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Hi Guys, Ok, working on a plan for 5S implementation in addition to our factory re-arrange. I completely agree that 5S is a great 'culture' to instill into everyone. However, sometimes communicating it can be very difficult. Particularily since it predominantly sounds very 'common sense' and...

Hi Guys, OK, it's been a very, very long time since I've posted. Or it seems like a long time. We're purchasing a new guilotine and it should be arriving around Christmas day or a little after. It won't fit where our current guilotine is, and I have always said that the guilotine needed to be...

Hi all, We've got an Xrite 508 and the press operator was attempting to do a calibration using the white tile supplied. However it then asked for a black calibration. We don't have any black tiles or anything like that. Do we need to buy that, since we can't use the denso until it's done a...

Not sure if anyone else is aware of this, but IPMG Group (very large heatset printer in Australia) is talking about a $500m (AUD) Gravure plant in Australia. First one in Australia for 30 years aparently. My question is this: What is the benefit of Gravure over heatset? Why not invest in a...

Hi there, I'm curious as to these special boards they're putting on new sheetfed presses that sit above the feeder head. On the Roland 200H it says "coverframe for the feederhead". You might be able to see it in the main photo on that page. manroland AG - ROLAND 200 H There seems to be...

OK it's a little off topic... But maybe a little inspiration or respite. Just visited printingforless and saw their new video ''How it Works'. It was very enjoyable. Nicely paced, informative enough for newbs but not too deep. The staff were very enthusiastic (even the press operator - lol)...

Hi All, Just wondering what TAC (TIL) people are using for uncoated (bond) papers for CMYK production. I created a quick 'photoshop iCC" using 260%, Heavy GCR and 28% gain. The results were ok-ish. Lighter than using a 320% of course! But not too light or washed out. But I think my GCR must...

Hi guys, Just been experimenting with some thicker boards on press today. Thicker for us, probably pretty lame for packaging printers. lol. The thickness of the boards we were printing were 360gsm Rapier Artboard from Spicers Papers and 420gsm version. They're like 0.35mm thick and 0.41mm...

Hi there, We're having quite a bit of difficulty with on press ink-water balance performance. We get water marks across the cylinder and have checked and rechecked our roller settings numerous times. They are that close to being perfect it just doesn't make sense that we would be having this...

A few people have made comments about the buearuacracy (it's too early to care about the spelling) of lean manufacturing principles and how much time it takes to organise. Some one also made the point about applying 'time management' techniques took more time than without them. Possible...

Because there are just not enough acronyms in the world, I'm going to throw in the QRM philosophy! LOL! David Dodd my question is what you think about Rajan Suri's Quick Response Manufacturing philosophy in relation to the printing industry. I bought the guys book and read most of it, until it...

Hi All, Just wondering what peoples recommendations for Colour Management Policies in Photoshop. Do you set it to Preserve Embedded Profiles or Convert to Working RGB/CMYK/Gray? Our policy has always been to convert to Working CMYK/RGB/Gray when we import images from other sources. 1. If...

Ok, I've had fairly short notice to begin lecturing design students at the local university on prepping files for commercial print. 8 Weeks with 3 hours per week of class time. I have to give them 3 sizeable projects, class activities plus theory. Todays my first day - in about 4 hours - and...

Hi all, Just a question or perhaps an observation regarding PDF/X. After doing a few small tests it seems that a PDF/X-1a:2001 verification does not actually check the resolution of the images in the files. Or am I missing something? Kind of dissapointing since it's a pretty major issue. I...

Hi there, Trying to get the job field data (in Prinergy Evo job initial dialog box) to show up on my Preps imposition templates as a part of a slugline. If I use $Jobname it returns Evo.job Basically we want to hinge all our file renaming in evo from the Job field, so our: # CIP3 files start...

We're trying to eliminate colour bruising that occurs when cutting with the guilotine. See Picture below for example. Notice the dark line at the edge. !http://printplanet.com/discuss/servlet/JiveServlet/download/7-2209-12460-749/colourbruising.jpg! My theory is that this is caused by...

Just letting everyone know that there's a SCAM targeted at printers and it's not geographically confined! We were contacted by a "Buyer" via email on the 2nd April. _Hello ,_ _I am Jennifer Miller, i will like to order some flyers and the_ _types are as below:_ _This is the...

Hi, Just wondering if IdealinkCurve will output curves to Prinergy Evo or Creo Harmony? We're now using prinergy evo as our workflow. previously we had an Agfa RIP (pre-ApogeeX) and it couldn't use Idealink's output. thx, Dwane.

Can someone supply me with this chemistry? It would be exported to Australia, we would obviously pay for shipping. Amerikal and GenesisChemistry won't respond after repeated attempts to contact them. Perhaps they're web-contact system is playing up. I would like to first test it to see if...

Ok this one's going to be a good one. Does anyone know of any filters that I can get for my microscopes on my Video Plate punch which will make it possible to view cross hairs on Thermal Direct Plates? The picture below is the same model as we have. The reason I ask is the Magnus 400 Punches...