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We are running 2in one Fount with Maxxima Ink. The ink dries too quick and seems to emulsify, specially the cyan and magenta. Any suggestions or have you experienced same?

We installed a PlateRite 4300 with Auto Punching plate register 2 and half years ago and have made 84 000 plates up to date. We are now told that we have to replace both the punches. Does this sound correct?

Does anybody have any experience with this system?

We put in a Screen and never looked back

In 1974 and 1988 we had this very conversation and both times we all felt like our jobs were on the line. Talks of the Internet and paperless offices and big screens placed strategucally on street corners where newspaper vendors use to sell newspapers. The magazine shops would just not exist and...

Thanks for the reply gordo. We found out the hard way that what you said is true. We have implimented a couple of checks to control these processes.

I also asked the question: Why 200 lpi? We just had too much trouble printing with 200 lpi Square dot specially on matching previously printed samples. We did a couple of tests with square, round and eliptical 175 lpi and settled on 175 eliptical. None of our customers even noticed.

Thanks ansoft, we will look into this.

We have had endless problems with our PlateRite 4300. To such an extend that the supplier agreed to install a new one. They istalled the New PlateRite 4300s. Now they are telling us that Heidelberg Meta Dimension is NOT compatable with the 4300s although it worked perfectly with the 4300. Any...

w3112 Thanks for the comments. We are currently looking at the whole system. An Engineer from the supplier is busy right now. We have done various tests to eliminate most obvious areas where lines could be generated. We have developed the plate vertically and horizontally, but the lines remain...

Hi Raymond Thanks, we wil check all the things you mentioned Leslie

We are using Azura TS plates and expose them in a Screen Plate Rite thermal. Processing unit is a Adara TH85 with Azura TS Gum We experience at random intervals that multiple lines spaced 1.5mm appart appear on the print more or less on the top half of the printed sheet. At closer inspection it...

Lucas, this is a piece I wrote a couple of years ago as an intro to a book someone wanted to write about his experiences in the printing trade . . . think yoy will enjoy it What now? The age old argument – if I keep to all the rules and regulations that you printers and repro houses prescribe...

Thanks for the advice - We did find the problem. If you use an existing template that has had kreep applied and you apply a new value Signa keeps the old value.

We use a Muller Martini Presto

We have just completed a 48 page saddle stiched job that has a 3.5mm white border around every page. The kreep was not enough and I am trying to find out what went wrong. We printed it on 148gsm matt and it was overall matt Aquis varnished. We entered the paper thickness (0.1mm) in Signa that...

I was trained as a hotmetal compositor in South Africa in 1969. At that stage we did not even have any form of ammonia proofs available. Only later OCE and Xerox introduced the ammonia proof. The OCE paper had a yelo coating and the Xerox had a blue coating. Going back to 1969. When we had to...

Dear M. R. Horton: You have hit the jackpot with your comment. In 1969 when I started as an apprentice Hotmetal Compositor the term die trace was used by all the journeymen in our company. Therefore I grew up with this term. Everybody today talks about die line and I have adapted to the term.

I agree with all the above. Only one thing. I cannot understand why everyone calls a DIE TRACE a die line. Help me here. A dieline is an ammonia proof of a patched up flat. The dieline proof was made on a yelo ammonia sensitive paper. Before plot proofs this was one of the ways to check your...

Did I mention that we are in South Africa? We are buying new. The supplier, one of the biggest in SA is basically on our doorstep. Thanks for the tips. One of our main reasons to change is the after sales service and cost of the plates.