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Good luck, chrisio and tngcas. All great inventions are the result of seeing a problem, and recognizing the possibilities of a certain approach to solving that problem, whether that approach is reasonable, theoretical, political, practical, economic, (or anything else), or not. "Don't carry a...

Have you had any success in finding a good Print MIS with the requirements you listed a couple years ago on PrintPlanet? We are a trade printer in the southwestern United States, in the desert, said to be the wettest desert in the world. We use EFI Vision. David Cowell, estimator for Black Dog...

Hey, folks! Looks like this thread is nearly 3 years dead. Does that mean everybody is happy, or dead, or disgusted? I am disgusted with Printsmith Vision. It requires much more mental training than I have time for, and has reports that are a joke. The older Printsmiths could be worked with...

Let's assume that the problem is the heat. The ink need not be a special ink to vaporize at those temperatures, but it could be one. Four possible solutions: If you have an addressing machine for mailing and the size of the imprint is small enough, you might be able to inkjet the information...

The simplest way to express this to the customer who is willing to accept that color can vary throughout a run and is often unmatchable from one process to another: Come up with a "show and tell". I used to use boxes (for identical hair coloring) purchased at 2 different stores to show the...

We are looking for a hand foil stamper machine. The kind that you could find in the back of a bookstore. Years ago I had a stamper, but it got “lost” in a move from one house to another. We have occasional requests for very short runs of foiling and specialty runs like foil stamping a logo on...

Our thriving trade print shop is losing a letterpressman who is quite talented at foiling and embossing on our Kluges. (Only trade shop between Mexico and Phoenix, Arizona. GCC union. More than 10 employees.) He’s getting old and he just doesn’t want to drop dead at the feed table...

We bought a used (and operating) index tab cutter this week. Our machine maven is cleaning it, etc., and he's asked me if there is any documentation for it. I know the previous owner and his peccadillos... there is surely no documentation. The only real tracking information is a plastic...

It's OK to give away over-runs if you're willing always to give them away. (I don't think it's terribly intelligent, though.) I would rather be up front and say "We had an over-run of 500 pieces. Would you like to purchase the whole thing at the 1,000 price? And I'll give you a one-time 10%...

We have purchased a used Digibook 300 XL Pro PUR perfect binder and the nearest dealer is unable to set up any training for several weeks. We would like to get this machine running as soon as we can. Does anybody know this machine? We are in a Southwestern US city that is somewhat off the beaten...

I've read through this thread and I suspect that until you could find a really good production person, you might want to approach this as a printing broker, using either a local trade print shop or possibly one of the national trade shops like 4over. Your solid capital investments would be...

We've had trouble with paper supply like everyone else, but a buddy of mine found a source for tons and tons (well, skids and skids) of Asian gloss, dull, and uncoated paper. We've been using them as a buffer for when our regular supplier is short.

Very few people understand the price of "free". And all of the ramifications. It's due to ignorance, stupidity, or cupidity... or a combination of all three traits.

We have a customer who needs runs of about 600 laminated-wrap PUR hardbound edition comic books half a dozen times a year. Trim size: 6.62" x 10.25" upright, 48 or 64 pages of 70# gloss book (100gsm). The books sell for a high price, so packaging and handling have to be impeccable. No mashed...

Heathy is referring to his post of 19 July: https://printplanet.com/threads/veloblade-digital-die-cutter-for-sale.291462/

Is there a laminating person who can clear this up for me? I have been told by several binders and laminating shops that hot lamination over aqueous coating is not going to give a dependably good lamination job. Rather, they say it is better to not use aqueous coating at all. We prefer to use...

Yup. This is a phenomenon that has gone on for millennia. Eventually, if you don't change prices you will be making nothing... figure 3% a year on average is what your expenses increase. If you're cheap now, figure you'll be firmly in the hole within 10 years if you don't change prices or do...

I tried Trello a few years ago and it had several problems that made me drop it after a few months. As I recall: It's VERY hard to extract data from it. Likewise with importing into it. (jSON is not for anyone but programmers.) I have an older OSX machine running Firefox as a browser, and the...

What do you mean by "too much corona"? Do you mean that there was too much of a static charge?

Do you know of any special adjustments that might need to be made to run the holographed stock? We have run some samples and we got a very light "dusting" of unfused toner on the top of stock after imaging. We've been able to take the dust off by rubbing with a piece of microfibre. Overall...