Your Experience required for Printing Job Cost Estimation and Management...
Hi, My brother owns offset printing company in India which generates good annual revenue but main problem within printing industry is to calculate job costs manually which takes a lot of time. He asked...
View ArticlePoll: Project Management for Prepress and/or Design
I'm curious what people are doing in regard to project management for prepress. I've been looking at a lot of ERP, MIS, pick-an-acronym solutions and "pre-production" seems to be a very weak area for...
View ArticleA few good Automations.....
I have been asked to do an online show that will represent some very forward thinking in the space of automation in the print space. This should fit in the Order entry, to shipping lifecycle. It does...
View ArticlePantone Book Printing Consistency
Does anyone have a link to watch how Pantone books are printed? There was a thread from 2008 on here that had the link but it no longer works and I'd really like to watch how they do it and ensure such...
View ArticleOCE Arizone Textile printing
Hello print world, I'm desperate for some help with my flatbed printer. I'm trying to print to a table cloth (which is essentially like a bedsheet). The table vacuum won't all for enough suction so I'm...
View ArticleOCE Arizona Double sided printing
Hi! Doesn anyone have experience printing double sided substrates such as coro, sintra, etc... on their flatbed? I feel like I've tried everything and I'm usually successful in lining up one direction,...
View Article31 years in offset...
Hi all, After 31 years in offset printing (and the past 5 with a Xerox 700), it looks like we are about to become all digital in-house while continuing to farm-out offset jobs. I just received a quote...
View ArticleCMYKthis Podcast
Hi fellow printers and sign makers! I run cmykthis a podcast for you the printer, sign maker and the business that surrounds us. I talk to industry professionals and dive deeper in to our industry....
View ArticleTiff catcher for Lotem
If you still use a Brisque as a RIP or as a tiff catcher to drive your Lotem, I can replace it with a Dell windows based XPO. Much faster and easier to support than the Brisque Low cost solution.. Any...
View ArticleScreen CTP
Have been satisfactorily using Screen CTP PTR 8000 II all these days. Suddenly, the display shows error message "checking memory, please wait" and does not boot. (Proface make HMI display GP377 model)...
View ArticleUser Manual for Screen 4300
In most part suitable for Heidelberg Topsetter 74 / 74P, Agfa Acento E / S, Avalon N4, Fujifilm Luxel T6000, Dart. http://www.kps.in.ua/service/PT-R4300_UM.pdf
View Articleenvelopes on Ricoh 7110
Hi guys, anyone running envelopes on a Ricoh 7110 / 7100? Thanks
View ArticleAdhesive Coatings on Offset Press
Has anyone heard of, or had experience printing adhesive coatings on an offset press? This would be for packaging purposes. Like a printed board (with and adhesive coating that is maybe heat sensitive)...
View ArticleCustomer stealing eProof files
We do a lot of prep work, and supply a PDF eProof. On occasion, I will do all the work, submit an eProof, and the customer takes the job somewhere else. Is there a way to protect myself? I would hate...
View ArticleXerox is Now Charging Sales Tax for Clicks/Service Contract
Here in Minnesota, we had repeal of sales tax on service contracts/click charges for digital presses and up until last month we were not charged sales tax. But, now Xerox has stated they reinterpreted...
View ArticleVersant 2100 Registration...
Our Versant 2100 seems to have registration issues. While they aren't terrible, the machine doesn't register nearly as well as our C75. We had service clean some sensors, and look over things, but it...
View Articleab dick 9985 / 3302 delivery table constanly going down
i have a ab dick 9985 that my delivery table keeps going down when the press is running even with nothing blocking the sensor. had tech out and tested and adjusted sensor but no help. not sure if it...
View ArticleCanon imageprograf ipf600 vs Canon ipf5000?
Hi! As somebody may know, I'm looking for an cheap wide format printer, and two candidates is found.: 1: Canon imageprograf ipf600 24" equal to approx 722$ 2: Canon imageprograf ipf5000 17" equal to...
View ArticleHow is the ink fountain roller on a Heidelberg SM 52 press driven?
How is the ink fountain roller driven on the Heidelberg SM 52 press? Is it with a motor or a ratchet? Looking at one in a video, it seemed that it did not turn continuously. Just curious. Thanks.
View ArticleEdge detected beyond the begining of the plate Lotem 400
Hi. Working with Lotem 400 . The first exposition of the plate is correct. In the second exposition this error appear: "Edge detected beyond the begining of the plate". Some problems with laser appear...
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