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Hello all, Well I have a online turning, cutting and drilling machine. Which now, as information comes in very slowly, is combined with different parts of other machine manufacturers. For starters, and this may be my last resort, can someone identify those drill-heads manufacturer. Made In...

Hello all, I need help defecting this problem and I do not have wiring diagram or any manual whatsoever. Machine was installed. Started testrun, pallet with sheets were loaded and it run 4-6000 sheets, fold was nearly perfect and everybody was happy. Pallet was left hanging there maybe 2-3000...

Hello everyone, Is someone here familiar with Kugler bindery equipment? regards, ​​​​​​​ron

Hello, Considerin moving from regular sheet/web offset to printing on tin plated steel. Anyone here familiar with printing on metal? Regards, Ron

Hello all, I have been recently assigned to another position in our company We run four unit heatset machine. Here is pretty messed up system right now on how much paper is used to actually for printing, how much paper stays on reel endings after splicing and how much paper is taken off the...

Hello We got down air temperatrure in pressrooom, but the humididy has lowered considerably. I am looking for cheapest/easiest solution to raise humidity for a 6 month period, before making bigger investment to a more complex system. All your thoughts and suggestions will be highly appreciated...

Hello How to properly adjust hotmelt two side gluing unit wheels, when wheels and the knife is worn out. Until new parts arrive, do I just let the knives and wheels contact eachother and make at leastsomekind glue line appeare on both sides? Is there a somekind guide on adjusting wheel and...

Hello everyone Sometimes there is a small battle between pressman and the customer, customer says, that his proofs are absolutely OK, proofs are printed using correct profiles, everyting is calibrated and etc. But lets say, that somehow press is printing everyting correctly, to the same...

Hello What could cause gain to be higher on back side, allways 5-11%. Should we make different profiles, when printing on back side? Is this a common problem? Regards Ron

Does changing Polar 78 clutch/break pads require special know-how or can it be done by any printhouse mechanic who just is not familiar Polar cutters? Can anyone give advice on this? Thanks, ron

Can someone suggest good freeware program that can be used for planning printing and bindery equipment maintenance? Ron

Hi to all, i was trying to ask a question here a while ago, and it came out badly, that even I could not understand what exactly was i asking for, sorry for that and no more coming from late night partys and typing questions here on PrintPlanet :o But Id really like to understand what kinda...

Hi Everyone, have been trying to figure this out... Standart WEB Heatset press with 4/4, (blanket cylinders are with gap) with a dryer is starting production. at 1500 iph infeed increases tension between infeed and Chill rollers to a pre determined value. all ink/water rollers and impression...

Hello everyone, I have seen many different heatset presses and pressmen who all have different settings for their chill rolls, some reduce their speed, some increase for various different reasons. There is a tension meter after chill rollers but, it only measures web tension between chill roll...

Hi all, we run 4 unit web-press, as the paper stretches during printing process, we put little plastic wheels underneath the paper to compensate stretching. Sometimes it just is not enough. I know there is a way to stretch an image on the plate already in prepress, but I am having trouble...

Hi to all, been looking for web offset related forum for a long time I have some strange problems on my press. On our press it looks like the dot gain has a mind of its own, one day the gain on 50% area is 15%, next day the gain on the same area and the same paper is 25%. (similar job) Ink...