Please please give me a pointer I am stuck need input why I am doing this

Hi guys, I bought a 3302 Ryobi for a ministry we are doing through a church making tracts. Just starting to print in my life the other day my son and I started it up and printed a little bit we had some problems. However today we started it up I put my bottle of water in right PH etc. Put my ink in and let the rollers ink up. I started with the handle down one click (sorry handle) impression handle one click ingages the water got the plate wet the another click for the ink and another and my paper starts running through but by now I notice there is ink all over my paper all over my blanket and all over my plate and all over my water rollers???????? why what did I do wrong? I don't think the water rollers are suppose to have ink. I have the crestlines on this press. The first time I would run more water and clean up the plate but today was a total mess.

 

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 plate the first time it was run the entire plate would become oleophilic, meaning it accepts ink but not water. If so either burn a new plate or clean the ink off of the plate and wipe it down with concentrated etch or a gum solution. If you have the option to do either I would go with a new plate though.

hope this helps

 

Are parts of the plate clean or is plate totally inked up? Wipe plate with water mixture, if it cleans easily you did not have enough moisture to keep plate clean while operating, if plate does not clean then new plate is probably required. Crestline systems do ink up and pressures between rollers are critical.

 

Crestlines (the ones I've run anyway) do require you ink them up first before you print. Also some presses use a bridge roller with crestlines to ink up and washup. These need to be disengaged when in run/print mode. They are normally 1 lever on each side of the bridge roller to lift up and down. If the bridge roller is left engaged it adds water to the ink train. I have also noticed the crestlines are very sensitive to temperature change. Rollers can shrink in the cold and expand in the heat which can cause severe scumming when cold. Your crestline roller pressures may also need to be reset.