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Wide range of Komori's will be used 97, 99, 03,07

We have a couple jobs coming up that will be on 35 # or 40 # uncoated stock. I have not seen these stocks run sheet fed before. Place mats and maps that I have run previously have been web. Any suggestions or areas of concern other than the obvious paper handling/feeder trauma Thanks

Anyone out there running Vanson inks? VS3, VS5, VS7? How's it run ? Good ?Bad ? I would like hear all. Thanks

You are referring to the wedge test. What dimensions ?

What year machine? What kind of chatter? Is it ink crowding?

We add a little Gloss varnish to metallics, it will help with transfer.

Sounds like your loyal to H-berg. Have the technicians ever mentioned a modification for that transfer unit. You could put the older style star wheel configuration off that unit like a S line machine.

Have they tried different materials on the cylinder? Blue Glass, Sphere Coat, Super Blue ?? Any changes with these products? Which brand of coating are you running?

What year is the machine? A picture would be great

I have better success with the HCB blanket from Macdermitt. Flexo type material 20% more transfer over a traditional blanket

How long does it take a good press operator to learn Lenticular and be successful? Is better to run the lenses vertical? Suggestions?

If you are going to test in a Demo room do not supply the file prior to the test. Make them react as you would in a production environment. Heidelberg had some problems on their SM with the file I supplied. Walk in with the disk. Watch the adjustments they make, and how the machine reacts...

Do you mix in house now? I miss the service from the ink rep. I upload and make custom colors in house now and it is time consuming.The money you save on ink you spend on labor in some cases.

I just spent 2 days with the Technical Director of Vanson. We talked about Gas Ghosting he never mentioned that varnish. Can you put an AQ on it. Even roller train AQ's will hide the ghost then dry trap the varnish to the AQ. We ran this way 10 years ago on some difficult pieces.

2 months in. Database-mixes are good but we struggle with workflow issues. A dedicated operator on the machine would help. Color tipping for custom colors takes a little practice.

92, 1992 ? Back then I worked in a Pressroom next to a KBA but not on that machine. The KBA had a lot of feeding issues. We ran light weight stock on a board press. Built to last but not pressman friendly.

We do not have too many color tweaks(yet). Right now, I have some colors marked PMS 123 & PMS 123 A. Saving the adjusted color formula then trying the new color as a standard. Happy mixing

I will be testing some new printing equipment with the major manufactures. Any suggestions on how to evaluate apples to apples. The day to day work we run will not cause any press manufactures trouble. Thanks in advance

Are you running a spectro device? The GFI we are running does not have one and color matches can be very time consuming. I send wet samples in for an ingredient break down then load the results in the GFI. It seems to difficult to have more than one GFI operator. Color Matches & Inventory etc.

We tested only on Gloss 100# Book. We do not run hexachrome so it is hard to compare this ink series to normal process ink. You would have to run 4 color images against hexachrome images to compare the two color gamuts. Nothing that could be presented to the sales force.