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SheetSim-SHOTS Description

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Production information

Production Cost
- Hourly running
- Down time
- Spare parts/repairs
- Total Cost
Total to Print
- Good Copies
- Remaining to print

Paper
- Width
- Length
- Weight
- Thickness
- Coated/Uncoated
Units
- ON/OFF
- Color

Press configuration

2, 4 or 6 print units + coater unit

Training History

Problems solved (per operator)
- Predefined problems and print faults
- Operator Actions
  - Console Adjustments
  - Press Adjustments/ Repairs
  - Densitometer and Magnifier measurements
  - Use of Help System
  - Time and Cost /Action
  - Result of Action (print better or worse)

Overall results and production costs -* Total Production Time -* Total Downtime

Cost/Impression

Total Time and Cost

Press Customization

Photos, movies, PDF files, texts, etc. may be integrated in the simulator to better describe the workings of your own pressroom

Trainer editor makes it possible to create your courses, product costs, press configurations, and print jobs.

2, 4 or 6 colors print jobs possible (with 2 spot colors)

Console Actions

Ink/Water
- Overall for each unit
- Ink flow for each key
- Additives - all units
- Alcohol/substitute - all units
Register
- Lateral, Circumferential, Skew for each unit
- Lateral, Circumferential for coater

Speed
Heat
- Set temperature

QC Tools

Manual densitometer
Scanning densitometer
Spectrophotometer (Lab, Lch, delta Lab)
Magnifier
Glossmeter

Console Log

Operator actions

Press Components

Infeed
- Double Sheet Detector
- Blowers
- Suckers
- Stops
- Grippers
- Stack Controls.
- and many more . . .
Print Unit
- Ink Train
- Rollers, oscillators
- Dampening Train
- Blanket
- Plate
- Impression Cylinder

Coater unit

Dryer

Powder Spray

Delivery

Decurler
Blowers
Sheet Handling

Fountain Controls

Air Conditioning

Simulated Print Faults

Backup Registration Error
Bad Delivery Pile
Blinding
Breakdown

Color Deviation
Color Difference
Crash
Crooked Sheet
Dents in Blanket
Dog Ears and Tears

Double Sheet
Doubling
Drying Delay
Filling In
Fitting Error
Flooding

Fluffing
Ghosting
Hickies
Ink Deposit on Cylinder
Ink Piling
Lines in Print - Circumferential

Lines in Print - Lateral
Loss of Image

Missing Sheet
Moire

Mottling
Pebbling
Picking
Plate Running Dry
Print Length Error
Registration Error

Repeating Image
Scumming/Catching-Up
Set-Off
Slur - Circumferential
Slur - Lateral
Smearing

Stains in Print
Streaks in Blanket
Strike-Through
Tinting
Tone Value Decrease
Tone Value Increase

Tracking
Trapping
Wrinkling

Diagnostic Help System

Current faults and all possible faults
- Potential causes
- Definition of fault

REFERENCE MANUAL

Proper settings for the press

- Beijing university adds second set of simulators : now has total of 37: sheetfed, flexo, gravure, heatset - Polish research center adds Flexo simulator - Leonardo school in France installs SHOTS - New distributors join Sinapse network for Korea, Latin America, Indonesia - U of Wisc. adds SHOTS to its gravure and heatset simulators - Vistaprint Canada installs first SHOTS - Jyvaskyla and Metropolia in Finland install SHOTS, Flexo, Heatset - AIDO in Spain installs Flexo - Don Bosco in France adds SHOTS - The Lycee Edouard Branly, Chatellereault, France, installs its first SHOTS simulator - Sheetfed simulators used alongside Heidelberg presses at WorldSkills Calgary - Shandong School (China) installing 10 Sheetfed simulators - SHOTS installed at Flint Hills Technical College, USA - New SHOTS installation in Scuola Professionale L. Einaudi, Bolzano, Italy - VTC in Hong Kong installs 2 SHOTS - Toppan installs first SHOTS in Japan – in Japanese - Heidelberg North-East Africa installs SHOTS in Egypt and becomes regional distributor - Arabic version of the sheetfed simulator soon available - Grafoc, Belgium, installs additional SHOTS in 3 different schools - Hubei Vocational Technical College in Wuhan installs 3 SHOTS - PT Gramedia, Indonesia, installs first SHOTS - 1st simulator installed in Hungary : Flexo in Budapest - Hdm Stutttgart installs 6th simulator, 2nd heatset - Le Telegramme signs for multiyear training program with Newspaper Simulator - Total Simulators installed now > 1700 - Supercolor (Italy) installs Sheetfed Simulator - Alsace Newspaper using simulators for upskilling workforce - RR Donnelley using simulators in 40+ sites - UPM now offering simulator-based training courses - FTA Training Certificate now available for Flexo Simulator Curriculum - Hersant Media installs newspaper simulators at 4+ sites – 3 year extended use contract - Flexo and Newspaper Simulators now available in CHINESE - Nampak in Nigeria and Shorewood in US still happily using Gravure simulators - French Government recommends simulators for all vocational print degree schools- - Packaging Gravure Simulator now available in German - GATF/Sinapse Training Certificate now available for qualified simulator users - Indonesia installs second set of Heatset and Sheetfed simulators – and connects them to press console. - Transcontinental now in 5th year of multisite simulator (Heatset/Sheetfed) contract

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