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We are a tiny print shop that has gone 90% digital and with costs increasing drastically the past few years we are raising prices. Our largest client has an agreement with us to lock in their prices for 1 years periods, so we updated those last week. We got angry phone calls from their marketing...

I wanted to share my experience after recently switching from FusionPro to Meadows DesignMerge Pro. I have only run 7 jobs through it so far, but I must say I am very impressed. I just finished outputting a PDF/VT file from DMP with about 6,000 records, making a 12,000-page PDF. This took 1...

I was watching some videos on YouTube the other night about old computers and got to looking online for information about Linotronics and the RIPS, such as when the various models were released, etc. I was quite surprised by how little information I could find. I at least figured there would be...

Our Plockmatic 350 from 2019 has recently started folding inconsistently. We had the tech here once so far and he calibrated the length jogger and said you can't expect perfection, even though it has been very consistent up until now. What we are experiencing is that all stocks, coated...

We had a rush order that is White CB, White CFB and White CF. We don't have enough CF on hand and my thought was that we could just turn over the CB and it should pad to the CFB just fine. But then why would they sell CF and CB if they are the same?

We have been charging this for years, but I wanted to run this by some others in the business and see what they thought. We have a client that orders signs every couple of weeks. The specs are as follows: 2 copies of 13 different designs Double Sided and Heavy Coverage 4mm Corrugated Plastic...

One of our largest clients gets hundreds if not thousands of banners, but we were never able to get much of their large format work. A banner here or there, but that was it. They had some staffing changes and the new person we deal with had us quote 200 3x8 foot banners for them. We got a quote...

There is a lady that we have dealt with years ago who is a customer we don't want, but she is affluent and a member of lots of clubs and organizations as well as being a realtor, so we try to please her. She came in and wanted 2 Color prints run. We are a commercial printer and not a copy shop...

We have a Xerox 2100EX-P Controller for sale that works perfectly and includes the stand with table and monitor.

We have always offered payment terms of 30 days for estabished customers, but it has always caused cash flow problems when we get several customers placing large orders that we outsource. Our big suppliers all tend to want cash when the order is placed or 50 percent down with a few exceptions...

One of our 7200s has been having Fiery issues for over a month. Our tech replaced the HD and reloaded the software, but it is still having the Fiery Server software crashing at least every other day and it sometimes has the top display go black and just won't respond to any inputs. I called in...

We have some cartons on the shelf that have been there for a while. We used to use them all the time for regular customers who liked the finish, but the customers dried up and the paper companies we bought it from are no longer around. Does anyone know off hand where you can get this paper...

Every so often we get mailings or samples that were printed by a print shop about an hour away from us who is running a Xerox Iridesse. Being in a small town, there is a lot of talk about who installs what and it was the first in the area. The solid blacks on it looks noticeably worse than the...

We have an old Hohner Favorit stitcher that is giving us issues when stitching books over half an inch thick. About every third staple is screwed up. We had a repairman work on it and ever since it hasn't acted right. Does anyone have any recommendations for the service of such an old machine...

I have a little job we bid and print every year for a non-profit and it is pretty much the only job they give us even though we are 3 blocks down the street. I suspect that we are pricing system isn't charging what the market will bear. 300 Copies 80# Dull Cover 12" x 36" The price we charge...

We have been dealing with our 4th largest client for over ten years, but over the last year, they have started sending us a lot more work that was previously going out of state. They have become our largest client and they pay when they order. We enjoy working with them and the people we deal...

I spend hours daily using Acrobat with Pitstop Pro and FusionPro to work on customer-supplied PDFs and add variable data elements for mailings. Most of the time Acrobat works pretty well, but it does crash a few times per week for no apparent reason. Then we get to the more complicated files...

We have thousands of old files created in Quark that we use day in and day out, but it is only used for old files and new typesetting done by a specific employee. Our biggest clients send in file in Indesign and that is what I have used for decades. I decided to load Quark 2023 on my machine as...

I have run Xerox Versant machines for 5 years and Ricoh's 7210s for 4 years. Registration and print quality are much better on the Ricohs. Especially screens. That being said, I wonder how the Cannon compares. Has anyone had experience with all three brands and a similar level of machine...

I am by no means a color expert, but I do spend 40-50 hours a week dealing with customer supplied files and printing them to our digital presses. We regularly use RGB and sRGB files to print and they seem to give a slightly more vibrant colors when printed than CMYK FOGRA files do. I can't...