Alcohol Substitute: requesting feedback on AllStar by allied

[klalgie]

Hi there,
Is there anyone who uses the alcohol substitute AllStar by Allied in their pressroom? If so could you give me a feedback on this product and the effects it have both positively and negatively.

thank you.

 

[LSW]

I used Allstar fount a few years ago on Heidelberg CD102 presses in the UK. We intended to go reduced alcohol but bit the bullet and ran alcohol free. The only major problem we had at the time was when the ambient temperature in the pressroom was particularly high we would struggle to keep small reversed type clean. It's likely the chemistry has improved since then. It's worth noting that it required regular maintenance of the fount system and we also used RO water and an in-line fount filtration system.