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We have an old hot foil stamper that we used for photos but have stopped using it. The lead type rounds off after a while and we had trouble finding new lead type. Also, old fashioned lead typesetting loses its glamour after a few hundred jobs. The Impress is digital and sets up fast. It has a...

We have an Impress Foil Xpress machine that does exactly what you are looking for. It sells into the book cover market. The only issue is what you consider "inexpensive" I think we paid around $7000 for ours. We have used it to foil decorate photos, leather tags and a number of other things. I...

Hi Vinchu, I think JWheeler's comments are spot on as well. Product assortment and marketing those items are equally important. Based on some of the things you are already doing it sounds like you are willing to get into retail consumer category products as well as the customary commercial...

SK - I have no experience of those machines but they look interesting. We do run rotary and flatbed die cutters. The entry model that you have linked to looks to be suitable for prototyping or perhaps low volume, high end stationery. It looks like it can produce 30-45 sheets per hour which would...

Looks good. If you are doing volume, get their circle punch- much faster than a circle cutter.

We have the manual feed version of the unit and like it a lot. We use it to die cut cardstock exclusively. We do our creasing on a DC645 so I can speak to the die cutter's creasing capability. For low volume die cutting we also use a flat bed steel rule cutter - this is the entry level it seems.

Tom Crouser has a lot of good information on valuations and selling a printing business on his site:

Chris, On a small to mid-size printer I don't think there is a machine that prints full-bleed directly. If you are doing folded cards, you are going to need a finisher anyway so look at a creaser/cutter. You may as well get something like a Duplo DC-646 to cut and crease your cards out of a...

I expect gregbatch's comment about sizing is a good insight. We provide fullfillment for a UK customer who needs fast turnaround on a specialty product. They had commented that US prices were higher than Europe. Once they resized the product to make better use of our production capabilities that...

Cliff, I work in a photo lab / digital press store. We use a Versant, A Fuji Frontier Photo Printer and an Epson Stylus Pro wide format. The Epson printers are a good choice for photo and as others have said the Xerox is not a photo printer. You should probably go with something like this:

Glad to help PF. School sports photographers print a lot of photo buttons, if you looking for markets. Good luck.

We have been very happy with our Tecre unit. After many years of use I sent the unit in for rebuild at a low cost.

Flatbed solvent UV printers Flatbed latex printers.

The article suggests the decline of employment in those categories are because demand for the end product is declining and productivity has gone up so there is less need for labor. What I would like to know is the decline in production declining to a point where the trades will continue to...

From the Washington Post: ​​​​​​Stop the presses. As of this month, “printer” and “screen printer” are no longer official jobs — at least as far as the Labor Department’s flagship release is concerned. The same goes for “printing support” jobs such as platemaking and prepress work. Each year...

There is often a recovery partition on the device hard drive. I can't speak to the 550 status, but you might reload the software from that recovery partition if it exists.

We had a 7900 and I agree with Puch. A fiussy machine when in regular service, but 3 years of non-use probably killed the head. You can spend a lot of time messing with it but I doubt you can get it going again. Here is a guy who spent months working on his:

Cliff, I really think you are on the right track with the Versant. We do some standard commercial (commodity) printing on our Versant, but the main reason we have it is for specialized, boutique specialty products, for which it is a good machine. The printer sales guy doesn't really understand...

" Without using the press in this regular fashion, it's prone to service issues and they don't want to deal with that." We have a Versant and I can assure you that statement is complete baloney. As others have said, it is a probably pay-per-click commercial issue. with a minimum service fee...

Andrew, Both of those software solutions will sell a book/card/print system without necessarily requiring you to get a full end-to-end solution. We do not use their website solutions, just the online order and kiosk solutions. You can get a order portal and local order manager as a solution...