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    spot dull varnish and overall gloss coating issues

    How many impressions can you get before you need to wash the blankets? Dull varnish is notorious for leaving build up on the blanket.Try reducing the varnish and see how you make out.
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    Spray powder bombs-40" Komori

    sounds to me like you have a build up of powder and grease on your rails or delivery pan,you need to do a though job of cleaning the delivery part of your press.Do you have a extended delivery?
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    Getting Ink to dry on uncoated cover

    Have your ink supplier make you a coatable PMS colors,if they are your main vender they should be more than happy to do that.If you don't have coating capabilities I would have the supplier make you a stronger PMS color,or if you have an open unit use a tint and a solid,run your waters lower and...
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    Finding Distortion factor for coating blankets

    It's very hard to do a spot coat on a coater blanket while it's off the cylinder(actually that part is easy,it's when you remount the blanket,that's where the trouble begins).You can do ok with glue flaps,large areas but if you want to get really fancy(knockouts ect) you have to cut the blanket...
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    Komori 528 sheet marking

    Try putting a dirt sheet in(blanket packings taped together)start at the back of the slow down wheels and work the sheets back to the bottom of the pan( use masking tape to secure the packings and make sure there are no raised areas where a gripper might catch it) stopping right before the rails...
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    Komori 528 sheet marking

    Does the sheet mark even with one side already coated?What do the mars look like?Is your sheet deculer on?
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    Komorimatic Damping

    Jay is correct,make sure you start with the metering roller and work torward the plate,also when you set your water form roller to the plate make sure you put your form rollers on.
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    komori`s maintenance

    Sure,here are a few of the things we perform on a weekly basis, 1)complete lubrication,grippres transfer and impression cylinders,all cam followers,delivery grippers and all points noted in the manual. 2)cleaning all filters,pump,spray main motor ect. 3)rejuvinating all rolletrs and checking...
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    Picture framing

    The job was run on a Komori,6color coater(this job did not coat) with a number 2 sheet of paper(I belive it was sterling gloss cover)I'm also leaning to the etch idea,I'm running HDA65 and Emerald junior,conductivity(when freshly mixed)is 1,700 t0 1,900.Today I increased the etch a little bit...
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    Picture framing

    A s/w means sheet wise,five plates on the front and five differant ones on the back.
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    Komori L-640 - Packing moving under blanket

    Make sure you have long grain packing and not short.
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    Picture framing

    Ok heres a strange one,we ran the first side of a s/w job,100# cover4/c/p+an o/a gloss varnish,on the first side we lost two magenta plates a black plate and a yellow plate(the job was 114,000 impressions)the plates started going at 30,000 impr.I backed up 30,000 sheets and then bam I started...
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    Ink building up on komori L-640 metering rollers

    The tanks are Royse,the water flow is at a minimum,we clean the meters often,I've not tried to gum the meters yet,only the chromes,I've had the black and yellow in differant units and it's still the same(building up on the metering rollers)
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    Ink building up on komori L-640 metering rollers

    I work in P.A..we run 24/7 I drain the tanks,flush with Prisco royal flush,turn off the chillers and run hot water through the lines,the press has cooled vibrator rollers(3 of them per unit)I keep my fountain tank temp. at 55 degrees,at the pan it reads 62 degrees which I think is fine.When I...
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    Ink building up on komori L-640 metering rollers

    We've been having alot of trouble lately with process ink(flint)building up on our metering rollers(bottcher+rodadyne)we use pressmax HDA-64(6oz per 5 gal of ro water) and emerald jr.(15 oz per 5 gal of ro water)any ideas?Thanks.

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