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    Best digital press for printing images that are not grainy

    Greetings, Fussing around with color profiles for the paper you're using might help, but dry toner machines just look like that, in my admittedly biased opinion. The answer to your question is: HP Indigo 7600. Expensive, but it takes the "pleasing-color" up to "happy-photographer" standard...
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    Cleaning film processor to change from film to polyester chemistry

    Warm water. Take your time and do a good job. Don't use bleach.
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    Kung Hei Fat Choy

    Happy New Year!!
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    iGen 4 - TYPE THINNING ISSUE ADVICE

    It's the file. You need to get back to the native document (InDesign or whatever, not the PDF) to do anything about it. The other comments above are also worthy.
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    Straight talk about Ricoh Pro c901 registration

    HI, Both of those should be solveable. I seem to recall (it's been a few years) having a spare freshly rebuilt fuser on hand. We would just swap in the fuser when we had banding and the tech would rebuild the other one at his/her leisure. The registration just needs to be worked though. It...
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    ink density and conductivity measurement tool

    There is a special probe designed for dropping into fluid and measuring density or conductivity. Look carefully at the photos posted. We have a multi meter, of course, but you can't dunk it in the tank and get a reading on a microscopic particle of ink. It's not the tool for the job. All the...
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    ink density and conductivity measurement tool

    HIya, Old post, I know, but thought I's straighten this out...HP Indigo Ink is liquid and needs to have it's density and conductivity measured. (ink moves to the least negatively charged area, like Xerography) this is done automatically, but there are manual devices as well for calibration...
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    Stick a fork in me, I'm done!

    Todd, and all, Great replies. good thread. I started out in a mom-and-pop and now work in an on-demand factory. Change is the only thing that never changes. Still. There are good things about lean, that I think were lost in the translation. Scientific management went to Japan post WWII and came...
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    Stick a fork in me, I'm done!

    Todd, What a great truth-telling. I am sympathetic, but curious about the specific lean management laws that you think are most egregious...or is it simply the decline of an appreceiation for the craft? Better yet, do you think anything can be done about it? thanks, Mark
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    HP Indigo Deinkable?

    Greetings All, After some exhaustive study on the matter; my report: "Executive Summary" on primary topic of De-inking: (though still basically an opinion) To deink HP Indigo output requires a further flotation and dispersing process after initial flotation and screening. Making high quality...
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    HP Indigo Deinkable?

    Thanks for the link! Very interesting read.
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    HP Indigo Deinkable?

    Greetings, Great thread. Having read through the comments above, I am reluctant to jump in like a know-it-all. Having said that, I work in a factory with 3 HP indigo WEB presses and 12 HP Indigo sheet fed presses. I am a certified HP tech, but I don't work for HP. I do sit on the sustainability...
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    HP Indigo Deinkable?

    Old post, I know, but I couldn't resist. -- Putting the CO2 question aside... if I convert a 60 year old tree into paper, and then burn the paper to make electricity (that I then use to make microwave popcorn on Sunday night)...it is true that the universe contains the same amount of...
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    New at this! resizing images for pdf?

    Hah! Good question! ;) I guess pre-press people don't ever die, we just keep posting on Print Planet!
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    New at this! resizing images for pdf?

    I stand corrected. I must have been thinking of jpeg2000. Sit, corrected, actually. all the best, Mark
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    Can you do 10x10" hard-cover, one-at-time books?

    We produce books for on line photobook ordering websites. You might check out blurb.com.
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    Indigo 3550 vs Xerox 1000 - Opinions?

    Series 3 Indigos have very good adhesion. The 3550 is a series 2, which is also very good. the early series 1 machines had more difficulties. -- There are a ton of HP certified papers these days. Once upon a time, you had to saphire coat papers to be sure of decent adhesion. -- The cost concerns...
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    New at this! resizing images for pdf?

    Greetings, Appear to be numerous good responses here, and many opinions. for the record, here is what I would do: 1) Change the resolution in Photoshop with NO resampling...from 96 dpi to 304. (an old habit)This will do nothing at all to the images except make them much more manageable in...
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    Indigo 5600 Color Variation Problem

    I've seen this before, and it is perplexing. It usually goes away after a while. I've done all the same things you mention. Usually a color cast suggests an ink rebuild, but on the same sheet...(?!) the suggestion above, to change the print order is interesting, but I tend to think it might be...

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