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European specs are quoted in ISO216 paper sizes, US specs will be quoted in US sizes. Certainly this side of the pond, printer speeds and model numbers which include the speed as part of the numbering convention, are based on A4 size, irrespective that A4 is not a production size. My math...

350k A4 @ 100ppm = 58 hours work / 20 days = 2.9 hours per day. Most shops are active 8-9 or more hours per day and most work more than 20 days per month, leaving plenty of inactivity time, a couple of mornings for tech visits, etc. Looks reasonable to me. As an aside, if running those...

I would recommend the C4080, but not the IC-609 OEM controller. Definitely go for the Fiery alternative. We didn't really look at any of the inline finishing options. Whatever you do, test decent quantities of your own jobs on your own substrates to be 100% sure a machine can do what you need...

We bought the OT-510 (output tray) as we have a well equipped offline finishing room and prefer not to have finishing tied to one engine. The TU-510 is the three sided trimmer unit.

Linkedin and the trade press are your friends. You can easily find the details of your country's COO, CFO, state MD etc and email them a complete dossier (email naming conventions tend to be the same from top to bottom within most organisations). Your woeful summary, presented in the format...

^^ This. A new customer, you've not seen the colour of their money. Even getting a payment on account to cover a couple of hours' pre-press work locks them in to some degree. Without that, they could still walk elsewhere after you've exchanged dozens of emails, proofs, etc.

Hourly artwork rate

A customer has asked us for this 260GSM Recycled Ivory Fleck Card, which is available at various consumer Arts & Crafts stockists in A4, however we are looking for either this or something comparable from a UK merchant/trade supplier in SRA3. Our merchant (Premier Paper Group) have offered...

Not on either of our production machines. Many years ago, we had an HDD corruption on a C454 after a very windy night when there had been multiple power outages (IIRC the UPS logs reported something like 15 power cycles) Obviously the C454 wasn't protected.

Indeed. If your volume isn't enormous, there are some nice compact solutions around nowadays, that don't need to take up an entire wall. For example the Quadient (formerly Neopost) DS-75i with its 50" x 20" footprint is 3" smaller all round than that Duplo DF-1300L. It costs a bit more, but...

The mystery of nuances in language, e.g. "He knows his S*** " vs. "He knows he's s*** " ....and we wonder why people from different cultures get confused sometimes!

Thanks as always @jwheeler - that's all good learning that will be put to use!

We have only recently started printing envelopes on our KM C4080, I perhaps naively thought you could only put peel & seal stock through the fuser. The peel & seal stock we have run successfully was out of the box flap closed and we ran them flap closed from Tray 5 (with the flap as the leading...

It's the same across most industries - not just a print thing. And it often happens to people at a stage in their life where they are dependent on that significant overtime income to top up an average hourly wage.

Our C4080 is predictable and shuts down quickly, irrespective of what work it has done. Whereas our Pro951 (B/W) takes between 30 seconds and 30 minutes to perform a cooling operation and shutdown. There is no correlation between the work done and the shutdown time. One one day it may have...

Abdul, for what it's worth IMO you are completely on the wrong track. As I've already indicated, I believe you should become excellent at the potentially profitable large format work you currently do. In your shoes, until my online reviews were >95% I would be concentrating all efforts on...

@jwheeler I was experimenting with the textured stock setting yesterday on some 285GSM and 320GSM Fedrogoni samples received and noted on the C4080, the "textured" paper type disables the use of de-curling settings in the relay unit. The job is single sided and did need (-5) de-curl to come...

any thoughts, guys?

Do bear in mind this article is TEN YEARS OLD on a topic where technology, R&D are very fast moving.

To date, our typical work has mostly been using regular coated white stocks and uncoated stocks, white and tints and occasionally synthetics. We have a new customer for cards & notelets who only wants recycled substrates and likes 'Arts & Crafts'/Rustic papers like Ivory Flecked, etc. I have...