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    30 different stocks, 4 B1 Presses (Really Old, Very old, Old, and fairly New)

    Hi All Ok... Let me paint a Picture Material Types Felt Board Uncoated Board Coated Matt Silk Paper Textured Board Carton Board white Carton Board Yellow Carton Board Backed and many more...hopefully you get the picture Presses Heidelberg 102 x 3 XL105 x 1 Prinect Prepress and Printroom...
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    View Separations without Adobe Professional

    Hi There Can anyone advise on any software that will enable me to view separations on a PDF. We have 7 Account Managers and want all account managers to be viewing pdf files, so they understand what the are producing. I know Acrobat professional does it, but i dont want to pay for the full...
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    Peelable Black drying issue's

    Hi All The process is for Phone card which get personalised at a later date 1 - UV Yellow 2 - UV Peelback black 3 - UV Cyan 4 - UV Magenta 5 - UV peelback opaque white 6 - UV peelback opaque white 7 - UV peelback rollercoat sun chemical Three end of press lamps to cure The Black becomes...
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    PrePress Technician Job Vancancy at Busy Forward Thinking Company

    Hi All Inbox me if you are interested in this role...the role would include daily customer contact and you must have workflow/prepress experience...We are based in West Yorkshire UK. You would be working with a Clients services Team, and responsible for servicing certain high profile accounts...
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    Heidelberg CD102 - Print Shrinkage

    Hi All We are currently printing 55 x 90 cards 110up on a B1 Sheets, then rotary diecut. The issue is all the cards have Terms and conditions on the reverse (text close to the trim), the customer has found cards towards the Tail edge of the sheet, the T&C's are too close to the trim compared to...
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    Latex Litho printing

    Hi All Does have anyone have experience Printing Latex over 4col + release varnish on Heidelberg 102 (6col+ 2 coaters) Thanks Dan
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    Overs for PostPress Operations

    Hi all We currently have a issue on what amount of overs are required for the following processes, large percentage of work is packaging sheets Foiling MakeReady - ? Overs ? Emboss MakeReady - ? Overs ? Diecutting MakeReady - ? Overs ? Folder Gluer MakeReady - ? Overs ? Can anyone...
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    Printing on Plastic

    Hi All We currently have the need to match Plastic Printed credit cards (Printed at a specialist card printer, not by us.) on our Litho Press. This is the workflow, we print the folder that the credit cards are delivered in. The Problem is the card always looks really dull, when we come to...
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    Hexachrome Proofing

    Hi All We have just bought a new epson with all colours + green and orange. The intention is to proof Hexachrome on this proofer. How do we do this, ive tried to be very basic with this, because the tech talk does lose me sometimes!! Is there a Profile available for proofing hexachrome ? If...
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    AGFA Plate

    Hi all Has anyone run Hybrid screening with AGFA plates and has anyone has bad experiences with this plate ? Thanks Steve
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    Heidelberg Prinect - Late plate size change

    Hi All After switching from Prinergy to Prinect in the last 2 weeks. I have one complaint. If we change a XL105(Larger plate) plate to a CD102, due to a late schedule change, I feel their is no quick way to change this without going back into Signa to change the plate size. In prinergy the...
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    Calculating Print Over and finshing overs

    Hi all Not sure this is the correct area. But here goes.... Can anyone supply me a excel or something on how people calculate print overs. I guess this changes depending on the qty, ie Qty, Sheets Per Colour, Running waste, finishing processes. Currently we have 100 sheets per colour then...
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    What do next AM or Staccato

    Hi all Ok let me paint a picture..... Im the PrePress Manager ( I have never operated a press !!!) 3 Heidelberg Press (2 x 102 1 x XL105) No Print Manager only Print Team Leaders which work on different shifts..so no one taking full responsibility for the the Presses, because the Team Leaders...
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    Heidelberg CD102 6col - Grip Issue

    Hi all I work in PrePress and have 42mm Plate edge to Paper Edge, then 15mm grip. When the Job has been printed the grip has printed at 17mm....This has caused an issue when folding because we need 15mm at Grip and tail. We now have 17mm at grip edge and 13 mm at tail edge. Can any on explain...
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    Heidelberg XL105 - Slow Down Wheels

    Hi All We currently run a Heidlelberg XL105 at 18,000ph. In the delivery section the press has a set of 5 wheels that slow down the sheet (Greens bands with holes in). If the sheet is full coverage the wheels mark the print, so to stop this we seal the Job, but to seal all Jobs can be...
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    Bobst Foiling Calculation in Pre-Production

    Hi all We currently have a major issue where the estimated foil calcuation is miles out compared to actual cost. Im wondering if there is a application which can give you a accurate calculation so we can at least get the cost correct up front. Thanks Herbert
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    Prinergy v Prinect PrePress Manager

    Hi all We currently use prinergy as our workflow solution. We currently have heidelberg kit (Print/finishing) and are very interested in the complete prepress workflow they offer ie connectivity with the press/finishing equipment (jdf) and due to visit them very soon in Germany. I know...
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    PrePress Op. Job Description

    If possible, please can anyone supply me with a Job Description for a PrePress/Platemaker can anyone help???
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    Overprinting Silver Foil (Customer requirement)

    Hi all Please can you help...........we are interested in foiling a Job on the Bobst in Silver foil, then overprinting with 4 colour on our Heidelberg 102.........can this be done and does it need to be a special foil ? People have mentioned the foil may reheat on the press and cause some...
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    Plate issue or Press Issue

    Hi All Ok......here goes........ Press - Heidelberg 102 6 col + Coating Unit Fuji Plates FM20 Screening Sun Diamond Inks This morning I (Prepress Manager) spent approx 3hrs trying to solve a problem which involved working the Press 'TeamLeader'. The magenta / Yellow was sharpening up quite...

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