Recent content by wonderings

I used to do this, but now on a modern Mac with an M1 chip you are more limited to what you can run. For Windows earliest I can run is Windows 11 ARM. Can only run MacOS VM's that work with the M chip series. Same would go for Linux, needs a Linux version that runs on ARM. To update my last post...

I don't use it to store stuff, I find network stuff slow as it is. I use Backblaze to backup everything. No limit on storage size and for how I use it around $100 a year for unlimited storage. Works in the background so no slow downs.

Had a virtual demo of the new Profisio, or whatever the name is now. Pretty much all standard stuff I expected, what I was surprised about was their offer to train our operators to do as much maintenance as possible. This is a huge in my opinion, the more we can do ourselves the more uptime we...

The RIP is through a VM on the network, we have done a direct connection though with the RIP loaded on a PC and directly connected, no VM, no network, just a direct connection. Issue still occurred. The IP addresses are static. I was kinda hoping to hear from someone else with this same...

Canon seem like solid presses, what I don't like about Canon and Konica is that fact that you can't replace a colour drum yourself. We have a few Konica presses and for our large 12000 it is at least half a day for a tech to do a colour drum. Very complicated and for our volume being done at...

The common ground would be anything that is a vector file. We printing a lot of OEM decals for companies in the Agricultural sector. These are files properly made in Illustrator, some by us and some by others. This affects any file we put in randomly. We can go weeks with nothing and then it...

The black bar is just to represent images that we print, it varies and all files would be vector. It is not one file but random files happening randomly. I don't think they can see that in the preview otherwise they would not print it. I will check though. Edit: The preview always looks fine...

no, I am told we rarely use step and repeat so not that.

We have been fighting with an issue for a long time and have yet to find an answer. We have 2 Epsons being run through Caldera. Latest updates. I don't run it so not knowledgable on Caldera at all but thought I would reach out to see if anyone has had this issue. We have done various tests to...

the large format stuff does not need anywhere near as much attention as a digital printer will. I would not buy a digital press without a service contract. Even if you are capable of replacing things yourself you are going to need help. Lots of plastic and sensors in a digital press. Anything...

not much traction in this section. Sadly Pantone Color Manager no longer works with Adobe. In the past I could export the Pantone libraries with it but Adobe has seemingly plugged that hole. Not an offset shop anymore as we have gone all digital, still annoying that they are forcing purchase of...

Always a hard thing when you have to fight again for the client you fought for to get in the first place. The bigger they are the colder they seem to be to existing relationships. I personally only work with a small group of companies that I have long lasting relationships now and have our sales...

If I was in your shoes I would go in leaner with your pricing, reduce the markups to make something but ease the impact of your serious price increase. There is no way someone else is going to be that much cheaper then what you have in pricing unless they are not comparing the same thing. You...

I just priced this through our system and I am at $1.55 USD ($2.12 CDN) a book. Your previous pricing would be around our cost pricing. And just looking now I did not even include shrink wrapping. Your pricing was incredibly cheap and I can see why they are saying something for that increase...

Every offset shop I know off is using the Sonora plates. Been a few years since we had offset but when I talked to another shop a month ago they were using the latest Sonora plates which they were raving about. Maybe some adjustments are simply needed on your end to get the Sonora plates running...