Sounds like blankets (loose) or blanket packing issue. Also paper and or feeder setup. Dot gain can also be ink and water inbalance. Bad etch. Try...
1998 not cd no varios. Nice print quality but MAJOR ELECTRICAL ISSUES. In it for lots of boards at $3500 + each and Heidelberg still cant figure...
Ours did that. Our heidelberg air dryer quit. We didnt know. Whole air line system was full of water. Pneumatic relays started failing all over...
Another issue I have seen in older 102s is sticky buttons at the console. You tap it and walk away and it got stuck n kept goin.
I agree with exheidmech. Potentiameters on the sweep motors or motors themselves. That would be intermitant.
Actually not trying to set it yet but two units seem to drop color upon increasing speed. Those two are set differently than the rest. The book is...
Bottcher is the only way to go for rollers and blankets. Also K & E for inks.
Ours did that too. Turns out after years of people poking liners ink built up in the keys. Those tiny motors can't handle much resistance. If...
A salesman at our company calls it the Heidelberg streak. My supervisor suggests main motor slack. My pressman suggests a trapping issue. I agree...
I have two great friends in printing. Spray powder and my handy dust wipe. Powder everywhere is ok. Ink everywhere makes me very upset.
Does anyone have any experience setting characteristic curves on a 1998 sm102 with CPC 104 console
Now, this topic is going somewhere. We now still use the Superblue covers (jackets) but use a new orange net on top of it. It is 30% less cost...
I agree with mrheidelberg....superblues are the way to go. We had the orange covers in the entire press and one by one removed them, went back to...
Clean superblues work, pack as needed only, and move the transfer suckers as needed....sure you tried that all....but.... Take out the...