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Hire a bunch of people to ride bikes to generate power. Problem solved and it's good for the job market.

Keep in mind that the black drum is ALWAYS live on every color. So even when you're running magenta it will always trigger the black drum. You can spot issues with the black drum if you swamp black with another color.

It won't be. The major supply chain issues are not getting resolved or fixed. The companies that stopped making paper during covid and/or were bought out by paper packaging companies are not going to go back to making printing paper. It's not going to be the same again until and unless...

We had two Xerox V2100s. The 910 is faster on cardstock than the 810 for sure. The 810 is a bit painful compared to the speed we had with the 2100s. Having said that, we had the two Xerox V2100s and the C810 in the same shop for 8 months and we still ended up doing almost all of our cardstock...

We've been very happy with our C810s. My only experience to compare with is Xerox and the quality is lightyears ahead of Xerox for sure. Service and uptime has also been better than Xerox was this last year. We've been running the 810 since December and then added a second 810 and a 910. how...

I used Stripe until we got big enough to get competitive rates from Square. This is primarily because I needed easy interfacing between our woocommerce storefront and our accounting software (Xero). When we first took over the business the previous owner was using one of those people that...

My distributor forwarded me an email stating that Neenah has temporarily stopped production on colored lines of paper while they focus on getting the core lines back up to full strength so I suspect colored paper is going to get rare for a while.

I agree 100% with this statement and stopped using them ages ago for exactly this reason. Unless you watch every single transaction they will frequently take more money/fees that they're supposed to. If you're a business they're terrible. I suppose they're good for "customers" but not as a...

There is a difference between being able to sue someone in court and having the courts battle it out and a corporation being able to decide willy-nilly to take your money. Paypal is a financial institution. The banking industry relies on people being able to trust that their money is safe...

It generally depends on the thickness of the book. Thinner books absolutely will crack. We use our offline duplo to crease the covers before inserting them for square folding.

I get super annoyed over this. Our shop is woman-owned and I had a vendor who wanted to make a big deal about how we should be willing to pay more money to their company because of they're also women-owned/miniority-owned/family-owned. I told them... I don't care who owns your company. I don't...

I will sometimes ask for a sample file first if a customer is using words in their email that I know are frequently confused. For example: A lot of customers will use the word brochure when they mean a fold and staple booklet. It saves everyone time if I don't send an explanation of what I need...

Almost everything. I don't know anything about the 833sc and maybe they've gotten better at producing things. Short list: Feeder is more reliable - The Aerocut feeder was designed poorly and we pretty much fought with it the entire time we owned it to get it to feed paper straight. They also...

We had a graphic whizard (aerocut) for years and just got the Duplo DC 618 - it's a thousand times better than the graphic whizard machine on all levels.

We've fired customers. Specifically ones that reject jobs that were printed within our shop's tolerance and the customer makes it clear that they're going to expect free reprints every time some minor tiny thing isn't perfect. Those customers cost us more money than they're worth and we don't...

We got rid of our Versant 2100s before the 5 year service window ended because of how awful they ended up being quality wise, service wise and because of parts shortages. The drums wear out so fast that you have to sit there and watch every job print to see if you can catch when the machine...

Plus it's expensive to flood the entire sheet for such a minimal difference since the clear toner isn't included in your click charge.

It depends on your mindset and your risk tolerance. I find the discount margins on larger runs to be more stressful. For example: A 60% margin on a small run is okay because if something goes wrong I can reprint the job and still be okay - I may not make as much money but I didn't lose money...

Just make sure you're checking your books periodically through the run. The main downside to this method is that if the printer double-feeds or jams then every book after that can end up in the wrong order. When doing a longer run I usually walk over to the machine and randomly check a book...

Volume discounts seem to make sense for offset because of the setup charges (burning plates etc). I’ve never run offset so I’m not super familiar with it. They sortof make sense for digital in terms of setup costs but in reality… I don’t get a discount on paper volume or click charges even at...