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Fair enough, I would class 'up to colour' as a saleable sheet, our demands are quite high but I can still get totally on colour within a 100 or so sheets, the difference between 'on colour' and 'up to colour' is usually only definable with measuring equipment.

Course not, fully understood, I would have to look very carefully at new investment now, when we got into DI, there was not much competition. What machine? Very interesting, but you also have to factor in a CTP and operator with conventional. Never ad a plate slip yet and we burn a lot of plates:)

Not quite but our fully tuned DI will run ISO standard colour jobs all day with a makeready of between 15 and 25 sheets, not quite 10 but damn impressive.

Interesting, but knowing I have no plates to change, no registration issues, on-colour in 15 sheets, no stock limitations, no damping to set, no scumming risk and a 12 minute job change, I think I'll be sticking with my DI for some time yet :)

Not so. It's dependent on run length, DI is not good below about 500 sheet runs but between 500 and say 20k it will cream most other presses of comparable size.

we are in Hertfordshire, England. we could also strip the cores and sell as steel but that would leave a mountain of poly sheet. we will keep looking thanks Dave

We are running a Di press. The rolls have a steel core and about 16m of thick polyester on them, its 530mm wide. These are not film rolls, the material is silicon coated and abblated by laser on the press. We will keep them stacked as a use will appear one day, i am not going to landfill this...

Ok, i can update my post above now based upon experience, roller life on a Di is not short, it was caused by a batch of rollers that were of substandard material, since we had a new set fitted about two years ago, they have given excellent service with minimal readjustment at each service. The...

Its a pleasure Dave

No, that would be about three minutes per colour, it is very rare that you need to change more than one roll at a time. There are 44 plates on a new roll BTW. Dave

Hi I can do a roll change on our 52di in about three or four minutes including cleaning the laser lenses. It's a doddle to do.

This is not good, we have been there and presses do not like it at all, rollers shrink and dry out and electrical gremlins start to appear. Outsourcing or more work is a good idea for the long runs, digital for the rest.

That is exactly where they are pitched at, we limit our minimum run to 500 sheets and we run textured card quite well too. I doubt that a standard press op would be able to remove the old plates, clean the blankets, fit the new plates, preset the ink ducts and get precise register within 15...

IMHO a DI is exactly what I would recommend. I run a 52DI and can not find a single fault with it, we started off with a 34cm press but wanted landscape format and size so upgraded. That was three years ago and we have never looked back, we were originally a komori b2 house but we can run...

No, call the paper guy, it's clearly paper contamination :)

I forgot to mention that:- definately get the PDSE option, I would not want to try and run colour without a measurement device attached. We currently pay around £20 for a set of four plates, I think it's pretty reasonable. There are the blanket wipes and plate wipe rolls too but they do last...

I would not know from experience but i can only guess that it would not be too happy at that temperature! I don't think the operator would be either. Most Di's are happy in a clean and controlled environment, especially if you want minimum hassle and maximum quality work. In England that's...

Our 52di is in a smallish room with the strip hanging doors, it seems perfecty happy at 21-22c and it's very comfortable for the operator at that temperature too. The press runs at 18-19c on the chiller which is placed outside the room as it gives off a lot of heat. As I said, we went from a...

Go for it! I run a Presstek 52di after upgrading from a 34. We have done 15m impressions in three years, not much but we are only an inplant house. The print quality is amazing, we moved up from a b2 komori and the 300lpi screen is amazing. The only downside I can see is that you have to be...

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