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It's painless to use (i.e. downloads / registration / updates), but I'm at a loss really to see how it's anything to do with cloud based computing. It seems just like a subscription to keep your licenses up to date instead of paying for your update all in one lump. There's also a whole truck...

First of all, I need to "declare an interest". You would have to prise my cold dead hand off of my magic trackpad before I would use a PC again day to day. I love my Mac and thunderbolt display, full stop. But personally, I'd be wary of running anything resource intensive through parallels...

I suggest you look at Studiorip, they should be able to work out a solution for you that's a lot more cost effective. We moved over to this a couple of years ago and have been very pleased with it. The guys in the UK are very helpful. We use a Agfa Azura plates, 200lpi hybrid screening (off...

We're generally happy with our K-Ms, but are having an intermittent and recurring problem with the c8000 model that our service provider is struggling to fix. There are some sensors located below the toner housings and these become faulty as toner falls on them. The problem this causes is a...

I'm probably not following you correctly, but why would this kill off digital press manufacturers more than litho press manufacturers? It seems to me that the only part of a litho press that would be reused would be the paper transport. In very approximate terms, everything else is junked, no...

As far as I know there are only 2 sheetfed toner machines used for commercial book printing. Oce 6160 (the others in this range (i.e. 6250) are the same engine, different speed restrictions) and Xerox Nuvera. Bear in mind that the Nuvera is a bit of a minefield for uninitiated as (i) you have...

I don't think there is any machine that costs less than about 100,000 euros that will do a 100% acceptable job for this kind of work. You can look at the cheaper Xerox machines like the 4112/4127 and they will do a job that is acceptable to many customers, for some paper types. I think that...

If you use it, you'll no doubt be aware of the manufacturing problems with the D&K Superstick nylon (lay flat) matt film over the past several months. I'm getting fed up with paying an extremely high price for a faulty product and then having to manage customer expectations for every darn...

@CSimpson We have the 5000 as well and we're doing a lot more booklets than that a month, a lot of them on gloss (digital and litho), so a good comparison. We don't have that same issue at all. We have the machine serviced and the guys have a very strict operator maintenance schedule. IMO...

FWIW I've never seen that problem on any of our 6501 or c8000 machines. Lots of other problems, but luckily not that one yet.

Don't have any experience of those. We have the Renz AP360 with coil and wire dies which is an excellent machine and chews through anything we throw at it.

Just to add a little to the total sum of knowledge about the c8000. We added one to our existing 6501s at the start of the year and have mostly been impressed. Paper handling, productivity, print quality all good and in line with expectations. We have had one major issue though, that dragged...

Both machines are at the same kind of productivity level and I would have thought that for any requirement <100K per month either would be overkill. We don't run any of our machines at that low volume, so can't comment there, but personally I wouldn't be throwing my money away on an over...

Showed these to another colleague. He joked that we can now match people's business cards to their handbag! Well it's funny, but we could actually do it... :) an update from a bit later on... pretty much everyone in the factory has had a look at these now and we've all had a smile at the...

I doubt whether moo have any kind of patent on this and it's really not difficult. Having looked into it, there are several companies that have been doing it for years. I was chatting about this with my production supervisor this morning and by coincidence a mate of his just bought cards from...

Nice idea, I wonder why they want/need 4 layers though? Pretty sure we could do this on our case manufacturing kit with a few tweaks. Pretty expensive to set up for if you don't already do hardback books though.

PremierBeswick & Eliott Baxter are both good & their reps should be able to give advice on suitable paper. Guillotines are difficult. A manual one will be fiddly and time consuming for business cards, especially as you will have to double cut them. A better solution for that might be to...

Yes, really. 2-3 years ago I advertised (for about 6 weeks, including on HERE) a 250 that was 18 months old with hicap feeder, spectro to calibrate it, professional finisher, etc. in perfect "as new" condition (always on Xerox maint) and had zero interest. Basically, it was our "toe in the...

If the 4 new drums and a fuser are completely unused and boxed, then I suspect that they will be worth more than the actual printer itself. If you offered £500 for the lot, the vendor would probably bite your hand off. The trick is going to be keeping it running with reasonably accurate...

For that kind of volume, you probably just need a hand operated matrix creaser, like this: Morgana Products Creasers DocuCrease 35 - 52 We have automated machinery costing many times more, but TBH a good quality hand operated creaser like this does just as good a job, just a lot slower.