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What is your view of the following?
Same ink same press same paper 60# gloss text.
Press 40"
sheet size 25 x 38
1 color black
Fountain solution A sheets come out perfectly flat no curl and virtual no peel noise. Ran 26,000 sheets
Drain and flush tanks now using fountain solution B same plates,ink,paper etc. After about 250 sheets the sound of the paper peeling from the blanket is increasing the sheets are starting to curl at about 2,000 impressions the sheets are too curlly to delivery. Press is stopped the blanket is checked the ink is piling on the blanket. The blanket is cleaned and the run resumed at 2,000 sheets again the blanket must be cleaned. This continued for the duration until the remaining 26,000 sheets of the job were finished.
Fountain solution A required 3 hours for the 26,000 sheets to be ran. Fountain solution B required 5.3 hours and an additional 1,200 sheets to get the 26,000 required.
One fountain solution is high in VOCs the other has virtually none.
Which fountain solution performed better and why?
Same ink same press same paper 60# gloss text.
Press 40"
sheet size 25 x 38
1 color black
Fountain solution A sheets come out perfectly flat no curl and virtual no peel noise. Ran 26,000 sheets
Drain and flush tanks now using fountain solution B same plates,ink,paper etc. After about 250 sheets the sound of the paper peeling from the blanket is increasing the sheets are starting to curl at about 2,000 impressions the sheets are too curlly to delivery. Press is stopped the blanket is checked the ink is piling on the blanket. The blanket is cleaned and the run resumed at 2,000 sheets again the blanket must be cleaned. This continued for the duration until the remaining 26,000 sheets of the job were finished.
Fountain solution A required 3 hours for the 26,000 sheets to be ran. Fountain solution B required 5.3 hours and an additional 1,200 sheets to get the 26,000 required.
One fountain solution is high in VOCs the other has virtually none.
Which fountain solution performed better and why?
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