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I always like to use a full format 20% screen for each CMYK, it will show you every little mark, and streak and hop...

sorry about the "tone" from some of my colleagues, maybe they are threatened, but to your question, yes I would put the KM in the mix, real solid machine and output is less glossy and streaky then the Xerox, so it kind of gives more of an offset feel. All machines mentioned are light production...

I am kind of surprised all you printers are complaining about smashed and embossed envelopes off the OKI engine... Whenever I have run envelopes on a duplicator I smash the crap out of it to get nice solid ink, sure you get some flap lines and some embossing, but it is not that bad, are you guys...

Don't get me wrong, Indigo's are great, but a used machine that is not on a click program, you would really need someone who can keep the wheels on it and everything that breaks you will pay big bucks for parts. I thought you wanted to be able to augment your capacity by doing longer runs, if so...

Talking 1 sided 12x18, I would figure $40 for plates on DI, for indigo if you are on a click program .08x1000=$80, we have offset and indigo and the cutoff is usually 500-750 impressions, if it is static work and more then 750 it gets very expensive on the indigo and you will also have memory...

Is it possible that what you are getting is possibly doubling or slurring on press? At one point you said a brown would moire on just a part of the form, if moire I would think it would be more consistent, but a press problem, say gripper problem before mag unit could cause multiple jobs with a...

indigo and xerox would kind of be redundant, indigo is not going to be cost effective for static runs over 500, so it sounds like QM-DI would be a better fit because you could do long run's as well as spot work which would be a good compliment to your digital equipment, if you put in a indigo...

I doubt he is using a plate, sounds like a three roller nip system, Amalgamated has a high reactive coating that works well for the short systems that do not have IR heat, high wattage, or long conveyors for flow out...

I tend to think it is specific to the plates, I very rarely have seen blinding on short to medium runs and it has always been a fuji plate, the PRO-T would blind in a couple hundred sheets with some papers. Maybe it has to do with the capping layer they put on their plates???

both shifts image plates they are going to use, in a perfect day they stay about 4 plates ahead, if something happens, jam, error etc. they come talk to me, I don't want them turning a wrench on the CTP (too heavy handed), no creative involved just output

on a roll coater if you run more pressure it usually gets ride of the texture, you may be putting too much thickness down. You could also pull that roller out and get it recovered, some of the oversea's rollers are not ground very smooth and will swell up on the edges very quickly, someone like...

I have a suggestion for pre-press, when a job is on press and it has a problem that needs to be fixed in pre-press, please show a sense of urgency. It is very annoying when a problem does not get elevated to "stop what your doing and get me a new plate" status, because unlike pre-press if a job...

diodes are kind of like light bulbs, I have some that are 6 years old and imaging 1500 plates a month, others have been replaced, last a year die, screen says average life of 1.7 years, but I think they go longer then that even at 100%, people with high energy plates like the latex plates run at...

yeeeep, fuji plates do like to blind, you can really attack calcium on press and it may get better, but we wasted a ton of time chasing our tail around trying anchor subs, stand on one foot, must be the paper, blaa blaa blaa, I have been at this a long time and changing fountain solution has...

I have started to keep a count of the number of times we come full circle back to the first press sheet out, right now we are about 75%, change this, try this, etc... OK lets go back to number 1 (an hour and 1000 sheets of paper later, AHHHHH)

I think without console GTO vs 524 would be kind of a wash, but for all of you Ryobi bashers I have a 755 that beats up on Speedmasters in our market every day of the week. My first shift guy ran a brand new Komori S40, and says the 755 kills the S40 in make ready and color constancy (Komori...

Sorry to say but inkjet is going to be way expensive per piece with full coverage and a $1000 color laser printer is going to look very DIY or "krafty", my advise would be to team up with someone with an Indigo, great prints on heavy weight and textured stocks. (this is the printer that all the...

Looking for someone who will do spot uv for the trade in small quantities?

running a press just takes reps, you are going to suck at first, then get a little less sucky the more you run it...

It is waterless, so no fountain solution. Is slow drying on all different jobs? or just areas of high total ink value 260%-300%?, if just high ink area then you should adjust tone rep curve on your rip to make it less soupy, also run your densities as low as possible, waterless inks can achieve...