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Originally Posted by tango
everything checks out on the platesetter and processor...looks like we're gonna blame it on a large batch of bad plates from Fuji. Is it Friday yet?
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I recently had a problem with a bad box of plates from Kodak. I'm pretty new to plate making and just that day had done my first chemistry change on the plate processor. I had also just cleaned the laser lens on our CTP for the first time per the regular maintenance manual. After these tasks were done I began running plates that had backed up while changing the chem. I ran out at least 12 plates with not problems at all and then on the 13th plate the CTP imaged and I could see the image on the transfer to the plate processor but after it processed it wiped the plate totally clean. I retried several times with different jobs with the same result. I was the last one in the shop on OT and suppose to have the next 2 days off and was freaking out cause I thought I had done something wrong and broken something.
It turned out to be a box of bad plates and if I had put 2 and 2 together I would have realized that the problem started on the first plate out of a fresh box. I guess sometime we always assume the worst first.
