Tuesday, August 21, 2012

8-21-2012 - Magenta ink flow is too high

Did the monthly maintainence routine, after cleaned all the ink pumps, put everything back, start-up the press, got the Magenta ink flow is too high.

After running the ink flow wizard, it says to close the valve half a turn, until the reading is right.

what to do is the ink pump is behind the ink cans, if you look thru the holes underneath the ink cans, you see a flat head screw, use a long screw driver and turn it clockwise 1/4 of a turn each time and test, until the reading is correct.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

8-16-2012 - replace pip and cleaning station sponge roller

wide white band on printed sheets.  after checking with print quality assistant, only cyan and yellow has the band, so replaced pip and the sponge roller.

roller part # mpt-1078-51.

8-16-2012 - Chiller time out

Is there a way to make the chiller sleep or timeout while I am out to lunch?


They basically time out and go to standby mode.

usually 20 min. or so.

Dry the bids first.

Go to standby and off.  That's about it.

8-15-2012 Smart Stream question

This is to recap yesterday's issues:

1. SSD didn't impose 4 up_ss very well, leaves 0.25" gap in the middle where 2 pages should butt.  Repaired permission on Mac, turns out the preview in SSD shouldn't be trusted.  There also should be 2 sets of crop marks for the two spreads, but only one fold line.

2. Feeder wouldn't feed any substrates from any drawers, hard restart the press solves the issue.

3. After restart the press, all files in loaded job wouldn't go in the queue, restart teh press again solves the issue.

8-16-2012 - Calibration Error

Calibration wouldn't go through, error message:


Couldn't complete the full color calibration.

Error message: High voltage error successfully recovered!
Check output tray for any poor-quality printouts and resume printing.

Hard shut down and restart the press one time, restart press software one time.

Hi Randy, this error is usually due to really old or bad bid.

I unchecked the "Velectrode calibration", and the calibration went thru.

yes, but all t5hat's doing is skipping the v-electrode calibration which is the charging unit insi9de thge bid.

Which one of your bids has the most impressions.

Yellow, also on the calibration result, it says yellow failed.

Then yellow bid is the likely culprit.  The issue should be resolved after a bid replacement.

OK, i'll replace the yellow bid.

Case # 680223274

update:

Replacing the yellow bid didn't resolved the issue, re-calibrate 2 colors at a time, yellow still didn't pass, so as white.