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How do I make a procedure from
etching to printing by use of Elefax plates? |
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A procedure from etching
to printing using Elefax plates will be recommended as follows. |
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Etching
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- Etching Solution V should be used with an undiluted.
- It is recommended that an etching processor should be
used usually.
When hand etching (absorbent cotton use) is performed,
if the etching solution remains in half-tone screen part
of a plate, it will become superfluous etching and white
omission unevenness will occur in the half-tone screen part
at printing.
Carry out hand etching, rubbing in as measures, so that
a circle may be drawn, and wipe off after that the etching
solution with which the half-tone screen part remained with
the absorbent cotton extracted firmly.
-- Please print after etching promptly.
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Arrangement
of damping water |
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Fountain solution U should be diluted with water. The ratio
is as follows.
- In the case of printing machine with two pieces of
molton roller ... diluted 50 to 60 times with water.
- In the case of printing machine with one piece of
molton roller ... diluted 40 times with water.
- In the case of the printing machine of other A3 portrait
sizes, although it changes with its damping system, it
is diluted 15 to 30 times with water.
Notes: The conventional fountain solution cannot be used
for Elefax plates printing.
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Printing
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- Set a plate to a plate cylinder. Please stick the plate
and the cylinder well for dirt prevention.
- Start a printing machine.
- Wet in a molton roller uniformly, and then make the
plate surface touch.
- Check the plate surface having got wet with damping
water uniformly, and then make an ink roller touch, and
start printing.
One point advice:
When the surface of a plate becomes dirty in ink at printing,
clean the plate in the following procedures.
Absorb absorbent cotton with both the almost same quantity
of a blanket cleaner solution and an etching solution V,
and clean the dirty part with it lightly. The blanket cleaner
solution for cleaning the blanket part of a printing machine
might be recommended by the printing machine company and
does not dissolve the plate surface and an image part.
After the cleaning, start to print after making a molton
roller touch enough.
However, it may not recover completely.
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