my press a pm/qm46 has done 48million and is on its 3rd water form.
what do you mean water form is tarnished? the rubber form or the hard metering roller?
As they don't move once they have appeared I still believe it's blanket related & if I'm completely honest I think at the time I was also guilty of using very harsh solvents in the blanket wash up device.
I only use Pronto Plus now.
I had what looks like the identical problem, I have a QM & a PM 46.
It was the blanket in my case, I didn´t know till I put another blanket from the same source on my other machine and it started doing the same thing.
I have a QM46 & a PM46, if your quality expectations are quite high I have seen much better results achieved on a Ryobi 3302.
I can easily colour change a QM46 in half an hour for an acceptable full colour letterhead in half an hour, but I would not attempt a full colour A4 leaflet on Gloss art.
Funny!
Hi, I bought a 3302H as second machine to avoid wet trapping, but I sold it a bought a second QM, I just run the pair at the same time.
I'm the opposite to you I couldn't see how you could make any money using the Ryobi on low end jobs.
I don't know how your finding it here in the...