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From the top Suppliers have control and have been adding to raw costs without fail every year. I was privy to some financial information from a paper company a while back and I can honestly say they are making alot of money. Doing just fine. They are holding people to ransom In some cases...

Heidelberg but only because money is no option, so who cares how many million i must print per month just to pay the service agreement HAHA! Komoris are good presses too. I recently saw one on the way to 300 million with only routine maintenance and it would go from a fine screen to a solid to...

ive tried the silver addition method and it works, but not always. Lower screen lower film with much stronger ink works as well, or sometimes ill just cheat and reduce the ink down a fair bit with liquid/jelly reducer and smash it with heaps of impression. Doesnt always work either but lately...

grey solid or change you ruling and or screen value and ink flow may help, reduce ink down a bit and smash it with max pressure. Also see some banding there

you could try a 50/50 mix of parrafin oil and white spirits (i think white spirits) and witha paint brush apply to the edge margins of the packing about 1.5 - 2 inches until its absorbed but not dripping wet. This works very well for keeping moisture out from under the blanket edges, I was...

having a discussion witha colleague at work. His opinion was that integrator or rider roller in the damper train does not integrate the water form roller and the inking form, he says he uses it to get ink on the form damper then locks it "off" for the production run. Older style shino with...

Some really great answers. Especially the guys who are looking at "growing plants" to de-stress and take their minds off it all hahaha! Id also be keen in doing what gaz440 said doing cars and engines but you need a degree in electrical engineering just to open the hood on these things. And...

if i had an aooportunity to do another apprenticeship, i would probably go more for the engineering aspect and do mechanical engineering training. But thats not possible to change after you have a job, mortgage etc so stuck with it! not that its all bad. Nor all good either. So just putting it...

That job, 1/0 black 5000 copies. When i was in my last year of apprenticeship, this is how that job would have been expected. Makeready - 12-18 minutes. Run - 35 minutes. Washup - 12-18 minutes. Done in 71 minutes. Without the washup, subsequent makeready was 6 minutes. It might sound too...

cheers for the replies guys, all useful. There isnt a lack of experience as such, all operators have been printing for 7-10 years if not more. I find it frustrating when every time i make a change thats necessary to get a result for one job, one of 2 things happens - either it will be back to...

Hello knowledgeable people. When running a shinohara, i seem to have issues keeping consistent density, particularly on yellow. Its worst in the middle of the sheet, and then sometimes catchup on the edges. Its so sensitive, that an increase of 1 decimal on the water feed roller will wash it...

I had worse buildup on one brand of plates than another. Tried water wetters and a few other chemistry changes, but it came down to a reset of the roller train, tightly controlled water settings and a change of plates. We were getting quite thick buildup in the non image areas, made worse by the...

i was new to them a while back, was totally heidelbergised from birth. Didnt like them to begin with but they do have good features. They are fast, cheap to buy, and you can make alot of money with one of these. And compared to the service agreements of some other companies, you get to keep alot...

Id try KCMY then red then grey. Depends though, you may need a trial run to see if the grey is trapping right on top or looking right under the process. In which case it miight need to be swapped and moved earlier. If its multi pass job either way will work

Why not call your paper supplier and get a range of quotes on for example, 5 different materials, and 5 different sizes, and 5 different quantities. Then you will have your very own pricing matrix. Secondly, as you mentioned your accountant, why not gather the financial data required to figure...

id be looking at talking to the ink rep first about it, maybe changing brands or changing to a mix that has a yellow that doesnt want to pull back so much. Failing that, and depending on what kind of work you do, i used to run c-m-y-k on an older press that had doubling between units one and...

quick question, have lately had some very mottley stock, its 80-90gsm bond. At the caliper setting the print is very average. If i wind up the pressure, from 0.1 to around 0.02, the situatio improves, and a bit more ink than usual and its a sharp image. The question is, on the Shinoharas, is...

thats a fair comment at the moment, but if the situation improves and its a "workers" market again, this attitude will come back and rightly so. Some people forget that to get what you want, you must pay fairly for it

i said end of week! so only left for myself. i make a point of leaving machines in very good condition. cleaned properly and as found etc. I myself follow some lazy types who will wipe the back cylinders for example, but not acutally CLEAN them, leaving behind the whitish calcium paper coating...

hi again, also on the list, i have a problem getting a 2 colour pm's z (intermediate) roller to contact at the setting phase. unit 2 sets and inks up fine, unit 1 wont contact at all. Its getting ink via the form damper contact only, not through intrgrating to the white forme. I have tried all...