What Equipment in Your Shop Do You Undervalue?

AP90

AP90

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So I was just working on a job and got to thinking about what pieces of equipment in your shop are often overlooked and dont get any love but are crucial to operating. Probably my number one piece is my Syntron J-50 Jogger. I actually picked it up used from a guy who bought storage units. Paid $400 for it and a few other items. New they run $2500+. And I can tell you we would never spend that amount for something like a jogger.

So what's in your shop that doesn't get any love but if it went missing tomorrow you'd be ticked off about?
 
We have a thing called a PowerLift for our digital printers that is like a mini forklift for our stackers. You can just grab the whole stack and take it right to the bindery table so you never have to do heavy lifting or manually jog stacks after they print. It's one of my favorite little things that I don't think about not having.
 
namelessentity said:
We have a thing called a PowerLift for our digital printers that is like a mini forklift for our stackers. You can just grab the whole stack and take it right to the bindery table so you never have to do heavy lifting or manually jog stacks after they print. It's one of my favorite little things that I don't think about not having.
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I WANT ONE!
 
I also will be putting this bad boy through its paces this week. Machine definitely gives us a little edge over printers our size as most don’t do perfect binding
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I won't say anything about my joggers because they are working, but I agree. My forms burster is about the only thing that doesn't give me a hassle, it just goes and I got it off ebay for cheap.
 
Shawnd said:
I won't say anything about my joggers because they are working, but I agree. My forms burster is about the only thing that doesn't give me a hassle, it just goes and I got it off ebay for cheap.
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I used to run a burster 20+ years ago. It was an oddly satisfying machine to run and they do just run...very simple machanics. Surprised to see there is still a need for forms bursting!
 
jwheeler said:
I used to run a burster 20+ years ago. It was an oddly satisfying machine to run and they do just run...very simple machanics. Surprised to see there is still a need for forms bursting!
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Loved my burster, too (back in the 90's). To watch that thing run full speed was a thing of beauty. Did not know you could even buy continuous feed forms anymore. We would print on them with high-speed band impact printers.
 
Yep, we have a couple customers that still print on dot matrix printers, hard to believe but true. Our old burster died and had to find a new one, that was a challenge, was able to find one that was barely used. Now we do the bursting since our customers bursters died.

We have one customer that will go in and tear out bills so you will get runs of 5-10 or less and have to reset, it sucks!
 
Shawnd said:
We have one customer that will go in and tear out bills so you will get runs of 5-10 or less and have to reset, it sucks!
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I remember that happening. I would get excited when there was a big stack that was connected so I could set it and walk away. Frustrating when there was small groups of 10-20 sheets.

Just curious, what is your customer printing that requires continuous forms?
 
Anyone remember "Envo-grams"? Two machines, side-by-side, running at the same time. The first machine would separate and roll up the carbon copy material, then it fed into the burster that would burst them out. It was AWESOME!
 
jwheeler said:
Just curious, what is your customer printing that requires continuous forms?
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Its all billing, some businesses are really behind times and refuse to update to newer technology. Matter fact the one customer just bought a new high speed dot matrix, yep Epson still sells them.
 
MailGuru said:
Anyone remember "Envo-grams"? Two machines, side-by-side, running at the same time. The first machine would separate and roll up the carbon copy material, then it fed into the burster that would burst them out. It was AWESOME!
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I remember seeing them at shows like mailcom back in the day, thankfully I never had the pleasure of running one.
 
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