Dan The Man, you've succeeded in kicking my lazy arse into Maintenance Mode. I'ma take a micro apart, clean it, grease it and see if I can lose the ham.... um..... "Dynamic Excitement Tool" on at least one head.
What could it hurt?
I love the micros on my Hopkins 6/4 and like Tony said, the whole X, Y Axis thing once mastered quickly becomes automatic. It's just that the whole rear clamp thing is totally different than what I learned on the Hopkins years ago. I suppose I'll unlock the rears for larger movements and see what happens.
I don't yet have a pre-registration system like a Tri-Loc. I register to a film taped on a piece of White 3mm Sintra (PVC sheeting for signs) and lift the table. It was ghastly slow at first, not so much now. If I ever get busy to the point that I can't take the press out of production for my CaveMan Registration System, I'll have to do something different. I just try to schedule higher color count jobs first in the day, setting up after the last job is boxed up from the previous day. Then any one colors go to the manual for printing while I set up the next job on the Gauntlet.
Low volume shops do stuff that simply wouldn't fly in in a higher throughput environment. And I are LOOOW Volume Shop...certain times of year especially.
