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Here's our use case. We need to be able to cut a variety of covers to the bleed box from a 13x19 sheet. for example 3 6x9 with a 1" spine 1 6x9 with 1.125" spine 5 7x10's with a 1" spine etc... All of the covers are 1 up at this point in the process. The standard stock is 8pt with between a 1.0...

Editing Duplo reached out to me. We're located in Lancaster County, central PA. and are looking for a local Duplo dealer. We're looking at the 618 & 648. I've reached out to Duplo via form, email and voice mail. I haven't even received an auto reply.

We're a book printer and having a UV coater and potentially a foil stamp unit to replace our Kluge is a nice idea for our covers. I have no experience MGI however and would like any information I can get.

The company that I work for bought BCC Bulkmailer through Quadient before I started here. My issue is we can't get Quadient to send us an invoice to renew and I currently can't use the software. I literally can't get anyone to take our money! I'm going to reach out to BCC and Quadient again...

At my last job we had a Morgana DocuCreaser manual creaser, I see that Morgana discontinued this unit and are only selling a powered version. Does have an alternative recommendation? We need it primarily for laminated dust jackets. with paper being so unpredictable we're running on heavier than...

In our ongoing KM1 Drama the techs have made the following recommendation. Optimize the problem PDF's and use the setting "Make Compatible with: Acrobat 10 and Later" The challenge is to incorporate this into our workflow for all job. This option isn't available in Indesign or Distiller. It's...

We've had a few jobs recently that are not printing correctly on the KM1. When we moved the jobs over to our Ricoh 9110 the issue persisted until we checked the "Adobe PDF Print Engine Preferred" box. Then the job printed fine. That little check box has bailed my butt out a lot over the years &...

Sorry for the long title. We have a variety of documents that we want to separate out into individual pages. Each document is several thousand pages. Ideally here's what we'd like to do. 1 rename each page label with the folio name. The folios names are not consistent but, the placement on the...

I searched the Fiery help files & mirror is supposed to be in the "Layout" tab, It's not showing as an option on our RIP. We have a VI job that needs to print wrong reading. We'll be outputting the PDF files from Fusion Pro. Thanks, Ray

I got an email this morning. Subject: Variable Data Question Hello, Do you utilize InDesign or Acrobat for your variable data service offerings? Thank you, Mike That's the whole email. No company name or contact info. The email was from meadowsps.com so, I went to site and saw they are...

We're looking for a solution to handle a small amount of warehousing and shipping. The total number of products is less than 50. We'll receive between 50 and 100 orders a month. We need a solution that lets us pick the item and generate a packing list. The products are going to ship USPS media...

We regularly archive our Fiery jobs on the Fiery server but, would like them to be backed up onto another device. We're currently trying to backup to a USB flash drive with limited success. When we archive large jobs 1GB+, the Fiery craps out. The flash drive is a 256gb USB 3.0 and the port is...

We're output a PDF From PS Mail version 7.2.7 and the images are noticeably more "contrasty" then the original PDF. Black areas are plugged and light colors are faded out. The original PDF prints fine. Any suggestion on how to adjust the output from PS mail to correct for this? Thanks Ray

We have a user who's account is crashing PW on one Mac. It works fine on other machines and other PW users can login using that Mac under all users. I don't think it's a Mac user account issue but, a Local PW issues. Anyone have a suggestion? TIA Ray

Hey all, A friend of a friend owns a small company where the Pre-press person left suddenly. Since they left they shop has been unable to get a plate out. I know they are using Trueflow 3.1 and printing to a Screen unit. As I understand it the Pre-Press person used to"polish" the PDF's, their...

We have had a DPM for several years and it's been bulletproof. Because of this we put one in our new office in VA to replace an Itek 617 (Yes people still use them.) This location was an acquisition so I'm trying to set up the RIP along with my Tech and we're having a bear of a time. We...

We've acquired a new business and have a customer whom supplies artwork every month pasted up on graph paper. The artwork is a collection of photos, inkjet prints, magazine photos and text. The project is monthly and is 20-36 pages. It finishes as an 8.5x11 Saddle Stitched booklet. The way it's...

I print the occasional transparency for a local screen printer and I'm trying to help him out. Does anyone know of a workaround on the 6010 to run transparencies over 8.5x11. The machine will not let you select transparencies or labels on larger sizes. Ray

I am not a purchasing expert of any sort but, I feel over the last 15 years I've been involved in a lot of equipment purchases, digital, offset, bindery etc. I feel that we've developed a system that is easily adaptable to any one in the industry. Since this is the digital forum I'll use that as...

So we end our 4 year lease with our Bizhub 6500 in March and are getting ready for an upgrade, buying the machine does not make financial sense at this time. We are looking at the following machines. Bizhub 7000 Bizhub 8000 Canon 6010/7010VP Xerox 7002 The 6500 has been a good machine but I...