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They have meetings where they report to everyone above them about what the person below them did. The person below them spent all day having meetings about what the person below them did. Somewhere under that pile is the person trying to actually do something but they have to have approval from...

The machine has been calibrated to death at this point. I had the techs come calibrate it themselves and they sent canon’s fiery expert. And we tried using a new spectrometer as well and new white plate. I’ll give changing it to perceptual a try tomorrow. It just seems like a bad idea to leave...

We have multiple teachers that print with our print shop because the district’s print shop is too expensive. They get a budget for printing every year and can use that budget at the school district’s shop or if they print with us they just put in for a reimbursement out of their budget. Once...

We have a persistent problem with one of the canon printers (out of four we are running) where everything is printing with a tint of pink. It’s not just one customer’s file. Canon techs have gone over the machine and say there’s nothing wrong with it. They’ve reloaded fiery software multiple...

For those of you who are using Fiery, what are your default settings on this screen and why did you choose them?

I'm starting to think the Fiery is the source of all our color issues as well.

That's what I was thinking. 5k a day seems like a lot of volume for one machine. The j75 will run really awfully unless you're running a certain amount out of it on a regular basis. It doesn't work as a backup machine at all. At least it didn't for us. We had a j75 left on a lease when we got...

We've been having trouble with our DC-618 not fully ejecting sheets and the problem is getting worse with time. We clean the rollers regularly but we've put about 700k prints through the machine in the last 20months. The repair tech says we probably need to replace the rollers as they wear out...

Sometimes I like to look at old photos of busy streets from 100+ years ago just to look at the sea of people and realize that... every single person in those photos is dead. It reassures me that the problems we think matter today probably don't in the long run.

I appreciate this sentiment. I still look back at the people I hired when I first started out and feel badly about how I managed and worked with them. I'm only now starting realize that they just weren't the right people and I should have gotten rid of them much faster than I did. I used to...

We have a Duplo 618 and the magnetic guides that come with it are not very robust. Specifically the longer one for the intake tray. Additionally, the ones that came with our machine are not actually square which causes problems as the stacks raise and lower because the paper gets stuck unless we...

FedEx just did this for their online shipping software. The old layout worked perfectly, had all the features in a neat short layout that was entirely visible with almost no scrolling. The new layout requires multiple clicks to unhide different parts of the screen and is missing fully half of...

One time I was dropping off a mailing at the local BMEU and saw firsthand how the USPS handles boxes. The guy had a cart positioned about 15 feet away from him and was chucking various packages from the back of his truck to the bin... I had so many questions most of them were just .... why? But...

Canon has told us to do the following: 1) Print at least 50 sheets every day before we start our print shift to warm up the machines then 2) Run auto gradation adjust with initialize on using the hammermill paper 3) color calibrate for the media type every day And quote “some customers are...

The one with the best service and techs available.

That's why we got rid of ours. The machine is cheap to run until you need service or consumables and then we found it was less expensive to just run envelopes through our printers AND that we actually were about the same on time except on very long runs. I was also floored by how awful the...

This is actually more reassuring than you know. I was starting to think there was some obvious well-known process that everyone else knew and I didn't. It's starting to sound more like, we're doing the eyeball thing and it's mostly coming out within reason. I don't really have many customers...

Thank you for this info. I’ll be investigating today.

Everyone keeps talking about machine matching. But let’s say I get two machines with matching output. How do you know the output they’re outputting is correct?

1) We have the Canon v1000, two c810s and a c910. The 810s have baby fieries on them. The 910 and v1000 have full fieries. 2) yes the operators use the exact same method for all files. Nobody can print to the printers direct from acrobat even if they wanted to and they don’t because they don’t...