Recent content by rcm355

Look into Tekra's PVC products. Never had an issue with them.

Purchased in June 2008 and under Ikon service agreement until 2011. Is equipped with large capacity drawers, external Fiery, and large saddle stitch booklet maker with face trimmer. Currently 750k impressions and not in use. Can be run for test pages. Needs PM service. $11,500 without...

I have worked with KBA for the past year and a half. Great people, very responsive with wonderful support.

The easiest way to produce what you have is to run them on Teslin on an HP Indigo or another digital press that will print variable data. The sheets will need to be thermally laminated (not cold laminated) and then die cut. The die cutting can be done with various machines, but since it is...

I am looking into buying a used Indigo 3050 or newer. One of my operators is a former Indigo operator, but my concern is future servicing, etc. Any experience or input would be appreciated.

I run an Ikon 650 (same thing as the KM) and a C900, both with full booklet makers. What do you want to know about either?

I have a 900 and it is my second machine. The first one was down for 45 days with a bad board. I run 12.5 x 18.5 100lb Endurance silk cover. The setting I use is Thick 2 Special 3. We clean the rollers in the drawers several times during the day and if we do not it will pull multiple sheets...

Mine was delivered today and it gets assembled tomorrow. I will update everyone after the weekend. All of my testing with the 900 went very well, but we will see once it is in actual production mode. We are running 13x19 100lb gloss cover which it will duplex, also Teslin and PVC, up to...

Probably because that makes too much sense. It is very obvious there are NO entrepreneurs working in the corporate world these days.

Well, I can only speak from my personal experience with the local Ikon office in KC, they have been great and whenever there has been an issue with my 650s they are right on top of it, no questions asked. As for the Ricoh, I too am a bit concerned about it being the first year for this model...

Do not forget about the variable data and personalization capabilities with digital. I have been looking to go offset too, but keep on going back to investing in digital technology. Envelopes and others are a no can do though.

I looked at that option, but each booklet contains variable data as well as variable contracts per booklet, so I decided to take as much of the "potential" human error out as possible and that is why we do them via the press.

It is the same machine, I am also in the market for a S2000

Well I will be the first to speak up, I am replacing 2 Ikon 650s with 2 Ricoh Pro C900s. They will be installed mid April so I will let everyone know how things go. For my applications it is a great move since I need a full booklet maker. I also run a bunch of 13x 19 100lb cover which I can...

Thank you for all the feedback. I am specifically looking at the S2000 for PVC card production and I have a final number from HP that is just north of $200k. They want to put together a package deal for me on the 3500 so I can run my matching collateral pieces on this machine. The 3500 came in...