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I don't know anything about PUR glue specifically but my mom buys some kind of hot gluing compound from The West Coast's top ink & print resource - Great Western Ink in Portland Oregon for her puzzle manufacturing company. You could give them a ring?

I second @Stickman42 If you're not burned out yet and want to stick with printing industry for at least the next 10 years then it's worth buying the business. It's a hard grind but it's awesome to build something you own. Obviously make sure you really do your research first and understand how...

I agree with Priceline - It's an obvious purchase for us but we are primarily short-run only print shop. It's a staffing/training issue for us. With the DC-618 I don't have to spend nearly as much time training staff. They just select the matching template in the DC-618 and hit start. While the...

Here is a link to the 4.25in x 5.5in Canva Template - It's not the prettiest thing in the world but it gets the job done.

Hit and miss. We've had good luck recently in being able to send pre-setup canva templates to customers and get correctly sized files out of them. You really have to explain to them how to turn on their bleed settings and rulers and how to download things correctly. We solved this by creating...

I had this situation when I bought my print shop. I took the long view. Made no price changes the first year because that’s every customers fear with new ownership. Then took the price increase and averaged it out over three years and slowly increased the prices every year until they were back...

Is it crazy that I drool over print finishing equipment instead of cars like a normal person. What machine do you use for laminating? Do you just laminate one side or both sides? I wonder what that flatbed conveyor model costs?

I didn't comment on this thread when it was newer (2019) because I was only a year into hiring and working with employees. Now that I have 5 years of experience. It's not age that is the problem it's trainability and we can spot that in the interview. I actually prefer older employees because...

I think the whole point of comedy though is to take uncomfortable truths and put them in writing. The things people don't want to say out loud but everyone agrees with internally. Having said that I would probably find this more amusing if it had to do less with bashing management and more with...

Same. I don't see it as a violation of the rules, more of a "working within" the established rules. It's no different than my using splashtop to splash into the computer with the license to impose files.

Or just treat them like adults... hire people who can take criticism without taking it personally. I don't care how good someone is, if I have to walk around them on eggshells all day it's not going to work out. Life is too short to nurse egos all day long. We got stuff to do.

I use it a million times a day. My greatest fear... that someday this script will stop working with the latest update of InDesign and there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Or use a program like splashtop so you can access it remotely from anywhere.

I believe I tried cutting laminated sheets in our old Aerocut which is similar to the Duplo 618 (this was before we got our duplo) and the lamination got bound up in the slitters. I'm not sure that this would be a good use case for this style of machine. Maybe someone else is using them for...

#10s - $0.15 each A7s - $0.23 each $5 setup

I only know of two brands - Hammermill and Xerox. Does anyone else make it? Specifically for use in digital printers - text weight? Canon says we have to use 100% white bright paper for the image gradation adjustments. We don't normally stock either of those two brands. Obviously I can order it...

I can't speak to all of your issues so some of this won't help you but some might. I think it really depends on your workflow. When and where things are getting imposed vs. printed and what kind of print shop you are. We are a short run, digital only print shop with a fast turnaround time (2...

Awesome. That's exactly what I was hoping for.

Make sure you ask questions about the maintenance side of the equation as well on any UV equipment you consider and the cost of consumables and rollers. The previous owner of our shop bought a UV machine not aware that the cleanup time after using the UV machine (GW brande) was around 45...

Thank you for that detailed explanation. My main question is. How reusable is the time I spent setting that up. I don't mind the time it takes to setup a layout but I want anyone on my team to then be able to reuse that layout with new artwork without having to reset up the same thing over and...