Re: A New Machine
I'm not a buyer, but an operator (now) of a Presstek 34 DI. I've seen all the other machines mentioned and they do produce pretty good work, but now I've had hands on with this 34 DI I have to say that for 1,000 to 20,000 (or more) run lengths, I've never seen a press this acurate on either color or registration. To seee sheets coming off that machine ata rate of 6500 s.p.h (they keep telling me it will run at 7,000, but the paper don't always agreee with that), I'm impressed. I've been at this trade for over 35 years and seen a lot of standard offset, web, rotogravure, flexo, tec. and I have to say that the per unit price in this press can't be beat. One drawbcak is that the 34 only goes up to about 12.3 x 19.3 (or 34mm portarit) yhe other Presstek machine is a 52mm landscape machine but I couldn't figure out what niche that press would fit. 20.4 x 14.7 doen't seem to fit much in the way of daily publications, newsletters, anyone out there know different?
Lammy, Robr, nice to see you again, thought the Prepress forums guys wrere getting scarce.