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I have the a answer to all these problems............."It pops!" them: "it's not quite blue enough"......You: "but now it pops!" them: "oh, I just noticed the word "yes" is spelled wrong" ......You: "I noticed that, but with that typo in there it pops!" not to be outdone by "it's alot sharper...

My last employer had a really well thought out numbering scheme for the type of work we did. I have no idea what my current employer is doing with numbers, I'm not sure they do either. How you number jobs depends on whether it's a single operation or multiple operations/press rruns. Either way...

I think we're kind of off base on what conductivity actually is. Conductivity in and of itself really doesn't mean anything, it's just a measurement of dissolved solids. It's just a gauge to measure how much of your fountain solution is not water. If you are starting with RO water you dose the...

I ran a brand new Sunday 2000 (16pg single repeat) a few times, wasn't my usual press but I filled in on it. I wasn't really all that impressed. The gapless blankets only seemed to give a longer cutoff, didn't really seem to solve any of the other issues as promised. The autochange units were a...

Well I've been running a continuous ink feed press for a few months now and haven't had the desire to touch a fountain since. Good luck with that thing you're selling.

Its not "my method", it's every presman i've ever knowns method. If you dig up a press manufacturers operating manual (with remote inker), i'm sure you will not find them stating that the fountain should be set with the ductor engaged and running either.

What? Honestly Erik, I'm beginning to lose faith in your knowledge. You only set a fountain with a gear driven ink ball while the press is running. On a press old enough to have a gear driven ink ball it will also have manual ink keys. When the press is off and you are calibrating the fountain...

Eric, have you ever actually ran a press? You would have to do so before you can correct me on this. Ink can only feed back from the roller train to the ink ball through the ductor when the press is moving. On any press with a motorized ink ball (just about any press with remote keys), you...

theere is no "zero transfer" setting on a ductor fed press. There will always be some ink transfer from the ball to the ductor. At the point where there is "zero transfer" the fountain blade is touching the ink wall. Zero transfer can only be achieved with a continuous feed system. Any point at...

Wow, newer presses and automation really do get a bad wrap in this forum. I honestly don't think "automation" really makes the press that much easier to run. Where I work a less experienced (better yet "less capable") press crews get thrown on the older more "manual" presses. Why?....because...

I'm not Steve, but from what I understand his system has nthing to do with closed loop color, it is just being compared to closed loop color. Closed loop color on a webpress is a set of cameras, one for each side of the web. They move back and forth scanning the colorbar and moving keys...

Yes. Depending on the type of work you do you would ideally want prep to put the marks as close to the gear side of the web/sheet as possible (though they can be anywhere really). The system will align the marks in a perfect pattern (lateral and circ). It's still t up to you to decide on plate...

Oh I have trouble matching proofs all the time. If I go anywhere with the densities I posted for colrmatch it's generally lower. I also have to get Y plates cut back (screen values) pretty often. Honestly it's just the nature of the beast, there are several presses of each cutoff and jobs get...

Older web presses do. going from a narrow to wide web or changing colors the makereadies suck

It's a system that uses a camera to find a pattern of dots or marks, each unit prints a mark and the system moves the register motors to align the dots in a pattern. only minor adjustments need to be made once the dots are in their pattern. Auto register is available for sheetfeds too

If by unusual meaning it doesn't meet SWOP targets, then I guess you are right, but like I said the thread pertaining to ink densities would have you think that even SWOP is unusual, though I don't think anyone mentioned the type of printing they were doing. Yes but sometimes it's necessary...

"offset" meant offset paper. I'm still not following you here. You assume that I work with one press and it's a 4-color press where I would be running the same inks in the same units. These aren't densities that I came up with. These are "house" densities that every press in the plant conforms...

So are you suggesting that running densities lower than this is wrong in some way? Or that if you're not running these densities your press is not "stable". Look at the thread "standard ink densities" posted a little while ago in this forum. You will see numbers ranging from mine (the low end)...

I agree 100% but even the best pressman can do better with a press that's maintained well. Incompetent people are usually carried by overly competent people. The best management knows how to mix them together in press crews and make it work. It certainly isn't fair but I eat this shit every...

IMO that all depends on the actual "color" of the ink that you use and how curves are set up between prep and the press. There was a post on here where a bunch of people posted the densities that they use and they were all quite a bit different. You really need to do some testing in your own...