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    Digital Printing Sage Wisdom

    easy one to answer and the guys above have said it, know your market and whatever you do, dont take the word of a sales rep. Have a look at the customer expectations documents. most machines have one and it will give you the real story. Do yourself a favor if your looking at a large spend, check...
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    docucolor 6060

    if your thinking of running high quality products on the 6060 it WILL cost you a small fortune as they need constant servicing due to the poorley designed fuser. We have had many Xerox machines 2040, 5252, 6060 and now the 5000, you are looking at an engineer every 20,000 A4 impressions which is...
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    quickmaster di good or bad? running costs

    Hi guys we currently run a Xerox 5000 and a 250, I am a time served litho printer and was looking for options to buy a di, what are the running costs on these machines. is it special ink? how much does the ink and plates cost? and the really key point are they really that bad? there are lots of...
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    Digitally produced NCR sets

    Hi does anyone out there succesfully run NCR sets on a digital machine? We have a Xerox 5000 and a Xerox 250 and have tried the Xerox ncr papers but the waffle badly and you have to stand at the deilvery to make sure they dont jam. When you put together the books they look like they have been...
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    DC2060 Image Quality Issues - Help Please!

    The curving could be cause by a couple of things, second btr pressure across the sheet especially if its worn unevenly or a support roller inside the ibt assembly. Yes we had that wonderful problem once too!
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    Xerox 5000 - Top/Bottom orange/red color varies.

    You wont solv it, the colours drift periodicaly as you have found out, its down to wear on the dev housings ans drums loosing their transfer voltages, if you find it goes the same everytime you might want to ask them to change the dreaded smile curve? they dont like doing it but it certainly...
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    DC2060 Image Quality Issues - Help Please!

    Hi, the problem your having is indeed down to paper types, or should I say your Xerox.....I have been there my friend and basically it comes down to transfer voltages. Different stock weights and finishes need a range of different transfer voltages and the trailing edge is the first to show it...
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    Honeymoon is over....

    In my opinion an external rip will not help. We have a DC5252 & DC5000 and a DC252 and with all machines flattened and the standard SWOP settings the 252 I would say is at least 15% darker by default. The best settings for us have been Euroscale but the way around it is to go to your tab at the...
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    Billed for Color on B&W Printing

    Can I add my bit, I have used Xerox / Fiery and Konica / Fiery for 5 years now and you can never rely on it totally unless you send as greyscale etc but where it realy screws up is in brochures. We print complete paginated brochures an feed through the booklet maker, if you get a booklet that...
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    Xerox 700 vs. Canon C6000

    Another issue to look at guys is the physical size of the imaging unit...or more specifically the imaging belt. What no one tells you is that although some models quote a certain speed on stocks the 'new breed' of machines use a shorter belt which really slow the machine down in duplex mode as...
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    New Digital Device and VDP Software Advice

    If your happy with the quality of your 250 then the 700 is for you but if you want better sharper images and fine screens for the money you wont go wrong with the 5000 Xmpie is stonking by the way but you cant beleive how sloooow personalising images can be. Even using a top of the range quad...
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    What is the better VDP?

    Hi, not quite the case we bought xmpie studio a few months ago and the studio already comes with Uimage and Uchart. The uimage is the personalise your name in clouds etc. Very powerful, it is very good and already created a bang for us, but what they dont tell you is how slow it can be. If your...

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