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As others have said, separate the contract issues out from the technical evaluation. We've recently started moving over to Xerox from KM and negotiated limits to the price increases into both Nuvera and Versant contracts. Very standard for Xerox, I doubt they would have any issues with you...

We've played with this kind of thing (not on a 1000i, different machines) and I came to a few conclusions. (1) if you want envelope overprinting, buy a dedicated machine designed for it, they are not expensive and envelope overprinting it not a good fit for an expensive colour digital press (2)...

Hmmm... at the risk of sounding bitter and twisted, the reason that other printers aren't talking about their new KMs is that we bought KM 8000s and after that experience, we're all now customers of other vendors. To be fair, we buy our presses to run continuously on a single shift (or 1.5...

This is really disappointing. We're in the UK as well and I was going to seriously look at a 9110 or 7110 later this year (the larger sheet size would be really useful to us), but if they can't even get jobs square on a sheet, that's a complete non starter. I'll speak to Ricoh and see what they...

Yes, there are at least 3 manufacturers that I know of that do this. As Craig says Plockmatic / Morgana (same company now) offer one. This probably has the least number of commercial printer installs by a long way, although that may now change with the Morgana take over. Much more of an...

Is it only Fuji offering this then? Not a sniff of it that I've heard in the UK. They are probably afraid that it will eat into their iGen sales. I'm certainly going to take a good look at the Ricoh 7100 and 9100 before buying another Versant, as they do offer the larger sheet size and that...

yes, that's only available with a single release liner I think. If we need a release liner to stay on the tape (for example those stand up restaurant table things sent out flat), we just use the finger lift tape like this...

What Craig said. We use one of these: http://www.3mdirect.co.uk/scotch-atg-adhesive-transfer-tape-applicator-gun.html?gclid=COKl-fz92sYCFRQatAod4TgDSQ fine for a couple of hundred

If you are talking about spiral binding, i.e. plastic spirals and not wire binding, I would say this would be a really time consuming job. We do quite a bit of spirals and run an autopunch 360 and a plastikoil 3000 qs auto inserter. The autopunch can't take a stack with different size pages, so...

Towards the end of the life of the C8000 they started shipping an "E" version which had the upgrades and was rated at a 50% increase in duty cycle. No idea what the E stands for, "Enhanced" maybe. Here's a link to the UK press release: bizhub PRESS C8000e – an award winning digital press gets...

The "E" field upgrade is worth having, so negotiate hard to get that as part of the deal. It takes roughly 2 (engineer) days, so they won't want to do it, but I'd persist. It does includes some changes that MAY have already been field upgraded on the C8000, but only if the service company were...

There are no cheap machines that will give you the same level of quality. If we look at the Xerox range for instance, the entry level J75 is a fine machine, but we've rejected that as not being capable of producing commercially acceptable photographic work (we mainly print books and magazines)...

Can't help you directly, but we have an Morgana autocreaser and a Morgana folder. Both have been used every day in a busy factory for years now with only minor repairs and servicing required. In fact the only repairs ever necessary on the autocreaser have been the little joystick controller...

In my experience there is a lot of ignorance in the industry about static, very few real experts and most manufacturers of digital presses and most manufacturers of digital finishing equipment are lacking in even basic knowledge. Here's what I've learnt through trial and error, maybe it will...

The clamps don't work the same way as a standard guillotine (on our trimmer we have to change clamp plates for certain book sizes) and neither do the knives, although you can get a similar result if you are careful on a guillotine. On a standard guillotine the clamp has to hold the book over the...

3 knife trimmer

If I understand it right, a D136 is a facelifted version of the 4127. We have a 4127 that we've been running for a few years and also a Nuvera 144 EA that we've had installed for a few months. First of all, the lower end machine is really a fantastic bit of kit, it has hardly ever let us down...

Horizon make good machines, though we do have some static related problems with digital work. You should also look at the new Plockmatic machine, that looks impressive (I don't have one, I've just seen it at demos). Almost certainly will be sold as a Morgana machine in the US (Plockmatic bought...

Well it's in the press release, so I assume so. The 7100 is "just" 70 and 80 ppm depending on version chosen and that's the one that is priced in the same general area as the versant 2100 and the konica-minolta 1100. Slow compared with those it may be, but it has a couple of interesting tricks...

Having had a good look at the Versant 2100 and the KM 1100 (the Canon is at least 1-2 generations older and not a serious contender in this group), they both have very good image quality. The launch party for the C9100 isn't for a few weeks, so I don't have any hands on on the new Ricoh. IMO the...