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A home use water softening system e.g. ion-exchange should work. Look for a medium size one to supply enough water volume for your machine. Don't bother about extra sodium into your rinse water it's ok for plates. Monthly cost of consumable resins and salts is reasonably low.

Most probable cause is the PCI board not inserted properly in slot or defective. Check cable going into avantra, connectors at both ends well seated. Make sure the MacOS X is the correct version and was not reinstalled or upgraded. If still no result reinstall the Harlequin software. Keep old SW...

Check interleaf paper sheets for wrinkles, slightest creasing indicates humidity in storage. Were the plate boxes allowed to acclimatize properly in ctp room. Do you control humidity in ctp area. Test clean a plate by hand again dropping a small amount of fountain solution allow to soak for...

The main suspect is the M54 stepper motor (unload), see if the motor shaft and gears are correctly secured, look for cracked gears etc., the theory being smaller plates 0.15 mm gauge are lighter and don't put too much stress on the motor. Take a close look at the motor while activated to eject...

well the pump must have a label on it, isn't it ?

Of course not, clamps and plate counter are not very relevant as you say. My advice spend a few buckes to get a qualified tech to run a health check on - at least - laser(s), GLV and chiller.

Why would you want to use metashooter anyway ? Some later models are configured with no PIF cable, just Cat6. The apogee will send data through the LAN directly to the engine. It's a peer to peer gigabit cable... not intended for connection to your network/switch.

Blax, the pump is a Becker VT 4.25.

Alois, made my day :D

To begin with you might want to determine if that test file is supposed to be processed correctly on your RIP which I assume it's an ancient PS level 2 harlequin version.

It depends on router/gateway settings and what static IPs you previously had if any. The hosts file allows external client logins. I presume you will launch the client locally on server and feed jobs via memory stick or similar. Play with it see what happens your target is to have all server...

Hook the Apogee server to a switch just to have the LAN going somewhere, it may need the network interface active to publish the hot folders for hot tickets. Mind the server IP.

A Kodak trained engineer would be helpful but my 2 cents anyway, vacuum seems to be building up too slowly either because of a worn out pump or a leak somewhere. Is there a vaccum sensor you can monitor during the loading stage ? I keep a small vacuum gauge minus 5 bar on the dial in my toolbox...

Confirm plate dot percentage uniformity with a plate reader top to bottom on plate. Bad uniformity is not uncommon on certain types of platesetters (you didn't say what type of plate and ctp you use).

Chris, 175 is pretty much standard no worries the plate can easily go up to 200 lines. Bear in mind it's a negative plate i.e. laser writes the image. It requires quite a lot of energy around 200 mJ/sqcm so this may be your problem. Raise the laser intensity and/or decrease drum speed. Last but...

Worth checking though. I second that. Not a workaround but common practice for many.

3 days spent means you already checked the 1bit tiff file in preview and it's clean. Does the line move on plate if you select a different press sheet size ? Try other1bit tiff export settings in RB i.e. encoding, byte order, compression algorithm a.s.o.

Amazing indeed. And I thought I was familiar with the subject ...

VCP sensor trigerred incorrectly. Can be a faulty sensor or the board. A harness problem is unlikely. Activate each sensor manually using any suitable means and monitor the voltage output from the sensor. Best to use a scope for fast response or DMM with bargraph. Even something old school like...

Not familiar with these two models but generally speaking Fuji and Agfa have sold the same base machines manufactured by Screen but they were never identical. Most internal parts are similar but both vendors add certain hardware features, let alone the (significant) firmware specifics.