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There's a company that sells the sheets. Multi-loft They have sheets that have pressure sensitive glue dots built into them and you print on regular cardstock and then put the thicker sheets in between and the pressure from your guillotine cutter activates the glue dots. I never really could...

Yes. It's all a money game - somebody is making money on the offset and nobody is tracking whether those funds are actually being used for what they say they are being used for. For example: I have one print shop location that is not allowed to recycle any paper that gets cut smaller than your...

Yes. We've had this happen a lot and reported from the people who use our MGX paper for menus. We also had this issue with the Synaps paper. If it's not coated (UV Coated) then the oil from people's fingers will start to wear the toner off. The solvents used to wipe the menus down will also...

All three maintenance companies I've worked with had a dedicated "Fiery expert". One of them was not a bad guy but tended to do more talking than knowing. He was halfway decent at helping me solve Fiery based problems. His big flaw I think was that I don't think he's ever actually worked in...

Update: I reached out to our local Fiery guy and he forwarded my request to add duplex to the printer logs. He just got back to me that they are assigning a team to see how this could be implemented.

This is all great info. Thanks everyone! I appreciate it.

Our shop has a BMEU permit but as a general rule we aren't a mail house. We don't do very large mailings (usually under 1000 pieces) so we've been able to manage our mailings without specialized software or using the online tools the USPS provides for smaller operations. We have been getting...

Seriously, trying to explain this concept in a fool-proof way makes my brain hurt. It especially matters when someone wants a quote and you find out later that when they said 170 pages they really meant 170 sheets printed double-sided. And it seems like every print shop explains it differently...

Agreed. The winners are going to be the people who learn how to write effective prompts. I also found chatGPT to be better at this than grok (so far) but the envato elements ai is way better than both of them.

I'm gonna have to play around with that.

The biggest thing we are seeing is that people are submitting chatGPT generated images that they spend a lot of time working with chatGPT to create. IE. I got one the other day from a salon where they used chatGPT to create a flyer with pricing on it for all their services. ChatGPT refuses to...

I was able to set an automated daily export of the fiery log very easily. AI and I were not able to setup a reliable method of inferring the correct quantity/imposition and correct number of prints. Our team uses a very reliable method of naming the files that go to print. We also know how all...

If the fiery log is just for tracking clicks then it literally doesn't need to exist at all since the printer itself tracks clicks. I don't want another piece of paper that I have to pay for clicks to print and then look at manually and physically review. I wanted to be able to write a piece of...

I was hoping to use the fiery logs to track when there was an error made on our operators side. For example if they printed the wrong quantity of a job, accidentally printed double-sided vs single-sided etc. The problem is that without the duplex logged this becomes very unreliable. For...

That doesn't help on multi-page documents if you're doing a gangup run. It also doesn't help if you are using the unique collate cut imposition settings. There is no accurate way to "infer" duplex reliably with the options provided. I just don't understand why this wouldn't be an automatically...

Am I just missing this information? I cannot fathom why the fiery wouldn't record if a job was printed duplex in it's logs but I don't see anyplace for this information. If it's not there does anyone have any idea WHY fiery would choose to not record this information in the print logs? It seems...

ChatGPT and I have built a few fun things in the last few weeks. Will it get used, the word is still out on that but it honestly is fun. An enjoyable way to spend time.

I flat out won't do business with companies that refuse to disclose their pricing upfront. It is incredibly wasteful of everyone's time and energy. If that's their model upfront it won't get better. The MIS systems out there end up bloated and overpriced because they always start out basic but...

Oh good. Because if someone is charging you 28 cents then I could confirm that you were being robbed. Canons are usually around 3 cents so you're probably okay on the click charge. I suspect that by next year Canons will be up closer to 4 cents.

Society itself will get dumber. In the sense that we will lose the ability to know how certain things are done. Just like the other thread mentioned. Certain skillsets are dying out and everyone assumes that someone knows how it's done but once those people leave the field people truly are going...