Introduce yourself!

[pete]

Hi! I'm a printer and run a QM 46-2 and Heidelberg DI. I've been a press operator for 16 years and love it! I have four kids, 4 grandchildren,and 2 more in production. My wife and I live on a small hobby farm near Cannon Falls,MN. I hope to learn from this site how to be a better printer.

[crestar]

hi, i am a director of Crestar Printers and Publishers,a commercial printing company in south africa, i do all prepress as well as have used most of the other equipment. we have multiple presses in the b2 and b3 format and will be upgrading soon to a larger format presses. we have mac and pc workstations, ctp from heidelberg, as well as a stahl folder, eurobinder, polar guillotine, saddle stitcher, hot lamination, paper drills, wire binders and specialized bindery,etc. we aim to do good quality work as quickly as possible, so far so good.

[Delprints]

Hello Everyone,

I am Harbeer from Delhi, India. I am itno this industry from the past 7 yrs. but after going through some of the topics covered on this site actually made me realise that I actually do not know anything in print line. I am a print broker and hence I am not into the technicalities. Would like suggestions from my seniors in this trade to let me know where to start off to learn the basics of printing to the whole lot.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Harbeer

[rising]

Hi All,

I Am Arunoday,Engineer in Printing Technology and have been industry more than a decade,presently working in Publishing industry to look after standardization of process ...i am happy to share my experience .
Have blast all the day !!!
Thanks,
Arunoday

[162Lehi09]

Hi, its 162Lehi09 here and I am based in beautiful Pennsylvania, Always been a printer before and after college. Makes home in Benny's state and have 3 boys. Me and my wife have our hands full with them and the shop. We print almost all kinds of things: from large format architectural plans to wide format posters. We also print offset, letterpress and digital (cannonpress), imprinting on pens, pencils, etc and silk screen. We added hot foil stamping this September.

I guess that things were better like before. Our industry is like a taxi business that waked up one day with passengers demanding Lexuses, Mercedes and Lincolns; instead of our reliable Crown Vics, Caprices and LTDs. The lower the prices, the heavier we invest in new technology and more dollars, chasing tickets, flyers, booklets, magazines, postcards, etc. In fact, we are now investigating whether to get a Presstek 52DI or a traditional GTO 52-4c. Our Kimoto get rid of our darkroom and silvermaster platemaker.

Looking to interact in a lively discussion with fellow members of Print Planet. Hello to all.

[savick]

Lavoro come operatore Mac nel settore PrePress da 20 anni, i primi 8 anni come montaggista (pellicole).

Job like operator Mac in the PrePress field from 20 years, the first 8 years like montaggista (films).

Abito e lavoro in Italia, nella citta di Reggio Emilia, abbiamo 3 postazioni Mac con la Suite CS4 e 3 chiavi di ArtPro.

Dress and job in Italy, in the city of Reggio Emilia, we have 3 emplacements Mac with Suite CS4 and 3 keys of ArtPro.

La mia ditta fa packaging ed è Leader in Europa, lascio la traduzione italiano-inglese di quanto scrivo ad un widget.

My company makes packaging and is Leader in Europe, leaves the translation Italian-English than I write to a widget.

Il flusso di lavoro viene gestito da Apogee dell'Agfa, il CTP è l'Excalibur sempre Agfa.

The job flow is managed by Apogee of the Agfa, the CTP is the Excalibur always Agfa.

Sono sposato ed ho una figlia di 2 anni, nel mio tempo libero gioco a pallavolo, faccio fotografie e montaggi video della mia famiglia con "Final Cut Pro".

They are married and I have a daughter 2-year-old, in my free time game to volleyball, make photographies and assemblys video of my family with “Final Cut For”.

[neruda]

Hi,

My Name is Juan Noboa, I am new in this industry and that is one of the main reason why I register in this forum to get more information in regards to printing equipment.

thanks,

Juan Noboa

[tobias]

Hi! I'm Tobias and I'm a software engineer. My daytime job consists of keeping the always-hungry HP Indigo printfarm I manage fed and happy. I'm not an operator; i'm the software engineer that builds, supports and manages the complete web-to-print software in front of the RIP's (so basically our customers build their own book/photobook/whatever on the side, click order, pay it, and it automatically ends up in a job on the press). Usually that means working in PHP and PPML (and I actually wrote a PPML lib for PHP that i'm planning to opensource) with some mySQL and other funky stuff.

I'm also a student at the Twente University here in Holland (Industrial Design Engineering) and love to dive and am an avid photographer.

[cdmaster1]

Hi,
My name s Scot. I've been in the business 27 years and learn something new almost every day. Heidelberg demonstrator in late 80's and early 90's. Spent fifteen years or so after that as a production manager in a UV/Conventional plant. Printing mostly POP displays, plastic cards and packaging, we also did a lot of commercial printing. I'm now a sales/tech rep. for a world famous OEM roller company. If you want to know anything else, just ask.
P.S. I love this site.

[MJNC]

Trish;
Thanks for working on the ABC's Extreme Home MakeOver show. My husband and I watch that show every week and cry our eyes out together. IT IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT THING THEY ARE DOING! I even shop at CVS Pharmacy, because they support the show too. Thanks for being such an important part of community.
Peace!!
_mjnc