Ryobi 512 Presses

This thread is for general discussion of Ryobi 512 Presses.

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Ryobi 512

Hi there, I own a print organisation in the North West of England, in Nelson, a small town in Lancashire. I started off with a Ryobi 512 at the age of 24, with a Parker Flip Top UV Print Down Frame, an EBA 550 guillotine and a Faltex folder, this was in 2002.
The 512 was a fantastic machine to learn on, altough it couldn't cope with four colour work, I found it to be excellent on 2 colour work. I was always stripping it down as it was always giving me problems such as pressures kept on going on, problems with registration and colour and ink balance, but then again I went into the game with no experience what so ever. And most of my problem were with printing rather than mechanics on the press.
In 2007 I invested in a 524H, Heidelberg Topsetter, MBO folder, Wholenberg Guillotine, and a 2000 Duplo collator and booklet maker system. Along with three weeks of training of an ex demonstrator. And I'm not looking back now, my advice to anyone who wants to start off in printing is get a press you can get used to and learn as much about its engineering and mechanics before buying something for £50-60,000..