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Find a printer that can do the layout for you as part of the printing. Most print shops will have someone who can take what you have and re-lay it out in InDesign. You would want to give them the original photos, the word document, and the PDF. Have them replace the original photos and...

If a Delta Airlines didn't manage their utilization rate as closely as they do how long do you think they would be in business? Minutes on the ground cost them thousands of dollars, but should they not consider that a cost?

As Mike stated the MX4 is more of a DL ICC profile. A big issue I had with MX4/GMG when it came to actually using there color management in production it doesn't allow for a CMYK+RGB workflow which we rely on heavily. For a proofing system; I think it is pretty tried and true. I just rather...

What's your BHR on your main press and how did you calculate that?

I don't disagree that an offset press is probably more profitable on average but I also think there are digital presses who would run this work. You have to look at the economics of each operation. HP10000 is a different digital printer than a Xerox 1000. I never mentioned your job...

How can you say cost is cost but then disregard a sunk cost like a printer lease payment?

Signs101 has a lot of information on this. I would say this has a lot to do with what you are selling. Vehicle wraps, a lot of overlam product, or indoor posters and signs?

No I said it the way I wanted to say it. If you are not at 80%+ utilization of your printers each month then yes I would run the job in-house at 0% and contribute more to the bottom line. My 0% in-house margin is an all inclusive rate; if you just slap 30% to your outsource quote how much of...

If you are looking for an outsource vendor obviously you could reach out to Bret if they are interested in that type of work but also you could try Firehouse http://onyx.fire-house.net/

Now we are getting into the weeds a bit but I could bet that a 0% margin in-house job contributes more to your bottom line than an outsource job with a straight 30% markup.

Wait, 72 pages or signatures?

Duratrans is historically printed on a Durst Lambda printer or similar think contone photo processing. We just retired three of our Lambdas and have replaced the work with an HP Latex. Ultraflexx, Tekra, CMA all have a similar milky backlit PET film for inkjet.

If you don't have the 21 days you need to outsource it. $6000 in clicks is about 100x cheaper than starting an offset operation.

No, that isn't enough revenue to support a 4-color press. You would need at least 5x that number IMO. Platesetter, RIP software, Press, Pressman, (does your current bindery equipment accommodate a 29" press sheet), Learning Curve, etc. I would think anything less than a 29" press wouldn't be...

I find it BS that they decided to make their color management proprietary. I don't live in the flexo packaging world but it is my understanding at one time they had the corner on multi-spot color profiling which made it very popular in packaging. I believe CGS has caught up.

Concur with the above, this sounds like a poorly registered sheet. Little tick marks will appear on the edges when the registration is too far off.

I found it to be less important on color digital devices due to the large amounts of coated stock that would be ran through however on the BW devices if you are running a few million impressions a month of 20# uncoated the paper path can look like the machine needs to go to narcotics anonymous.

I live in a world where net 75 is the norm.

It is GMG's proprietary version of an ICC profile.

Typically you will want to wipe down the paper path with a lint free cloth and whatever Ricoh suggests - alcohol, water, film cleaner. I don't know what the path is made of so I can't say what you should use. Then using a swab I would go in and clean all the sensors in the paper path once again...