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Is there a best practice, or easy way to splice a reel on the cutstar. Getting on ok, mixed results. New to the cut star

Hello All, just having a recent problem with my numbering unit on a GTO 46. its in great condition, all of a sudden i cant get it to number on the drive side. there is a clearance between the box and the inking rollers. i dropped them as far as they go and they still wont ink the numbers. I put...

Hello all, just having an issue on my GTo single colour. 5 of the swing arm grippers wont take the sheet, the outer 3 are ok its the middle ones that wont grip. running a3 is fine, but portrait a4 wont work. the sheet is just left on the feeder. everything else seems fine. this just happened...

Hello all. My press is a Komori Lithrone 26 (1984). Recently been having problems with sheets dropping from the delivery transfer grippers especially on high coverage jobs. they tend to stick to the 4th unit blanket and cause all sorts of problems. took a look and many of them are worn and...

Hi everyone, have a 1984 komori lithrone 26 with a fairly bad oil leak, mainly around the delivery section and unit 4. I know its an old press but still, is there certain places where oil leaks are more prevelant? (on any part of the machine) any flash spots that i can check? thanks

Hello all, having a problem with the infeed in the feeder section. when i stop the feeder manually or its stops due to a double (or more) sheet, it pulls through the paper at the front lays. sometimes thats ok but a lot of the time it folds at the corners and smashes the blankets. also i now...

when i run the GTO it makes a bit of a grinding sound, very audible when i stop it. have attatched a video. its runnign fine but im worried about the souund, motor maybe? Thoughts anyone???

Hi everyone, having two small problems at the moment, hope you can help. Machine: Komori Lithrone 26 4 colour, 1984. 1. sometimes i shut off the air to the machine when idling or when im not printing. the compresser is old and i dont want it running too much when not needed. for some reason...

Hi, been having a small problem on my 2-col GTO 52 recently. Its very sporadic and seems to happen for no reason and then just goes away. When i'm printing and press either of the "stop production buttons" it trips the feeder but the press stays in impression. if i leave go the sheets start...

had a problem today and cant rememeber what the air pressure going into the press is. anyone advise???? have it set at 5 right now.

Hi, our supplier has been promising these chemistry free plates for the last 3 years, anybody using them yet.

with the recent cold sweeping across europe has anybody got tips for printing in cold environments. Im having trouble getting colour up in the mornings these days with the extreme cold sometimes i leave my ink tins on the radiators in our offices to warm them up before printing. i hate...

Having a spot of bother. when i go to print, unit 4 prints one sheet perfectly in impression then the impression goes off and i get blank sheets. I cant hear it going off. it just stops printing. i have checked all the pneumatics, taken off the covers and had a visual check, packing is perfect...

im heading over saturday and sunday, wont be making any major purchases. just having a look. what are peoples expectations?

Had an engineer in this week to sort my problems with the eyekom unit. Sorted now thankfully. whilst we were working on it we discovered that the side lay alarm wasnt working (i never knew it existed). I have a siren/hooter for the saftey-ready button..below I also have another one which...

Anyone ever heard of this??? Or who makes it. Using it at the moment, need some more info

Hi Folks. a problem cropped up today at work. My machine is a 1984 Komori Lithrone 26, 4 colour. Over the last week or so when i pressed the stop production button at the delivery end the machine failed to trip and stayed in impression when the paper ran out and i had to trip the feeder...

I have never done this on my own but have to replace the rollers on my cyan unit tomorrow. Usually i have an engineer or another printer at least helping me. Ive seen it done and done it a few times helping out. I want to get it right myself. i can set most of them and make adjustments when...