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TCT:
That is it. That is also my slender self in that video....  ;D

scott316:
Nice lol.

I have a bunch of pictures and videos of the full unit.  if anyone wants them.

tonypep:
No exp w/ Bluewater but have had an M&R auto reclaim and now a Lotus Holland. M&R had too many chains that required quite a bit of maintenance to keep clean and working well. If ignored, you may see them on Digitsmith. Also did not care for the single chemistry approach (get it out of whack and you had to drain and $tart over). The Lotus 3 chamber works much better; do not have to worry about chemical inbalanceand far less maintenance. Uses only one chain to travel the screens and it never gunks up. It uses brushes for ink removal and the reclaim chamber uses a high tech tubular belt. Very different approach to the M&R. In any case IMO all these units require a certain degree of care and maintenance. They are not plug and play push a button and Bobs your Uncle. And again, I have yet to see all screens come out perfect every time. Tape adhesives, ink pigments, water PH, and many other variables come into play. For us a quick spray of 701 and pwash fixes any troubles. Summary, they are huge time savers for the multi task screen making op. We can auto coat/ image/ de-tape/reclaim with one or two people depending. And finally, with both units we scrape the screens with a 3" stainless steel paint scraper (beveled and sanded) to clean screens before entry. It puts way less strain on the chemistry and moving parts.

bimmridder:
I'm not trying to get into a contest with anyone, argue or beat my chest. I just want to share some real numbers. I am using the Bluewater Reclaim and Developer. Yesterday was a pretty typical day. We did just shy of 200 screens (195 to be precise). I have three people total in pre press and reclaim. My pre press has two people. Between them they coat, image, expose, develop, and tape screens.  My reclaim is one guy. He hauls screens off the production floor, removes tape, and runs the reclaim machine. That's my short story. Nobody was busting their ass, just moving at a good pace. We could have done a fair amount more had we needed to. Again, my number in my shop using Bluewater equipment.

ebscreen:
Mr. Dave I appreciate this info and the info you emailed over.

One point you had mentioned was water usage. I didn't ask about it in my original request but
that's actually kind of a big issue. This year is all good but the last few have been a little parched out west.

For those of you using these and are able to see water usage have you noticed a big increase?
I would like to think that a robot would be more precise than us lowly humans.

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