Recent content by Dmiller35

Yeah, we've had ricoh's for years (9110, 8220, 8320, 7210) and have never had any issues like that. Could be a board issue. Also, when they replaced the HDD, did they replace one or all of them? One of our 9110s had an issue with an HDD and they ended up having to replace all 3 in order to get...

There are several different pricing models to choose from, I believe. One is fully click based and the other gives you lower rates depending on coverage. So, if you have a job that is only using 10% coverage, you get a much lower rate than something that has 40 or 50% coverage. This is useful if...

Option 2 is not the correct model as the SA-1420 SPL doesn't actually glue the sheets. It just presses 2 sheets together after one has been applied with glue. The better option would be the SA-1420. We have the R Gluer from Glue Machinery Corp. It applies a cold adhesive to the sheet and works...

I'll second the fact that quite isn't good for sequential items that need to stay in order. It is pretty good at being able to create custom margins, though. We have a Graphic Whizard slitter/cutter that has odd margins and gutters and we're able to set up our business cards easily. We also use...

Yeah, that's what we have. It works okay but it's slow. Just wondering if there are any better options out there.

Are there any good machines out there for folding nested or corner stapled sets? We have an old Profold machine that works sometimes but it's not consistent and they don't make parts for it anymore. Sometimes we can get through it by hand dropping them in our Stitchliner but that only works if...

We had issues with synthetic stocks on our 9110 and I had to go in and adjust some transfer voltage values in order to get good coverage. Nip adjustments could also help.

I'll add in a second suggestion for the Kirk Rudy FireJet 4c. As mentioned before, it uses the newer Memjet heads. These also use a different ink than previous models like the Mach5, Mach6, iJet NXT, etc. The ink lays down much better and the blacks are great. The black ink on previous models...

I was the primary operator on an Indigo 7600 (I think that is the correct model #) years ago and our shop purchased an iX 3200 last year. We've run into a few uptime issues but that doesn't mean that every machine will be the same. The quality is on par, if not better. Speedwise I believe it's...

Ricoh color machines seem to be pretty terrible when switching between stocks. Maybe the latest generation has gotten better but on our old 9110s, there was a huge delay between sheets unless we told it the other stock was the same paper and used the same profile. Our B&W Ricoh's are much...

As others have said, in an ideal world you'd get a perfect print ready pdf but we all know that doesn't happen. I have clients who will send me work with a great print ready file and then the next day they'll accidentally send me a pdf that's in reader spreads with no bleeds. That aside, when...

While I don't have experience with this exact machine, we have used Ricohs for many years. We've found that sometimes issues like this are a simple option that needs to be turned on in the service menus. I would coordinate with your tech to try and look into that. There are so many menus &...

The issue is really with the mills and not necessarily the distributors. The coated mills are still a mess. We primarily deal with Mac Papers and the best luck we've had is getting Sappi EuroArt (branded as MacGregor) from overseas. Since we're not in a large market, most of the domestic supply...

Same. I'm not hoarding, just trying to make sure we have what we need on hand. We saw a little increase for the primaries but I'm really dreading election season later in the year. Cover stock is already hard to get a hold of.

I think it really depends on what kind of variable work you're doing. FP is very powerful, but could be overkill if all you're using it for is simple addressing or letters with a salutation. If your workflow already relies pretty heavily on Fiery, the FreeForm may be the okay option. Personally...