Skeleton breaking in automatic stripping
High severitySymptoms
Skeleton chunks falling onto blanks or jamming the station; constant stops
Probable causes
- Weak skeleton by design (narrow gutters)
- insufficient nicks releasing it early
- brittle board
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The Print Guy · 2026-10-05
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