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I have seen Mach5 samples, they do smear and run, but it is not real bad, you kind of have to rub on it. I suspect that the manufacture will come out with a more water fast ink set, it would be great if it was something that could print on AQ, then it could double as an addresser. I will say I...

I have not tried it, but my guess would be no to both, offline UV would definitely not work because by the time you offline coat it the varnish would be dry and UV would seal the varnish and instantly turn to a solid, strikethru needs to be able to migrate through the AQ coating inline. As far...

PMS can get pricey, and make sure you fully evaluate the time involved to clean out a unit and get it ready to print, could be a deal breaker, Indigo is a beast for b/w and process, but I don't know of anyone running a ton of PMS for above reasons...

Indigo does nice job on toothy cotton like Strathmore, may be adhesion problem with heavy coverage, but does not have shinny toner look

Best time ever to get into the business... Any industry in transition has opportunity and this is no different. Build a nice book of business as a broker then see what happens. Equipment is ridiculously cheap, I've seen million dollar presses sell for 100K. And just think of the competitive...

Polar sucks!!! yep I said it, most of the people chiming in probably have Polar 137, which yes are nice, but I had a Polar 66, and it was a hydraulic knife in the same class as the Challenge 305, but Polar 66 is way more expensive, parts are more, and electronics suck, so when it stops working...

Your position requires you to be a cool-aid drinker, and that is fine, and with 600+ people if you can get a small buy in from people then you may be able to move the needle a c-hair and it could be worthwhile, but don't preach to the mom and pop shops or the 15-25 people general commercial...

Are you an owner of a printing company? Not sure if you are said consultant or not, but I doubt you are operating in the real world of printing. Not everyone has the talent or the drive or the motivation to do every job in a printing facility, sometimes you have to fire people for not...

I think what the cartoon shows is that many of the lean principles are already in practice. A production manager knows who is most and least productive of his operators and if someone slacks off he fires them and gets someone new. This is done every day from small shops to big shops anecdotally...

I almost think it was screens answer to high LPI screen sets like fuji's co-res, because it starts at 210, but goes up to like 360, I have tried 230, but never had the stones to go higher, worried I would get smaller dots at the price of less image depth...

it is a screen set called: TF1-724SQU01H-12 It is kind of a squared off round dot, NOT like the picture Gordo posted. But maybe the square feature of the dot does not like the 45 angle, which I assume is what it is set to but I cannot find a number for the angle, says screen angle: and you can...

not really, can help to keep the whole book block the same, but not an absolute...

Don't hate... Don't hate... Guy came in looking for a job, kind of entry level skill set, said his quick print boss had just fired him, because when compared to the employers peer group his direct labor costs had been way high, he said he was making $20 hour doing light bindery, I said I would...

Running a 210 lpi square dot out of trueflow, I have tried different shapes but they don't look great, so I like this screen set but black type looks very steppy because of the angle it is set to. I swap it sometimes with Cyan on certain jobs, but wondering what people are running angles at? And...

Does anyone know what Duplo is selling Alpha stitcher for, in round numbers? Anyone running one? Good, Bad, otherwise?

maybe hard to do, an old BQ-260 could be had for $5000, and could handle that volume in about week, would need to offline trim if you don't have a cutter...

Had similar problem on energy elite, was just testing so did not try a bunch of things, but seemed like OK with new chem, but 1000 plates or a month into chem had scumming, and picture framing...

S.o.p. S.o.p. Everyone has risk involved, shouldn't the end purchaser... Manufacture risks capital in R&D Leasing Company risks capital to bank Dealer often times guarantees a % buyback if default it is only fair that you be personally liable if you default on the equipment, everyone else...

UV UV UV coating is nasty stuff, it really hacks me off when I see vendors talking up UV as environmentally friendly, technically once cured it is innate, but anyone that has worked with UV coatings, UV inks, UV large-format will tell you it is not pleasant to work with...

Temp Temp Had this same problem about a week ago, messed with all the usual fixes most of which have been offered up in this post, but the one an only thing that fixed it was changing pad filters on royse and blowing out the coils and coming down from 55 to 52 on the set point, next day NO...