My big concern with doing 4color on a QM-46 is that the sheet to sheet registration is not that great. If you're doing multi pass printing it...
not sure about how this works on your press, but I would follow the hose from the tank all the way to the water pan and see if you have a flow...
plate sav*ur for metal plates. just wipe scratches or holes and they should stop printing.
I don't have much history with Kompacs but is the pan roller under water all the way across. I've seen other dampners have problems because of a...
There was supposed to be some kind of symposium on the 14th in Germany about weather or not HP Indigo prints were in fact deinkable. I haven't...
If the image is still on the plate but it is no longer printing it sounds like the gum in the etch is desensitizing the image areas of the plate....
It's kind of hard to explain all of the reasons behind whats going on but a tip that seems to help most people is... once he's up to color and...
also is this only happening in production mode when you hit the feed button or does it do the same thing when you do the test feed or single sheet...
Not sure if it will help but you can try turning SF 19 off(sheet leangth monitoring system) and also the selector switch on the right side of the...
is the plate the same one you used the first time? If it's the same plate and you didn't use some kind of plate saver / gum solution to save the...
I'm not sure what exactly the problem is but you can try and create the file as CMYK and add some light CMY screens behind the black to streanghen...
is the sheet Aqueous or UV coated? When we did our press we ran the samples about .05 points heavy and checked the ⌂E with dryback a few days...
I've had a similar issue with the Sakurai that I run. It ended up being the infeed gripper settings. To check them put a sheet of the 80# stock...
If you want to look into a CTP machine I'm running a Fuji Dart 4300E with ECOMAXX-T plates...
pull off the plate (6 screws) covering the sheet seperators and check to make sure the hoses that are attached to them are running smoothly(too...
Is the problem with the boarders being lighter/darker on the tops and sides? If this is the problem you can do what National Geographic used to...
Personally I would run as fast as you're comfortable while still maintaining your quality. Generally I shoot for 80% of max press speed as an...
The stipping issue in the rollers and the fact that the inks are jumping up after you run for a bit sounds to me like its an ink and water balance...
for clarification I would like to ink up the plate and blanket and manually put the impression on to check the stripe from cyl to cyl.
I am trying to check the stripe from Plate to Blanket and Blanket to Impression on this press. The breakaway tests look horrendous and I would...
