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Sorry, should have said…Versant 80

Not come across this before but printed a load of 350gsm card today with a white background and noticed a grey hue on the white areas. When I looked closer it’s like black specks of toner all over the sheet. Is this likely to be bad developer or is there somewhere I can clean to clear this up...

I would say that the Konica is a beefier machine designed to do production level printing whereas the Primelinks are essentially glorified office machines. One thing to be mindful of is I believe the Konica will have different power requirements than the primelink. We needed a 32amp supply for...

In fairness, if it’s a pc component that’s gone (hard drive or memory for example), you can replace it but yes they are insanely expensive machines to replace. When we bought our KM, it was brand new direct from Konica and the fiery was DOA. Had to wait for quite a while for a replacement to...

I have to say I think your take is somewhat harsh. I have not said that I cannot afford to lease a new machine, I have said I don’t want to. I leased my Konica Minolta C3070 and managed the lease payments just fine but my preference is to not have lease payments if I can avoid them. I bought...

As I say, leasing is not something I want to do. I'm in the UK and a lease on a 280 is going to be somewhere around £500 per month just for the basic spec with a click rate of 4p a sheet. The click charge on our V80 was only 4p a sheet so there doesn't seem to be the same Click Charge savings to...

Great to hear you got the financing you needed. I will give it some thought but as I say, I'd rather not go that route if I can help it and in all honest I'm not convinced we'd be approved anyway haha. The last couple of years have been tough for us...some bad decisions at the start of 2022...

To be honest, I’ve not looked at our company credit score in a while but I just don’t want to commit to another monthly cost. If I can hang on with the v80 for a few months I might be in a position to fork out for a v180 without having to worry about a finance payment. Out of interest though...

I’ve always had the mindset that a production machine without a service contract is a big no and my gut still tells me I need to get a newer machine on a contract. I just don’t want the commitment of a lease/finance payment to go with it. I have actually asked our Xerox dealer for a price on a...

Indeed. I said to a friend of mine today I deeply regret selling my Konica (I regretted it as soon as it left our building to be fair).

Not massive volume. We mostly print sticker sheets and card stock and do about 20k clicks a month. However, we do get the odd week like this week where we have booklet jobs that are 500+ A4 booklets.

So.... our Xerox service provider has dropped us in it. Because Xerox have end of life'd the Versant 80 in the UK as of 31st December 2024, our service provider are now refusing to service our machine, despite us having 4 months left on our service contract. We are going to be seeking legal...

You’re assuming that the OP is correctly charging for their time and that the company they’re doing the job for is willing to pay the hourly rate x hours spent on setting up 50 designs per A4 sheet.

Would love to know if you find something. We do a lot of sticker sheets but stipulate that a sheet can only have one design which minimises this to an extent. You need to think about how much work and time doing a single sheet of 50 designs is going to take. It’s simply not worth the time for...

My printer has one printhead. This was when the head was usable. It’s beyond unusable now and I’m reluctant to buy another head and contemplating an Epson to replace it but struggling to find information on the Epsons printhead.

We went down the route of memjet for a roll label printer (ours is the VIPColor VP700 which is the same as the Afinia L801), so while not a specific example of the machine you’re looking at, the heads are pretty much the same tech. From my experience, I genuinely wouldn’t touch a memjet device...

I’ve got a Mimaki CJV150 that has a shot printhead (admittedly due to having not using it enough…lesson learnt). I’ve had a quote for having the printhead and cap top replaced and looking at roughly £2.5k as long as nothing else needs replacing. I’ve also had a look at some refurbished HP...

I can’t recommend a specific printer because I never went down the route of printing pvc cards in-house but I did look into it quite a bit and your best bet is to get a ‘retransfer’ printer and not a ‘direct to card’ printer. The retransfer printers print the design to a film and then apply...

Ps sorry to hear about your issue with the 3100. Are you able to get it up and running quickly? I kind of don’t mind having teething issues with a new to me press as long as it’s under service contract. I also feel like it’s made worse because the V80 is our only press so when that’s down for...

In fairness, we are nowhere near those figures in terms of volume, probably closer to 10k per month. We don’t generally print low profit/high volume like flyers (unless it’s for ourselves). We tend to do sticker sheets mainly but throw in booklets (usually 120gsm uncoated) and A3 posters (on...