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    Tariffs - Have they, or, will they impact your business?

    I think there's a group that tracks the average annual cost of a traditional thanksgiving dinner?
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    Preflight is a NEED for large-scale print businesses.

    That's because they would have to actually READ the instructions. They would also have to have good enough reading comprehension. Nobody reads anything <insert wailing and gnashing of teeth>
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    Tariffs - Have they, or, will they impact your business?

    I don't know if it's specifically "Canadian" vs. that in many countries the "source" of news is almost exclusively CNN or state controlled. At least that was what I heard from my sibling when she lived abroad. The only news source in each of the four countries she lived in when she was teaching...
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    Tariffs - Have they, or, will they impact your business?

    Every other country in the world has tariffs against the United States. So if American manufacturers (example: Printing) want to sell printing to Europe or other countries they charge us tariffs. The goal is to discouraging Americas from competing against their manufacturers for "in-country"...
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    Preflight is a NEED for large-scale print businesses.

    I call this trying to out-stupid the customer... it's a losing position but still a worthy goal. This, the automation software MIGHT work but 90% of the time each job has too many points of failure. We still need a human to put eyes on each piece to spot those or reprints can cost too much. We...
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    How Many Tries??

    We used to have the same problem. We were giving customers a choice between our "fix it for me" and "I will fix it" option and charging more for the "fix it" option. Unfortunately, the people who were selecting the "I will fix it" were costing us MORE time and money than the "fix it for me"...
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    Partially die cut door hangers?

    To this day I do not know why someone doesn't make a door hanger hole puncher. We just need either a single or two part system. The two step system seems like it would be more successful. This setup for a 1.25inch round hole...
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    Black toner all over prints…is it bad developer?

    I’ve seen this before with Xerox printers but only when a black drum actually gets used to 100% of its life. Happened maybe half a dozen times in the 4 years we had our versants.
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    How does your company file projects once complete?

    I guess we are the odd one out. We tell customers that we can’t guarantee colors will be the same today, tomorrow or next week. We store digital files on a server and their job orders/details in our online system. That system sends us an email when the customer places their order which serves...
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    Looking for a reliable envelope printer and a stuffer

    We had an ijetcolor and ended up deciding that it was cheaper to run envelopes through our c810s (even with time and volume and click charges) than deal with the bad software, overpriced consumables and terrible maintenance routine required. We ended up selling the ijet for half what we paid. We...
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    Partially die cut door hangers?

    You should use your machine to perf 500 sheets and sell them to @YourCastle
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    Tabletop Creaser Suggestions?

    I actually bought one of those to have in our shop as a backup machine in case our Duplo 618 machine went down and we needed to process an order with creasing and/or perforations. For all practical purposes it's useless. It skews the paper badly when feeding (this is because while the front...
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    Mail Merge Numbering for Slitter Style Devices

    Do you have a fiery impose license? If so just output these as straight cards out of indesign. IE for 1000 single-sided cards. Indesign Document setup as 2.5in x 3.5in (two pages if you need double-sided - front and back). Mail Merge csv file is setup numbered from 1000 to 0001 (reverse order)...
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    ultimate slitter and creaser?

    Someone needs to make a machine that combines a rotary cutter with a slitter creaser like the DC-618. It would give you the best of both worlds.
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    Stitched ripping booklet

    Let me know if you come up with a fix for this because both of our Morgana's do this. Plockmatic charged us $1000 to come out and look at the machines and didn't fix it. They just looked at it and said Oh, there's a software update for this. Ran the software update and then never actually fixed...
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    PLOCKMATIC DBM-500 Bookletmaker +Trimmer +SquareBack options. 46k on the counter. New Jersey

    I recommend you forward details with pictures to the guy at printkingdom. It's easier for him to share with his co-worker because he doesn't have a login with Print planet which is why he always asks.
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    Xerox Versant 180 SIQA Density Uniformity Adjustment error

    There are a host of options in the Fiery to lower the brightness/toner usage etc. There's also a page where you can set the defaults if you find a setting you prefer to start with as your baseline. I do not believe there are options to turn it down on the machine as a whole, it's kindof a Xerox...
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    Windowed Envelopes

    This ended up being the problem. The envelopes we were using stated they were laser compatible BUT didn't specifically say digital. We ordered digital ones and they ran just fine.
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    Windowed Envelopes

    I thought I was but now that I've checked it's possible I ordered the wrong thing. I'm going to order a box from wcp that specifically says that they're for digital and give that a go.
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    Windowed Envelopes

    Has anyone been able to get these to print on the newer Canon printers? We were able to print windowed envelopes on our c810 but never on the v1000. Recently we switched to running two v900s but neither one can do the windowed envelopes without wrinking them badly. I've tried a bunch of...
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