pulse Report This Comment
Date: March 28, 2023 12:16PM

[www.plus613.net]

last activity - March 12, 2022

Bit over a year. He appeared, posted some comments and even images and disappeared again. I was pretty blown away though, it had been a very long time

Now just need fossil diggles and mrkim to come back. Both end of '21/start of '22.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 29, 2023 06:13AM

FD is incarcerated, I'm pretty sure of that.
And Kim doesn't get broadband at the unibomber shack he lives in.

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: March 31, 2023 11:01AM

Heh, heh, heh ... the world iddn that lucky 'berto!

Fossil's busy as a cat coverin up shit w/a business he and a cuppla buddies started a cuppla years back and I'm out here in the sticks in NE Texas.

Finally got back in the printing business. Workin on a web press runnin a buncha local papers, ads, etc. Job just kinda fell into my lap. Havin started out as an ink monkey 50yrs ago kinda seems fitting

PLP Report This Comment
Date: March 31, 2023 07:26PM

I have no idea how to log onto my account here and the email associated to it is gone. I post as Anon occasionally, but really, I don't know what the hell is going on anymore and damned if I ... oh look a cookie!

Mr. Kim, been thinking about how to contact you, all the emails I have for you are dead.... Know of a guy that needs welders in Sulphur Springs TX and immediately thought of you...

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: March 31, 2023 10:22PM

Thanks for thinkin about me Place but with my current gig bein indoors and climate controlled too makes it awfully appealing compared to what a welder goes through day in and day out. Sulphur Springs is about as close to me as Paris, where I work these days, but naaah. 30 miles each way and all highway the commute's a breeze too as I can make it in right at 30 mins

You here in Texas these days?

Got fossils contact info? If you don't, shoot me a PM and I'll forward it along

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 31, 2023 10:36PM

Goss?



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pulse Report This Comment
Date: April 01, 2023 05:31AM

@PLP easy enough to fix email address if you PM me (or mail abuse@etc)

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: April 01, 2023 06:22AM

Yeah 'berto, it's a 36" Goss Community circa 1972 runnin 22" webs though we often run one unit as an 11" dinky. 4 units for color, front and back, then another 4 we use for just black. Runnin color and black we "could" run up to 20pgs. but since we have one dead unit we're limited to just 16 max.

When I 1st got there it was an old tired dog that had been run just about into the ground from fiscal/mechanical neglect. Rollers so old they were cracked to hell, some were even worn down as much as .375" in their diameter. Still has lotsa sketchy copper rollers and a buncha ink blades that need replaced since the ink keys just don't really adjust anymore but at least we now have all the form rollers replaced.

When I hired on they had no press crew at all and had been runnin all the work outta another commercial shop 1-1/2 hrs. away. Though I haddn been on a web press since '74 they appreciated my overall printing experience and that I had also run a Kansa inserter previously for another paper I used to work for so I also set up and run the Kansa and the insert crew.

Told 'em when I hired in I waddn interested in learnin how to be a 4 color pressman. Too late in life for takin on a new trade and diddn want the headaches and responsibility so I just take care of the black units and manage the ink, water and paper.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: April 02, 2023 05:26AM

Letterpress or Litho? Plate per page?
Last one I saw was a litho press but running photo-polymer letterpress plates, plate per page, on magnetic cylinders.

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: April 02, 2023 05:42PM

Ours is offset/litho w/2 pages per plate/cylinder and then 2 opposing cylinders per unit which then yields 4 pages per unit. This also requires 4 complete units just to do 4 pages of 4 color process. Most of our work is at least 2 pgs of 4 color, which still requires all 4 of our 4 color units, then between 2 to 10 additional pages of black half tones and text.

My only experience w/polymer plates was on a corrugated flexo press. They used a mylar backing plate and were simply placed in position then taped to the cylinders. But, with registration in 1/16ths of an inch realm made then pretty much unusable for doin 4 color process work. Dot-for-dot registration just waddn gonna happen.

What kinda work were they runnin on that press? Long runs, short runs? Was the press converted from an offset press or purpose built?

I always think of letterpress more as a flat format run with usually metal type or dies. Though both letterpress and flexo presses both run without water systems as required in offset, flexo relates to the flexible nature of the dies/plates required since they are mounted on round cylinders.