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I would be contacting your dealers down there and give some jobs you would be printing a try on those machines. I only have experience with Xerox and they have been very helpful pre-sale. C70 looks like a light production, not sure what kind of print quality you will get off of that and what...

If you are setting up multi page, or 2 sided jobs in the same indesign file unless you go and make custom pages sizes in the document they will all be the same and when you export as a PDF they will all be the same. The registration comes from the press itself after that.

+1 Digital usually needs adjustment to line up the front and back. I am not familiar with the Indigo, but on smaller presses this is basically the case for most stocks if they have not be calibrated recently for alignment. What runs the Indigo? Does it use Command Workstation or something from...

+1 I do not like digital presses for photos. Sure they are OK, but they are not great photo quality like an inkjet. I am sure whoever you buy papers from will have samples of various stocks for you to try so you can see what you like.

That is a pretty big size for digital, not sure the iGens go that big. When I googled the HP indigo 3000 the max paper size is 29.5" x 20.8". I would contact HP and see if they have any used machines they are looking to offload with a service contract. Other then that if you are a print house...

What is the other dimension? You say wider then 13 x what? Really hard to advise without details. Do you need 20" x 70"? smaller? larger? Without details no one can give you real advise.

The big boy digital presses can print on larger sheets The HP Indigo says it can do 29" x 20" up to an 18pt. If it is just for one offs then I would see what wide format options are out there.

It is the "old" way of doing things. A salesman comes in, gives you all the info they have while trying to sell you on how great it is. The "new" world lets us research and find so much information we sometimes know more about the product then they do. I know with some digital sales reps for...

That is the first thing we do with any new digital press we get (we have only had 4). Normally would have the tech make that change on install. One tech did show me a way to change defaults through something called "CUPS". You access the printer through a web browser that is connected locally on...

I basically do the same thing, though I just lift the bypass tray cover which is right beside the rip so well within reach. Hitting cancel is way too slow.

Sounds like another subscription model for software.

How open is EngageIT VDP? With every new Indesign release will you need a new paid upgrade?

I find that frustrating getting prices for some of this software. Tried to look at pricing and the only thing I see under pricing is $1500 a month and I know that is certainly not for a VDP program for a small print shop. Not sure why these companies get all secretive about their pricing, I...

+1 I was thinking the same thing. You cannot charge purely based on a click charge. There is the expertise to setup the job, run the job, overhead for the machine, finishing, dealing with you the customer.... and honestly if you are trying to find out how much it costs a printer to print a job...

I have had that with some banner stands we have done that was loaded with sponsor logos. Each one had a pantone (well the ones that were set correctly). I just convert everything to CMYK, I find our customers are not that picky about the exact colour of their logo and the vast majority would not...

That is what I was wondering. Are the spot colours CMYK? If so why not just save them as process colours rather then spot. You get the CMYK makeup without all the spot colours

If using Indesign or Illustrator, just make sure every job is packaged correctly and you do not need font management software at all. Adobe made this really simple and one feature I love. Indesign and Illustrator will see the fonts packaged in the folder and use them without needing to activate...

Are you using Adobe CC? If so you have TypeKit. Not the biggest range of fonts but there are some good ones that span that various styles and would work for everyone logged into Adobe CC.

I think part of the problem is getting someone who knows how to work on these machines. We thankfully had a # for a guy who used to work for Presstek, was actually involved when we bought our Dimension from them and he had trouble trying to get our 425 working with the Sonora Plates, never...

I have always like date idea of having workstations customers could use, but the fact that you have to rent your Adobe CC software now makes that unrealistic unless you are bringing in a lot of money from the people who do not know how to properly setup their files. I could see this working...