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We do press checks daily on 40" 6 color presses. We used to do them on 26" and 2 color presses. I'm sure we still would, if we still had the equipment. We even have customers come to do an okay on a digital press. We put time in the bid. So as long as the check cashes . . . .

Assuming you're running 40" plates, that's almost $500 wasted throughout the course of this year. How much time has the company spent tracking and discussing the defects? I'll bet that adds up to way more than $500.

I built a spreadsheet to estimate mailing weight and thickness, but it works just as well for any quantity. I make no representations or warranties, but post it here for anybody who would like to use, modify or otherwise manipulate . I think it's fairly self explanatory. Basically you enter the...

We had a customer a while ago who swore it wasn't their responsibility to provide 2 color files when printing a 2 color job. Supposedly other printers were happy to accept cmyk and/or rgb images and process them. When a system seems idiotic, it often has more to do with the inputs and the...

We use the same (PageCount/4)*Caliper method, but we add 20% to that number. When we measure, we usually find that actual creep is greater than the theoretical value. I have guesses as to why, but they're just guesses. Has anybody else ever looked at this? We apply creep if the move is .04"...

We have a Nexpress, I say we make Indigo illegal :D

If I had what is effectively a monopoly, I'd quit breaking skids and cartons too.

I am not familiar with the Duplos first hand, but I will second Halmac's suggestion of a Horizon BQ270. We used to have a BQ440 and that was a great machine. I believe the 270 would be a great machine for the runs you're talking about. You could also look at an older model BQ240. Unfortunately I...

I can appreciate your perspective on the French version of socialized healthcare, thank you for sharing. Cancer sucks anywhere and I'm sorry for you. I've seen it devastate my family, particularly women with breast cancer. I'm glad that you have a situation that is workable for you and I wish...

It's really just a question of who you believe is ultimately responsible for the wellbeing of an individual - is it the individual himself or the society of which he is a part? I prefer the former answer, you're welcome to prefer the latter. I find the attendant moral obligations of the latter...

I'll pass on all that protection, thanks just the same tho. It costs WAY too much and I can provide better for myself.

The answers to your questions are Yes, Yes and Yes. Companies can make a lot of money, and save consumers vastly larger sums in aggregate, by shifting production to countries with fewer regulations. People like profits and cheap goods. But people also say they like a clean environment (whatever...

I apologize, I thought my answer was pretty clear. Trump hasn't done anything to increase those protections because American workers don't need additional protections. They already have some of the best on the planet. Your turn.

America already has some of the most strict and costly standards on the planet. That's why it's so difficult to manufacture anything here. Any further increase in costs can only hurt the American worker and make them less competitive vs global labor. My question still stands. Why are we willing...

That's 100% true. But since trade was the topic, I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to talk about the underlying issues. The particular little barbs going back and fourth now are destructive for some and beneficials for others. (I have no doubt those closest to power access the globe...

If the only thing keeping your business afloat is the margin gained by foreign governments' currency manipulation, anti-competitive practices and lack of any EHS standards, you probably aren't long for this world anyway. Also, for everybody here who gives a fig about the environment health or...

The nozzle checks look excellent in all cases (large solid continuous tones do as well). The printer is about 2.5 years old. We only run semi-gloss proofing paper on it and only use Epson inks. Pretty light usage, maybe 1000 sqft per month. The thought that the print head was going out crossed...

We're having a strange problem with an Epson 9900. The device has always been very stable. We use EFI FieryXF as a print server, but color manage with Kodak Color Flow. So the workflow is to send a color managed tiff from Prinegy to the Fiery. Color management is turned off on the Fiery and...

I'm not sure I can add a whole lot to this discussion, but we saw a HUGE performance decrease when going from Metrix 2016.x to 2017.3. We've made some adjustments and it's livable, but nobody here is happy. For a while there, we were considering going backwards. I was left with the impression...

This is sold, sorry can’t figure out how’s to delete post from my phone. We're selling our old Rampage system. It's a single server box running version 13. The included options are Postscript, Trapping, 1-bit Tiff, H, Shooter, Soft FPP, Software Screening, RampagePDF, ParallelProcRIP. The...