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Color is quality. The ability to faithfully reproduce the correct color is a sign of the quality of the machine. Embedded rips are flat out different than external rips. Their quality is absolutely different.

Sorry, going to have to disagree with you on this one. I had 2 of the EXACT same presses, just one with embedded rip and one with external fiery rip. Send the exact same file to both machines and get completely different color. Just for fun I swapped the external fiery for the embedded and...

We're about 4 years deep into our Duplo 646 and it's a workhorse! I wouldn't hesitate to buy one again. No replacing slitters or anything, no maintenance schedules... just clean out the paper dust from time to time and it keeps going. We NEVER have ragged cuts or slits either. Always clean and...

Inkjet isn't new technology. Océ has been making them for transactional printing (b/w on uncoated stock - transaction statements) for many years. You can't just say "the machine is expensive therefore we can't afford it." You have to look at the cost of the image as well. At 1.5 million b/w...

If I were doing 1.5 million b/w images a month on uncoated paper I wouldn't be looking at anything except inkjet. Océ (Canon) makes some incredible machines. Last I looked, they're way less expensive to run than toner boxes and go way longer between service calls.

How about a few pictures of how you feed remit envelopes through your envelope feeder?

The Chicago Skyway toll road charges 2 axle vehicles $2.25 per axle. 5 axle vehicles are $5.04 per axle. How is this any different than charging the biggest consumers of the internet more money for the bandwidth they use? Netflix consumes around 35% of the internet traffic in North America. Why...

I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains? No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains. He won’t let you stumble, your Guardian God won’t fall asleep. Not on your life! Israel’s Guardian will never doze or sleep. God’s your Guardian, right...

The system has been in existence for years, only now are they giving consumers a portal into it. Opportunities for hacking have existed for years, and we haven't heard anything yet.... yet.

Be careful exporting text from photoshop. If they used any faux effects the text will rasterize on export.

Maybe we've all got it wrong. http://www.piworld.com/article/matlet-group-to-relocate-work-as-part-central-florida-press-plant-closure-145-impacted/

From their website: Central Florida Press offers heatset web and sheetfed offset printing as well as full prepress and bindery services including saddle stitching, loop stitching, in-line punching, folding with in-line perforating and scoring. CFP specializes in offering custom data solutions...

Love our duplo 646! It's great on creasing which makes hand folding jobs much easier. Only limitation we've really found is on 100lb gloss text and 70lb offset text... it's just too thin to really get a good crease on it. Beyond that, it's an amazing machine! Thanks everyone for the great advice!

Yes, digitally printed. I like the idea of pre-perfing the stock. I could add the perfing wheel to one of my moll folder gluers and pre-perf my own stock and have it sitting here ready to go. After printing I could run it through a folder w/o the right angle attachment and call it good. I get...

Thanks for the follow up questions and input! Frequency: Maybe 2500 pieces weekly (Which is why I'm okay with used equipment.) Mostly coated stock, but I'm sure I'll run some 70lb offset text through it from time to time. We currently run moll folder gluers and also kluge letter presses so the...

I've got a customer asking me for a job that would require a paper folder and I could use some recommendations on machine choices. I've wanted to get a folder for a while, so this is a convenient excuse to buy one. The job is an 8.5 x 14 landscape with a 3" perf section on the right, then...

It's all relative. He could have been chanting for a firing squad.

It's not the ink drying in the lines you need to worry about, it's ink drying on/in the print head that you need to worry about. We leave our Mimaki machine on all the time, and it periodically runs a cleaning cycle on the head, to keep things fresh. 3+ years later and the thing still runs like...

I really like my Kompac ez-koat Coater. It's SUPER fast to add coating, run a job and clean it up and be done for the day. Clean up takes a minute or two, and that's it. We use it for as few as 5 sheets of 13x19 and it works great. When I have longer runs, I pull my envelope feeder and set it up...

Sometimes I wonder if this industry is the victim of change (like butter churners and horse and buggy manufacturers) or if it's the victim of perhaps an "automation at all costs" mentality that aims to strip all human interaction out of as much of the process as possible. The idea of "extreme...