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    graveyard shifts

    This thread has brought back some memories for me! At the last swing shift pressroom I worked, the usual rotation was 8a-8p for six days, then in Sunday night at 8p-8a till Fri night- two weeks a whack. Out of 12 men on two presses round the clock over a two year period, only two of us managed...
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    graveyard shifts

    Best advice I have is to swap your whole schedule over. Sleep till you have to get up for work, and when you get home spend a normal amount of time doing other things just like a day shift. When you get home, a really good workout helps tremendously. Eat well, cut out the crap and fast-foods...
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    Xeikon

    There are lots of advantages to the design. The paper drives the photoconductors and establishes the timing. I have seen NO other digital press that can match Xeikon for color to color and especially front to back registration. Many of our jobs do not need to go through a pre-press dept due to...
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    Looking for "green" coatings.

    I've been tasked with trying to find green coating alternatives for our digital press product. Are there any good sources of information for short-run offline coating options that are also green? My web searching has turned up a few stand alone aqueous coating systems, but I'm trying to leave no...
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    Xeikon

    Our shop has a Xeikon 5000 (reconditioned), and two new 6000's. We paid approx 325,000 for the 5000, the 6000's go for approx 725,000. The newest 8000's are pushing a million. They are true workhorses. If you don't need the speed or substrate flexibility there are probably cheaper alternatives...

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