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Before looking at the lasers, first check mechanicals, particularly check that vacuum pump is working and all vacuum holes in the drum are clear.

Any of the many MIS solutions for printers can capture times and allow scheduling of jobs. These are intended to manage the entire printing process from customer order through to delivery, so may be more complex than what you need to manage Prepress only. If you need simple task management only...

Once upon a time, Creo Spire was the Rip of choice for digital presses, with Harlequin coming in a close 2nd

As the 27" iMac has been discontinued, we replaced an old one with a Mac Mini M2 Pro paired with a 28" Samsung and a 24" Dell monitor. It's a great little machine. If you need 16:10 screens, you could use the Dell 30". IMO the Apple displays are overpriced which is why we didn't go that way.

This is called crash folding, small quantities can be done by hand, there are machines to do larger quantities, check with your local mailing house if they can do this for you.

We have a collaborative approach, where press and prepress openly communicate to resolve any issues. Prepress and sales however is another matter.

Adestor is excellent for digital printing https://www.adestor.com/en-US/Pages/default.aspx

There are a number of soft proofing solutions on the market, but Insite is the only one that will render a RIPPED proof from Prinergy and mirror all activity in the workflow and proofing solution.

I could be wrong, but I don't think there's a great deal of demand for dot matrix printers in this group.

Evo is a basic version of Prinergy suited to small operations, Connect is the full version of Prinergy running on top of an Oracle database with many addons available such as APA, RBA etc, comes with Preps and can be customised for your needs by licensing the JTPs and modules you need. Powerpack...

I also had a Scan Man (Logitech iirc) and the guide frame to go with it. I had a desktop waxer, the one with the motorised rollers and the heated wax bath, one day I forgot to turn it off at the end of the day, next morning the shop was full of smoke and the waxing machine was under the bench...

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Probably something like this Hot foil stamping machine

I used Ventura Publisher on GEM for many years before I even heard of Quark Xpress or Aldus Pagebreaker

Technically a wet proof should be produced on the same press, same stock and same separations as the final printed product, at this stage any colour profiling should already have been applied as separations have already been completed. Ink densities should have been measured and recorded from...

Disable all your startup items unless they are absolutely critical, including Creative Cloud, One Drive etc, I had a Dell Workstation (Xeon processor, SSD, Windows for Workstations) that was performing like a dog, disabled startup items and now it flies. The machine was going fine until...

You need Heidelberg Prinect Metashooter. Every so often one comes up on the second hand market, if purchasing from Heidelberg, they will ask for you soul, your firstborn and a lifetime of servitude :)

Creasing and scoring are often used interchangeably, I have always referred to the reshaping of paper using a rule and matrix as scoring, as that is what I was taught as an apprentice. I don't know if the definitions have changed over time, or if they differ geographically. This is the result of...

Funny how so many customers "don't understand" when it comes to materials they have supplied! Perhaps "don't understand" is code for "it's your problem now"

Not crash numbering, just numbering. Crash numbering is when you number an entire NCR or OTC set by using the impression of the numbering machines to crash through the set, most commonly seen on continuous collating machines such as a Didde Glasser.