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My boss was given a target to quote that was printed with bright colors then covered in a black latex scratch off materiel that made the bullet hits stand out brightly. I did some internet searching and found people producing things like this but no info on if we could do it in our offset shop...

just retired our ludlow about 6 months ago. can get type high foil stamp dies to do the business cards and letterpress announcements we were doing without a melted bucket of lead in the shop.

thanks that did the trick

i have a 340 page book that is being smythe sewn for the binding. i am laying out the job 8 up on a 20x26 sheet in prinergy. I have seen samples online that have a mark on the fold to show that the sigs are in order. is this mark something that preps should be able to make?

we got Einstein bagels just today

we use this companys bc slitters http://www.thermotype.com/RotaryDieCutter.html they have been in florida for around 30 years and stand behind their equipment

Wow. I was really hoping to get more out of this question. We are getting 35% of our quotes but we do quote RFP's. We also are growing and prospering.

I am at a wholesale printshop in the southwest US. over the last 6 months we have been using a new quoting program that gives us a bunch of feedback we never had access to before. I am curious what others think is a good percentage of bids won in todays market. Again we are wholesale only.

someone used too much luscious

preps 7 is crashing when returning to prinergy and giving me a java virtual machine error. the window closes and i loose my work. running windows 7 pro 64bit. is the problem in windows / java or prinergy / preps

if you put a sheet of 20lb bond behind the plate on the t-head, back off the impression to account for it, you will "shorten" the image by about 1/32" over the 11" length. i had an itek 960 that had crashed running envelopes that did this same thing. turned out the impression cylinder was...

http://shop.printersparts.com/shop/bindery-accessories/paper-cutter-parts/book-clamps-trimming-guides-for-cutter-back-gauge-46/ try two of these they bolt onto the back gauge and hold the spine edge of the booklets down so they dont pop up when the clamp comes down

pro blue 31.67 yellow 012 4.28 black 2.70 trans white 61.35 a little dirtier looking than pms 326

we do 30 plus pms colors daily. have never used electronics to measure. how would you even check the density of 8 point helvetica light on an envelope?

amen gordo

if 99 out of a 100 see it as good then its good. but even at $2300 you have to determine the customers worth long term. maybe try to find a compromise like splitting the cost of a redo or making up the loss on future work a little at a time. good luck

jog about 100 sheets of each "batch" of paper. turn the stack so that you are looking down at the shorter edge. if you see a smiley or frowny curl that is short grain. if the paper wants to fall over your fingers that is long grain. jogging handfulls and separating the different grains will be...

we have the same machine. alot of paper bending, messing with the air flow its all a matter of beating it into submission. on bigger jobs we still use a platten.

http://www.mgxcopy.com/blog/san-diego-printing/2012/04/12/paper-finishing-the-difference-between-uncoated-gloss-and-matte/ Uncoated Paper Uncoated paper is exactly what it sounds like – paper that has no extra coating or paper finishing. Since there is no coating, there is no glare on the...

most stocks with a digital offering have a silk line in text and cover weights. we also do a soft touch aqueous coating on our offset press that gives a silky feel.