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We use Bottcher now and do febo and calcium fix at least once a week.

Well we have done tracking over a few years and found that in our scenario this works best. There is always a balance with rollers between cost, scheduling, and performance. We have a tighter tolerance on our inkers because that is what we have found our durometer increase to be over our...

here is a pic of the problem... no fighting boys!!!!

To find out your optimal replacement time use a durometer gauge to check the durometer when you are putting fresh rollers in. We use a 5 point increase on our ink rollers and a 7-10 point increase on our water rollers for a benchmark as to when they need to be replaced. This only has to be done...

Does anyone have any experience with this software? If so, please tell me about your experiences... both positive and negative ones are welcomed. I would like to know how different companies are utilizing this software. thanks Jeremy

Hi all, We recently tested the Toyo Hyplus 100 series but decided to go with a different ink from a different manufacturer. We have about 60 to 80 pounds left of each color and I feel like I shouldn't just throw it away. Would this be of any use to anyone? If you are interested let me know...

We have a magnus 800 plate setter. I emailed kodak and they recommended changing out our chemistry just like Kevin had suggested and trying that out on a job. This helped a little but did not get rid of the lines completely. A kodak rep is coming in tomorrow to check out our laser settings and...

We have been sporatically getting lines on our plates that show up when on the press. These lines are evenly spaced and are what I believe to be lines caused by the laser. We see it show up on jobs in screens and darker images. However, when I clean the plate I can not see the lines. The lines...

The pH levels in fountain solution have gone from 3.5 (about five years ago) to around 5.5 now mostly due to the alkalinity of the paper that is used today. Fountain solution that is too acidic can break down paper and cause contamination in your water system and/or rollers. A more neutral pH...

Yes we are using the PDC-SII scanning system.... We use a custom made workflow that does not currently support any tracking system. I know PDC-SII pretty well but there may be something useful within it to help me out that I(we) don't know about. Spot-On was the best software that we have used...

Hi All, I am looking for ideas for a way to efficiently track the performance of your profiles. We use pdc-s scanning software to scan our press sheets but it is rather obnoxious to extract the information after the fact. Currently, we have the pressman write down on a tracking label the...

PACH, Kodak is up right now and they are doing just that. We will be testing a plate on press to see if adjustments are working. Any idea if tbirk1 did the same? Ian

I have a Tech coming up today to work on the same problem. Our banding you can see on the plate itself, how did Kodak fix the laser related issue?

Yes we are having similar issues but have had our kodak tech come in and check everything and said it was fine. We are also seeing toning on the plates during a makeready making ink and water balance a challenge. We are trying to remedy the problem by changing fountain solution this coming week...

We are testing lenticular on a conventional non uv press and are getting an odd pattern on the sheet when putting down the first hit of opaque white. We are getting lines of circles going from gripper to tail that look a little bit like offset but the pattern is throwing me for a loop. The lines...

Thanks for your reply Todd. Can you tell me what type of paper you are using? I haven't been able to find a sheet with a b* lower than a -3.8. We are switching to an eye 1 instead of a dtp70 for a few reasons and hope that this along with using the right paper will help us out. Jeremy

What I think I am seeing is the addition of dots in lower percentage areas to compensate for the stock difference. Our press sheet specs out to l 92.5 a 1 b -4. So we have a bluish/red paper that is darker than the spec. I'm thinking that the Curve2 software is reading lower percentage areas as...

We are building curves based on the G7 methodology using paper that is not G7 compliant. How can we tell the software the lab value of the paper so that it can account for it in the curve. The reason I am asking is that we are seeing more ink put into the quarter tones and lower in the curve and...

We are targeting the GRACoL colorspace...

Check out a company called GTI at GTI Color Viewing Products and Systems. That is where we get ours from.