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[arossetti]

For the people updating daily do you have a profile for each stock you run and do you have a stable temp/humidity?

Do you run digital cut sheet or do you cut down offset sheets?

How long do you store the paper on your floor before running it?

 

[MailGuru]

For the people updating daily do you have a profile for each stock you run and do you have a stable temp/humidity?
Do you run digital cut sheet or do you cut down offset sheets?
How long do you store the paper on your floor before running it?

Hi Arosetti - Not sure if this was directed at me, but, in case it is...............

Yes, we have a specific profile for each stock we run. Those profiles include alignment specs. The profiles are automatically applied via Hot Folders for each job when we send to the RIP
Yes, we have an exteremely stable temp/humidity. Pallets of the paper we use are kept in the actual laser printer room (which is always airconditioned - 24/7).
We run mostly Digital Cut Sheet, from the mill already cut. 12 x 18 60# Gloss text & 12 x 18 80# Gloss Cover to produce 2-up 6 x 9 booklets - about 200,000 sheets per month, auto-duplexed, front and back stays dead-on.
We cut down some 10-pt C2S in 25 x 38 sheets to 12.5 x 19 ourselves for 4-up 6 x 9 Post Cards. About 10,000 sheets per month - duplexed
We buy 80# Satin Text in 23 x 35 sheets, and, have them sent to a local bindery where they will perf 2 sets of either 12-up coupons, or 10-up coupons and trim to 8 1/2 x 14. The perfs are micro-perfed. We then run the pre-perfed paper through our V2100 and alignment stays dead-on, even running pre-perfed paper - about 80,000 sheets per month - (simplex only for that application).
We also run envelopes - #10's (window & non-window), #9's, 6x 9's, 9 x 12's, 10 x 13's, A-7's, & A-2's.

If we get low, I will run paper directly off the truck with no problems. I buy paper monthly, and, try not to have more than 1 to 1.5 months on the floor at any given time.

I hope this helps!

-Best

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[jrsc]

For the people updating daily do you have a profile for each stock you run and do you have a stable temp/humidity?

Do you run digital cut sheet or do you cut down offset sheets?

How long do you store the paper on your floor before running it?

We have a profile for each stock

Normally our temp/humidity is pretty stable but since we've got the machine it's been moving. The weather here has been bouncing between 15 and 60 day to day so some days we need heat and some days ac.

98% digital cut sheet

Most paper is on the floor between 3 days and 3 weeks before we use it. Same room as the 2100.

 

[kdw75]

Our machine is kept in a temperature controlled room, but the humidity fluctuates from 35% in the winter, to 50% in the summer. Most of the paper we run is cut down from 19x25 sheets we order on skids for offset. The issues we have are usually side to side, at the tail end, needing a skew adjustment on the second side.

Do you leave your Regi-Loop, and Aligner Roll Pressures at the default setting, in order to get good registration?

Our C75 registers every bit as well as our 2100. When we bought ours, we had talked to people who were testing them, and they claimed it registered as well as offset, but we seem to have regular sheet to sheet mis-registration of a 32nd of an inch

 

[grafix]

I have had the Versant 2100 for about 3 months. The Full Width Array will fail Auto Alignment often. Most recently, 80# 13x19 cover. When it completes it does not register front to back. Repeated attempts have a different outcome but still no good. At times fiery screen will popup a message they was a error with the engine.

The tech recently changed what sheets look like when output. I now have 12 gray fills on the sheet. They were not there in the past, just the lines so I could check the intersecting point to see how it backed up. I also now having a yellow tint over the gray on both from and back edges.

On another subject, I am use to making my own color profiles (Canon and Konica machines) with an Xrite isis and calibration software. I wish that would be possible with the Versant 2100. I'm told it takes care of all that...I beg to differ. I wonder what would happen if the isis were installed and drivers loaded. Anyone tried that? I know with Fiery on the past, the device would magically show up when calibrating and print a different target.

There has been a conflict on how to calibrate color. I start off with loading a new paper, running the FWA to get a set point. Then, on Fiery use the Calibration to print out those CMYK patched and scan with the ES-2000. It's my understanding any future calibrations would use the Cal utility on Fiery, but use the FWA to lock the color back down where it is suppose to be.

Any comments from users is welcomed.

 

[MailGuru]

Mmmm......... Did you get the EFI Pro Hyper-Rip with your V2100?

 

[grafix]

Haven't checked in but now see your reply and thank you for that. I have the EX-P 2100. Continual issues with 13x19 sheets. Tech is coming again today. In the past he placed blame on me for corrupting the NVM. The app specialist doesn't fell it is my doing that us causing this.

 

[MailGuru]

I'd keep the tech woring on it. Something doesn't sound right. With ours (V2100, Full Width Array, EX-P 2100 hyper-rip), we still complete color calibrate about once a week (on our old machines - Xerox 8002, 8000AP, etc. we calibrated daily, so, it does cut down on our calibration time.)

 

[DYP]

I really think the current firmware has screwed up the array using 13 x 19 sheets. I used to be able you do inboard to outboard density correction with a 13 x 19 sheet, but no more. Does not give me an error but it is clear visibly obvious is not correcting the density across the sheet. If I do do an inboard to outboard density correction with a 12 x 18 sheet it is clear visibly obvious it is correcting the density across the sheet. I haven't tested auto alignment that I can remember on a 13 x 19 sheet.