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I just shipped 2 emm trays from the midwest to Washington State. It didn't weight enough to justify fedex freight (who we use for freight) but it was still annoying to have to find/make boxes for 24" long trays. It looks like Fedex charged me around $50 each to ship them, and the PMOD program to...

How do you guys ship trays of mail to remote post offices? If I want to get the DDU discount on mail after I check it in at my local BMEU I have to ship it along with a copy of my 8125 form to that particular post office. How do you guys package and ship EMM trays? Put it in a bigger box? Band...

I'm kind of hoping for production UV Inkjet that can print on regular coated stocks. Fewer moving parts to go bad, but still short run, variable data and digital finishing options.

I've never seen someone piss them off with such precision. If you bring that work ethic to this new project, you'll be just fine. =)

You're asking in the wrong place. Signs101.com is the better place for this question. That said, you're probably looking at a summa or esko router table. Maybe even a zund. I personally prefer Mimaki products over Roland, but that might just be pure preference. What kind of volume are you...

1) Any machine will look bad if it has not been calibrated correctly 2) My comments were about paper handling and paper paths.

What Canon machines did you test?

"Color Quality" is one thing, but color consistency is very different. Additionally, color is only half the equation. Paper is the other half. Seems like KM can't figure out how to get a piece of paper to pass consistently through their machines. Different gsm ratings for simplex and duplex...

Ran into the same issue with a canon imagepress a few years back. With the way paper runs through these machines, everything has to be synchronized so you don't get jams. If you put in a different size sheet of paper it messes with the synchronization. That .75" tab is enough to throw things...

These machines don't actually "crease" paper, they do this 3 blade micro slit thing. That may not look real good on toner. Make sure you check that out as part of your demo. If they had an option to allow for true creases with creasing matrix adhered to the bottom cylinder I would buy one of...

600,000 of what? Letter size black and white on 70lb offset text? 13x19 2-sided 300gsm heavy coverage? Is your work color sensitive? Is duplexing important? The imagepress 10000 is probably still too new for it to have any track record. That said, I've seen under the hood of one and it's...

Create 2 programs. 1 that cuts out the 10x7 shape, another that creases it. That's how we do it with our 646. Works fine. The reason they don't make basic templates is because there are so many ways to handle bleeds and gutters. Some use .125 bleeds, others in mm. We use .1 bleed and .2 gutter...

If you're doing it right, you build a template once in fiery (virtual printer, hot folder, etc.) and you build a duplo template once, and then you keep reusing those two things all the time. It's not that tedious once you're accustomed to it. I've made lots of templates for my machine. I have...

I have a Duplo 646 and have NONE of the problems you're describing. I looked at a 616 and decided it was to Mickey Mouse for a work environment. We print everything on 13x19.2 and it couldn't handle 24 up business cards with bleeds in 1 pass. That killed the deal right then and there. Can you...

Step 1: You impose the job in fiery and add all the marks and a bar code and print it out. Step 2: Build your Duplo program based on what printed out. Step 3: Save it to the Duplo in the same program spot as the bar code you picked in the fiery. Step 4: Set up the Duplo to read bar codes from...

I'd say we get around 6 13x19's per minute when doing 8 up postcards or 24 up business cards. I wouldn't do 10k postcards but regularly do 2500. I can just set it and walk away and do something else while it processes. That's what makes it so great, I'm not tied to it like I am the guillotine...

I have a Duplo 646 and LOVE IT. It's super accurate and customizable and has been flawless for us. We wiped out over half our guillotine work. Postcards, bus cards, creased notecards, bookmarks.... all moved to the Duplo. Can't go wrong!

Print on flat paper and have them converted into window envelopes.

We tried running non RO water in our misters and after about 2 weeks the press techs revolted. The white crap collecting inside of everything was wreaking havoc. Bite the bullet. Do it once and do it right.

I knew about the 8000 and 10000 machines. We checked them out at Graph Expo and even looked under the hood of them too. The reason they are faster is because they use a toner with a lower melting point, not because of any major changes/improvements in the machine. We regularly print small...