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Im about to say something contrary to the very Demming principals that all forms of manufacturing would love to adhere to. The notion that we are NOT to accept any uncontrollable variables in manufacturing processes is a bunch of bullpoopie. As much as the beancounters would love to be able to...

Have you or your pressman noticed a trend as to the inaccuracy of the CIP data? Do they have to consistently add or take away ink. Is it the same addition or subtraction on both coated and uncoated stocks? Are the inaccuracies more prominent in the morning after the initial daily inkup, or...

Do you do regular calcium rinses of your rollers?

Have you tried using a more weakly pigmented black ink? By running a black thats weak in pigment you could effectively run a thicker ink film. This thicker ink film should aid in keeping hickeys in check. Do yourself a test.... When you have a problematic form on the press just throw about...

The problem with trying to assign a densitometer number variation to a 4 color printed piece is that at times a delta of up to 10 densitometer points may have a negligible affect on the bulk of the printed piece, but you may encounter images where variations of less that 5 densitometer points...

Are you running weakly pigmented inks that require you to run a thick ink film? Thick ink films will cause an unstable emulsion that will result in "misting". This misting will make a mess in short order and cause buildup on the bars you mention. Even with strong inks it could get to the...

My recommendation would be to purchase blankets unmounted. Im not very fond of the blankets that come pre mounted on extruded aluminum blanket bars. Ive found that the extruded bars do not distribute the tension on blanket evenly around the cylinder at the point where the blanket just enters...

"Chris..."the correct height" measurement can be arrived at in multiple ways. Some may say that if you just add the blanket thickness thats marked on the back of the blanket, along with the thickness of all the paper packing, and just subtract that from the blanket cylinder undercut you will...

This is what you get when you have incompetent press crews.

Chris... I ran that very press a number of years ago and I can tell you that problem did NOT exist. You are saying that the press is packed to specs on all units with new blankets, but what you're not saying is if the plate and blanket measures up to the correct height with a packing gauge???

The need for the repair can be attributed as far as we were able to tell ,to some sort of foreign metallic object within the paper pile.

That Kentucky shine works very well as long as your anal about making sure you spray down the rollers for even the slightest period of down time!!!

They manage to "operate" like this because you and others are still buying their product!!!

Is it possible that as a result of being a new to your plant machine that the settings and general operation of the presses dampening unit has not been fully mastered yet?

Dr Scholls gel shoe inserts. Less than $20 bucks here in the United States.

In app 35 years of running sheetfed presses, and managing sheetfed pressrooms, Ive NEVER been on a job interview where the person interviewing me failed to mention how they were a "quality" printing company. It would appear that all printers THINK they are running a quality operation, but yet...

Dont knock the quick epoxy fix. Ive personally done the epoxy thing with a repair that could print a 60% screen on that unit and you couldn't even tell there was a repair. It even lasted close to a year before it began to show some porosity. That fix was a far cry from $1500 bucks. It...

50% of any color, or any substance for that matter can be whatever your unit of measurement is. It can be 50 grams, 50 kilograms, 50 ounces, or 50 tons. If an ink formula calls for 50 percent transparent white then you just need to choose a unit of measurement that gets you were you want to be...

not sure just how much digital printing is affected by lamination, but I can tell you that with sheetfed offset printed sheets that are offline laminated, the sheet grain has a pretty big effect on the curling you describe.

On a modern printing press, and I will just use Heidelberg as an example, only because im most familiar with them, there is a setting in the presses interface called "characteristic curves". This setting is where you go to make the sort of adjustments that you seem to be talking about. What im...