"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
ericheartsu,My advice for you on your press...keep everything consistent. Set the off contact and then just leave it the same on every job. I have my press so all the heads print the same speed and same everything. The white is really the only head that gets messed with. Yes i adjust a little here and there but not too far from my base settings is needed. This gives you a solid starting point on every job. With time it will be second nature how much from your base setting to adjust to get the print dead on. Thats all I have for you. I am no expert.
Quote from: Jon on May 15, 2013, 04:05:33 PMericheartsu,My advice for you on your press...keep everything consistent. Set the off contact and then just leave it the same on every job. I have my press so all the heads print the same speed and same everything. The white is really the only head that gets messed with. Yes i adjust a little here and there but not too far from my base settings is needed. This gives you a solid starting point on every job. With time it will be second nature how much from your base setting to adjust to get the print dead on. Thats all I have for you. I am no expert.from screen to screen, it really does vary, and i'm trying to figure out why they do so much. We only use m3 frames on our press, which puzzles me as well
We even had it completely rebuilt last month!
Quote from: ericheartsu on May 15, 2013, 04:29:12 PMWe even had it completely rebuilt last month!After rebuild did you have the heads all leveled, pallets leveled and the press calibrated? Sounds like you may still need to have this done.
EricWhat make and model press do you have?
Our biggest time waster depends. For the "front end" it is dealing with clueless customers. For the production end of things I would say it is mixing specific discharge colors and like Kitson said "100% ship polices". We try to put individual packing slips in each box, that takes time. But I think I got a "system" almost set up. I'm trying to use our UPS printer to print packing slips from a template. Then we just fill in the blank on the computer and print. MY personal time suck is the damn phone!!!!!! When I started out I never thought I would say it, but I hate to hear the phone ring!
Eric- How long have you had the press? I know when I first got a auto I hated setting it up because it took so long, but with time it got better. Then we got a better press. The new pre reg system our S.Roque uses in my opinion can't be beat, possibly rivaled by MHM POSSIBLY. But I guess I don't know all the ins and outs of the MHM system.