KODAK process free plates

[Joe]

I want to know who would buy a 4up platesetter for an 8up press in the first place?

Probably some bean counter who decided to save money they could just tape 2 sets of pates together.

[Ear]

.... and take twice as long to burn plates. I burn over 100 plates, 8 up per day... sometimes 200. I cannot imagine having to pull double duty on plate burning. Nothing would get done.

[Joe]

But he probably saved them $50K upfront...even though it probably cost them $500K over time because of it. But that doesn't count.

[Ear]

Reverse amortization? 

[Joe]

 

Indeed.

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99 percent of our work is 4 color on 4up presses. the old heidelberg 2 color only gets inked up a couple of times a month. but yeah, who tapes frikken plates 

[Farabomb]

That explains the    every third word. 

How many Kegarators  you got in    that place?

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What is a "Kegragator" if I should dare ask?

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sorry, Kegarators mispelled.

 

[Joe]

A keg in a refrigerator.

Kegerators

[andyfest]

What is a "Kegragator" if I should dare ask?

It's perfect if you are into homebrewing. Put a draft tap on the fridge and voila...55L of frothy goodness.

[RMPrepress]

We made the move to the Kodak Sonora plates about 6 months ago and are happy so far.

We were using a Fuji plate previously and our vendor could no longer sell the plate because Fuji was eliminating the middle man.
The vendor then tried to sell us on the Kodak Sonora. We tested it for about 2 months on 2 40 inch Heidelberg presses running everything you could imagine with them and while it was a big change getting used to not being able to really see anything that you can check on the plate before sending it out to the press, we are not looking back now and have no regrets.

Seeing slug lines was an issue, especially on say a 6x9 32pg on 25x38 where the slug from Preps would be about 6pt and just about unreadable.  So I added huge slug lines in the plate bend at each corner of the plates that include all the info any could or would ever need know about each plate.   I have our Nexus RIP to all work picking up the info from the JDF files. I just had to create the slugs and tell them where to go ....very happy platemaker and pressman!!

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That explains the    every third word. 

How many Kegarators  you got in    that place?

hey, i have standards when it comes to drinking. i only drink at night. (all night). 55L of frothy goodness? have to check into this....

[David]

I never drink alone, or when I'm by myself.  maybe.

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I never drink alone, or when I'm by myself.  maybe.

George Thoroughgood? Is he still alive.?