Rollers and inking issue
Hi all,
I’ve got an 8x12 C&P and am having some problems with inking - towards the bottom of the plate it appears slightly smudged/slurred - not crisp at any rate. Towards the top it looks good. The plate consists of text and I have it positioned vertically on the Boxcar base. My question is - would the slurring/smudging of the text at the bottom of the plate area be caused by the fact that the rollers rest against that area more than they do on the rest of the plate? I don’t have a treadle so am hand-turning the flywheel for each impression, and have to keep stopping between each one, obviously, in order to take the printed sheet out and put in the new one.
Could the inconsistent inking be caused by the rollers resting against part of the plate and therefore over-inking that area? Or should it make no difference? Unless I turn the plate (which is portrait orientation) to be landscape, there is no way of avoiding the rollers touching it repeatedly at the bottom after each print.
Seems like it is really hard to get consistent, crisp printing on text areas! But I am pretty sure it is user-error as we are still relatively new to all this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you :)
I would not stop the press with the rollers resting on the plate, this could cause uneven inking, so many things could cause this, but if you stop the press with the rollers all the way down it might cure your problem. Dick G.
Thank you! I tried this and it did help the problem. Thanks again :)