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We went from a 645 to a 618. We had to drop the 645 because it was End of Life from Duplo and parts were getting scarce. I wonder if you would have the same issue with a DC745 - EOL and parts. The 618 is great.

@AP90 Adding photo lab type services to an exisiting print shop is very doable. I actually think it is a great opportunity for some small subset of retail facing quickprint shops. I have worked with a couple to do that. DM me if you are interested in that.

This looks to be confirmation that Sharp will be selling press and printers made by Fuji: Sharp to showcase production print at Printing United – The Dead Pixels Society

We sold our "completed a 5 year lease" V80 for the 10% lease buyout to a friend as a favor. So, that is probably your floor. We could have just turned it in - we didn't make anything, but the guy wanted it. People may be worried about potential EOL. The clicks on yours is not bad; it probably...

The 4100 and 1100 machines ahave similarities I heard a sales engineer joke: "Subtract 3000 from 4100." There are some improvments in the Fuji machine such as suction feed. Plus the AI buzzword. For photolabs there will be possible improvement. I think the 1100 is ways off - Fuji hasn't...

Perhaps Fuji is using Sharp for sales is also a way to fill in on the service side until Fuji has a large enough service team to support sales. Or, it could be an efficient way to sell the smaller Apeos machines. Fuji has been hiring a lot and slowly adding territories that sell Revoria as their...

Mostly simple paper jams. Also sensors that get dirty and shut down things too frequently. Nothing big.

We went from a Versant 80 to a Versant 4100 and also had Docu 700 long ago. We loved the reliability of the V80 but the V4100 reliability has not been quite as good. Still, we have good service from Xerox and even though we have made more service calls on the V4100 we have never been down very...

The word we got is that hp is requiring exclusivity going forward so Lexjet would have to drop Canon, Epson etc. We have heard they will not do that. Lexjet loaded up on hp product but are running out now and cannot get more. Hence we need a new distributor. In my group that means about 12...

Now that hp cut off Lexjet as a distributor, what is the best alternative for Latex ink, heads etc. ?

Raminmd, you mention "not quite photographic quality" - an aside, we ran some tests of Felix Schoeller ePhoto on a XeroxV4100and it is very, very close to photo quality. Probably fine for a consumer grade photo lab. Lab owners ( me - 40 years running a photo lab) are very conservative on this...

Low cost of operation will be likely be only available with more expensive machines. Low cost printers will likely have a high cost of operating. Here is a lot of advice on volume label making: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqQjvDgwkJ03Dy80ksNEOg

Our V4100 has multiple sensors in the paper paths that can cause shutdown when they are dirty. The main culprit seems to be the sensor above our 3 hole punch finisher - every sheet has to run through there. Regular cleaning has greatly reduced jams. YMMV

You have to swap components out as there are just 4 drums, etc. We saw samples from the new small Versant and compared to Iridesse they were pretty unimpressive. We had a V80 and considered the swap out capability on the new smaller Versants. We ended up going with the larger Versant which...

bcr: If you really want to understand color work at a basic level, especially when working with photos, I highly recommend Margulis book, it is really the standard in the photo business:Professional Photoshop You will understand theory well enough after mastering this to solve many problems. It...