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When printing black on flap, some envelopes want to hit the other three drums and smear the toner, anyone have a workaround?

Looking at a true flatbed and like the table height and pin system and being able to use jigs with many smaller pieces, but it would be nice to be able to run rolls, who has strong opinions for one system over the other?

I have not run a gravure press, so looking for someone who has run gravure and sheetfed, to see how hard transition will be, i.e. how much training will I have to do. He was running a big engraved cylinder gravure press at Quad, we have a 3/4 size 5 color with coater. Aside from the obvious...

thinking of replacing Horizon 20A with Duplo system 5000, mainly want more speed, I think automation is a wash between the two, down the road would like to add 2 knife trim unit, which would really drive up production, if you have a 5000 please tell me likes / dislikes???

Looking for someone who will do spot uv for the trade in small quantities?

Running a 210 lpi square dot out of trueflow, I have tried different shapes but they don't look great, so I like this screen set but black type looks very steppy because of the angle it is set to. I swap it sometimes with Cyan on certain jobs, but wondering what people are running angles at? And...

Does anyone know what Duplo is selling Alpha stitcher for, in round numbers? Anyone running one? Good, Bad, otherwise?

Trying to make some film positives for screen printing on an Indigo, problem is Hq RIP only has 5 presents for LPI 144 being smallest, which is still way to small of a dot for screen printing, does anyone know a way of pre-screening out of photoshop or ID a course line screen, art will generally...

Looking to do process on a dark substrate, I suspect I will have to do 1 hit of opaque and then dry trap 4CP, anyone have success? (UV not an option), just wondering if single hit will be enough and registration/fit having to do 2 passes???

Every year in the fall and winter when humidity starts to drop we will have problems with Screen 4300. Problem is (almost certainly) static that builds up and punch plate does not drop onto pins on the drum correctly... mechanical errors, crooked imaged plates, etc. Have tried static spray...

Let me preface by saying I am more of a traditional press guy. But we put in an Indigo last year and I have had a couple phone sessions and only one boots on the ground service call. I read threads of people having upwards of 10-12 calls a month on 50-75k in impressions, how do you make money...

Tons of trash lately, tried all the normal suspects; calcium rinse, cleaned roller ends, flush royse, switched ink, etc... See a good bit of paper trash on blankets, I suspect picking, because of the sheer number of hickeys, but also can trace back to switching to IBF thermal plate, feels...

My warranty is about to come up, are any Indigo users having success with 3rd party service and buying consumables as you go, i.e. cutting the purse strings of HP? The idea is a little daunting, but click charge + monthly service really adds up if you are not lousy with volume, don't get me...