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Re: Wanting to start printshop at home Depending where you are located, i think a decent digital machine might be a good idea - you can cut out your whole CTP system which will save you a bunch - maybe shoot for a niche in VPD, and other digital work. Just a thought - i our area there are a lot...

Re: Small Shop looking into CTP Greg we are a larger print shop than you but we run a fair amount of 2 & 3 color small format work (8.5 x 11 & 11x17) work - we have a presstek dimension coupled with a xitron xenith rip, to be honest we have had some issues but mostly they are on our 4up...

Re: General Xitron Questions Darlene, we are a small print shop as well, we run a Xitron Xenith Rip coupled with a PressTek Dimension plate burner. We are very happy with the Xitron Xenith, not quite as pleased with the PressTek end of things. If you want some more detailed info our Xitron...

Re: Presstek Dimension Moire's We had a job that had a moire on it, 4/4 running on a single color, problem was that the yellow ink was not clean enough/pressman didn't wash up well enough. when we ran the job the next time, same exact file we just made sure that we washed up really well, and...

Re: PressTek Plate Issues The spot issue we got fixed - thanks everyone for your help - just another bad batch of plates from PressTek, as for the dry-up on lead edge and sides, we are trying all types of different settings, it just seems like the plates won't keep enough water on them. And...

Re: PressTek Plate Issues metal plates. We have adjusted our fountain solution and have had prisco come out as well. We are running these amounts of Etch 2451 and Alkaless 6000 both from Prisco - right now we are running 4 oz of etch and 2 oz of alkaless per gallon. Also the spots are just on...

Re: Press Room Manager for CTP machine What plates/CTP system are you using?

Hey Guys we have been using PressTek CTP system for a while and have been struggling to get things to run well for probably the last 2 years. Recently we got a Heidelberg 5 color MO, we have been having major problems since then - we have been getting what looks like dry-up on the front edge and...