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Hello,
we are in the process of acquiring a XEROX 242 printer.
Our company is located in a small Caribean island and the only serious printer dealer is Xerox...
So far we have been doing VDP with a XEROX 7760 and well, the job was done.
The only restriction was with paper weight and colorful whole page printing that could be...erratic sometimes.
An average job is between 500 and 4000 A4 pages, duplex or simplex.
We are using Print Shop Mail as a VDP software and have been pleased so far with it.
Eventually, our dealer said he could get us a nice price for DARWIN but I don't really see the point in changing our software as PSM does what we need.
Variable image letter (AKA your name in a cloud) is not really something our customers are willing to pay for a 3000 mails campain.

Most of the time we print an SRA3 sized paper (450x320mm) and then we cut it to a finished A4.
We use most of the time :
- non coated paper : never under 80gsm
- coated matte paper : never under 115gsm
- coated glossy paper : we never use this kind of paper as we had bad experience with our 7760. Btw, will we be able to handle it with a 242? a 700?
- From time to time we will have to handle 250 or 300gsm paper.

Our monthly volumes are :
- around 15000 SRA3 color printed faces (simplex)
- around 10000 A4 black printed faces (simplex)

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My questions are :
- Do you thing a 242 will be enough. The 700 looks like a killing but of course it's price is higher. For what i've seen, the engine is the same, only difference is the paper handling. I mean, at the end I don't think it is a printing quality problem, it could only be a paper handling problem...What's your opinion here?
- Most important question. Our sales rep keep telling us we need a CREO rip to do our VDP in the best conditions...What's your opinion on this one ? Most of the job we process consist of text variables, it can happens that we have 2 or 3 differents PDF background but variable images is something we don't really do on a regular basis. I don't know, maybe in some years our customer will be asking for this one, but not today.
Which RIP would you recommand for us.

Thanks a lot for your attention, and thanks for all the info I have been able to gather on this forum.
Living in a caribean is really nice when it is about beaches and girls but it could be hell when you look for this kind of discussion !

Thanks a lot and sorry for all these questions.

Best regards

Frank