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You can accomplish this with a spreadsheet and use a public domain "font" like Free 3 of 9. A macro can make it a very simple procedure. BTW, barcodes usually need delimiters. For 3 of 9 use an asterisk at front and end of line. You can add asterisks to spreadsheet material with this cell...

Sorry for the late reply. I have no set approach. If they hesitate because they don't understand a concept being stated in printers' terms I begin to wonder, though. If they say they can do anything, I would doubt it, simply because there is always something new lurking behind the door. Just...

Craig has an interesting point that you have to bear in mind. The market and expectations change. When I started out 50 years ago, there was a true advantage in the quality of "great" letterpress jobs versus offset. The ink laid down thicker, there was a "heft" to the impression, and the...

Depending on where you are, there may be used printing equipment dealers nearby. (As I have experienced it, almost any urban area with more than 250,000 people has someone who is an equipment horsetrader.) Don't be surprised at how little you will receive as payment. Stuff like this will often...

Some people just don't need extra bells and whistles. When a software company sets up new interfaces, adds new bugs (unavoidable), and adds confusing terminology, it becomes learning-curve time... and many of us would rather do the simple things we have done dependably in the past rather than...

These are new Fuji LH-PJ plates, size 616 x 726 x 0.3. Expiration date: January 2021. $400 per package of 30 plates each. (Pretty deep discount.) Plus shipping (≈ 35# per package from 85713 Arizona). Good plates, our problem with them is that someone ordered them without thinking what size...

I am looking for manuals, parts lists, diagrams, (anything!) for Electro Sprayer Systems' E-500 unit that is found on circa-year-2000 Komori presses. Electro Sprayer Systems was sold 15 years ago to Harris & Bruno, who sold it to another company that went out of business. If you can help me...

The greatest obstacles to progress are fear and laziness.

A good baker knows his oven.

I've been thinking about the reply I gave yesterday and there is one area that I had forgotten to address: Is he being a "hunter or a farmer"? (To use kansasquaker's phrase.) Or is he just trying to get whatever he can? I'd say you'd be best to consider this: If he's expected to be a hunter...

I would say that as long as he keeps "stirring up" work out of clients he should get commission on those clients. (Residuals are different to this.) Out of YOUR current clients, I'd say settle on half commission. That's similar to stealing work from a fellow salesperson inside a friendly shop...

We had to disassemble part of our unit #1 of a Stahl T-36 buckle plate folding maschine. We are looking for drawings of any kind for the clutch assembly for the handwheel. The assembly looks somewhat different from what we'd expect and we don't want to mess it up when we put things back...

One of the shops I associate with does operate on percentage of profit and, because they are meticulously honest, it works very well for them and their salespeople. However, the percentage of revenue is more transparent for most shops. The shop loses more on some jobs, but it incents the...

Make sure your envelopes are feedable! You either have to hand feed them (ugh!) or have enough size of flap to feed from the "pocket". You can also fold #9 or #10 in half for pocket feeding on many machines. Our Müller-Martini requires that we pre-fold the remit envelope before putting in the...

We do a fair amount of numbering work on our Heidelberg windmill. We'd like to do more, but our sources for reliable numbering machines seem to have dried up during the Anti-mechanical Revolution. We have used some of the machines advertised as "new" on ebay and other places, and they don't...

Here's your answer: your problem is twofold. The thinner the paper, the lighter the score you must make. (Not "less wide", but less impression.) Remember that generally you are breaking the paper fibers somewhat when you score (or crease), even if it looks as if you are simply compressing them...

This is a difficult area. As the other folks have said, it seems that the common practice is to give full count on "house stock" envelopes, e.g., 24# commercial #10 regulars. The stickier area is the special order envelope. It seems that most shops in our area set up on house stock and then...

I don't like it. Far too distracting. I'm "A.D.whatever" or "O.C.whatever" to start with and this is just plain cruel to my poor brain.

Very nice PR piece for Xerox. Kind of informative even.

?? Why on earth? Looks awwful. And inches? Simply because Thomas Jefferson, who had the power to decide as President, was far more radical than practical and refused to support the metric system "because it did not have decimal notation for time". True. Pathetic, but true.