not looking at health impact and full life cycle impact. Just like with cars looking only at...

Never used eco-maxx, but sounds a lot like the pro-t, only plate I have ever seen blinding on. Some stocks it would come on in 100 sheets and you would have no image at all by 20 sheets. I have seen enough Fuji sales people to know they are taught to go into an account say how bullet proof...

you have to look at total life cycle of the products (production) and disposal of unused product. AQ is mainly silica and water and you typically consume it all and use WATER to cleanup. UV is epoxy (NASTY) and you have to use harsh solvent based press wash to clean and you always have to deal...

just have to make a real extreme tone rep curve for those dark spot colors, to hold a 90% of reflex blue it is going to have to really be a big adjustment

UV coating is NASTY stuff... not sure what is in it, but before it is cured it is really nasty stuff to work with, I would rather work with AQ any day and it is 95% water. But if you really want to be eco-safe, then don't use a clay coated stock with UV, use a 100% recycled stock like Rolland.

I know a good one in Penn if that is close?

I have seen it print ladder bars and ghost forms print better then a Roland 500, it has a 4 roller water system, the only water system that I have seen better is KBA 106 and part of that is the steepness of the plate clamp system. My first shift guy ran a brand new S40 for five years before we...

it is a beast, everything is built very heavy like a roland, but electronics are more like a Komori, i have seen service guy 2 times in 5 years, average make ready 5-8 min, almost never deal with ghosting, can mark if glass beads are old...