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We have a customer who publishes comic books and has shown us a 12pt C2S stock that has a hologram on one side (laminated or foiled) and is coated on the other. We know that the stock can run through a BizHub, We would love to get into this, even for short runs. The retail sources for similar...

Cheaper paper is going up an average about 3% bimonthly around here. That would take it up about 20% in a year. Welcome to the 1970s!

Pembroke... North Carolina, Massachusetts, or Wales?

Heavy digital stocks... Although the cut-to-run stocks are eminently convenient, they do not always give the greatest benefit for every printshop. (Especially when they are hard to find.) Give some thought to whether you can substitute a "standard printing sheet" and cut your digital sheets...

SRA3 has a 2mm plus or minus tolerance on length. So your sheets are within spec.:oops: It's abominable, yet reasonable in a weirdly utopian way, that papermakers, printers, and binderies are expected to use the same tolerances under ISO. Because papermakers have the greatest trouble in holding...

So true! And even if a politician wins, s/he doesn't need you when the election is over. Don't get deposits, though. Get full payment in advance. (Or, at the very least, consider everything not paid in advance as being a loan to a known deadbeat.) Politicians have a distressing inclination...

A wise route to take on this is not to go heavy on capital goods at least when you're starting. I recommend that you broker whatever you can. A major reason: you'll have to hire people whose abilities and character you probably won't be able to assess as well as you'll need to. If you have not...

The most reasonable response to being a beneficiary (e.g., of nepotism) is gratitude for the opportunity. We prefer, though, to think that our good fortune is due to our own efforts or superior characteristics.

Contact a trade printer or trade binder in your area and ask what they would charge to cut a batch of parent sheets of your preferred stock to 12x18, grain long. Just as a gaugepoint for you: I work for a union trade shop and we would want about $40 to cut a carton of 650 sheets of 65# (176gsm)...

"Impressions per Hour" is a phrase that means very little unless you add the adjective "Salable" in front of it. I see no machinery manufacturer who is candid enough to add that adjective.

Just remember... there's a big difference in prices between the East Coast and anything west of (A) the Mississippi River or (B) the Rockies. (Take your pick.)

Another phrase used for "encapsulated" is "edge sealed".

We are looking for a bookbinder who does, among other PUR binding, casebound PUR perfect binding. (Need endpapers, no headbands, but nice.) Failing that, we'd consider getting into it ourselves. We are a trade print shop and have a customer "who has a customer" who needs about 500 casebound...

I agree. The best graphic designer I ever knew was a tool and machine designer. He kept everything sparse and understood the concepts of not forcing margins and keeping it simple. I personally would be hesitant about hiring anyone as a graphic designer who had not had worked in mechanical...

"Nine out of 10 doctors smoke Camels." Remember that one? Until the 50's there was no scientific consensus about smoking, yet there was ample evidence dating back to Jean Nicot's death from a very rare disease. Had you asked anyone's great-grandmother in the 1950's or even a hundred years...

Even "back in the old days", the wise proprietor would inform the customer that the color will NOT perfectly match the PMS book. And the wise customer understood. Today we have many new-to-the trade proprietors and many new-to-the-trade retail customers. And they expect precision from a system...

Fan fiction... So long as the wording and drawings are truly original, there is no copyright problem in the U.S. But there is quite possibly a trademark problem. Basic idea would be the answer to the question, "Would a person be lead to believe that this is a ______ comic published by the...

Look at the registration plate on the car. (I'm an ex-Detroiter.)

Definitely a job for a handfed platen press or a Kluge. You can pick them up cheap, the dies are inexpensive, and 1,000 sheets thru, even 19x13, would be less than an hour, once you have it all set up. Perfect beginner's press in a printshop, even in this day and age. It will teach you who has...