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    The New Excuse

    Have you seen/heard of how many online crowdfunding campaigns (GoFundMe, etc.) there are for US medical bills? There are lots of them. People who have no other way to pay the medical bill have to ask the public for donations. Ironic, considering how Sécurité Sociale works.
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    Aleyant to Hold First Annual User Conference in Downtown Chicago

    EFI Connect: $1,399.00 Aleyant User Conference: $100
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    Repurposing Fiery E-82 Color Controller

    We had a Fiery E-82 Color Controller for a digital press that we upgraded and the new press came with an E-83. They were going to just recycle the E-82 but I carted it upstairs because I figured, "Gee whiz, it's got two quad-core processors" and it might make a nice internal web server or...
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    Searching for early adopters for advanced Web Vector editor.

    The type of workflow I would imagine wanting to use this for in a business-to-business context would be something akin to: An administrator sets up a project just the way they want it, with brand-approved designs, colors, fonts, etc. A customer then uses that project as a starting template for...
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    Searching for early adopters for advanced Web Vector editor.

    I looked through your demos for a couple minutes and my first impressions: It performed really well speed-wise and smoothly The UI is very clean and doesn't overwhelm Some other ideas that would help it be attractive to printers who sell print to other businesses (which is a lot of us): The...
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    Polar Mohr EMC 115 New Display

    We've tried 2-3 different monitors, 2-3 different VGA cables, and 3 different converter boxes. I don't think we've changed out the BNC cable coming from the cutter (if that's even possible?). The monitor we're plugged into is 60Hz - do we need a higher or lower refresh rate perhaps?
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    Polar Mohr EMC 115 New Display

    We've got a Polar Mohr EMC 115 cutter we use and the original display has long been dead. Someone rigged up a computer monitor to it using a box that converts the BNC output signal to VGA which kind of works, except the display on the monitor flickers constantly and doesn't really display the...
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    This is why we're doomed

    Fun fact: sometimes the reason you get oversized boxes from online retailers is because they have shipping software whose goal is to most efficiently pack a delivery truck. Sometimes small things need to be put into a big box in order to better support the overall structure packed into the truck.
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    Small mom and pop print shop. Looking for ways to update our workflow.

    Since there are a whole lot of directions you could try to push for improvements in, stop and ask yourself: which parts of your current workflow take the most time or are most cumbersome? What is keeping you from getting more/new business? If your job intake is small enough that a legal pad...
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    Marcom Central

    Yeah, no thanks. Advertisements from other web-to-print services are not welcome here. I didn't ask to hear your sales pitch - I asked to hear user feedback from users of a specific service.
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    adobe

    We do that and it works just fine.
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    Marcom Central

    It's a mountain of little cuts. Changes made to which user registration fields are required are global across every storefront for some reason, not company-specific; the application will spontaneously claim you have an "expired session" not even 60 seconds into working with the product listing...
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    Marcom Central

    We've been using EFI's Digital Storefront as our web-to-print for awhile now and want to run away screaming. Have been looking into Marcom Central, among others, as a replacement. Any users of this have anything to share about it? Good or bad (especially bad)? Digital Storefront looks good in...
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    It's hard to talk about failures.

    We once tried to put together a B2C storefront but the system we were using required a massive amount of setup. They had programmed in a lot of the "pieces" but it was up to us to put it together to match our capabilities. It kinda felt like being sold a car in individual pieces ("You can put it...
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    Online PDF preflight solutions

    The worst one is that zombie "What Web-To-Print should I get?" thread.
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    Forget Bitcoin - now it's Kodakcoin

    The stock trading robots love seeing the word "cryptocurrency" in a company press release. Easy way to get a bump in your stock price I guess.
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    I have a favor to ask.

    I know there can be good reason to grumble against being forced into a subscription model, but I can imagine this type of problem only multiplying in scope and quantity as time marches on. A standalone license may start being a bad idea if you're wanting new features down the road? I did vote...
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    Printing Industry Future

    I think your current work of "automating prepress tasks" is a good genre of work to be in. You seem like you want to stay in the industry. In the US, I think being the guy working "where the code hits the physical world", as Puch put it, is the place to be. Here, new software is the hot thing...
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    EFI PrintSmith Vision

    You've probably already made a move on something seeing as how I'm writing this in November, but our shop's experience has been that most of our EFI software has been overpriced for what you get and not very well put together and not well taken care of post-purchase (fixing bugs, improving...

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