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My office just completed a three day trial of the ColorCube. As someone who installed and sold a lot of Phaser 850/860s a few years back, this product was very familiar. We found on all the house stocks we tested, it performed as expected if not better. We did find a problem with it very easily...

BCC works well, but for our 25M a year mailing operation, it runs us about $3 grand a year. I've talked with our Rena dealer (we just bought three tabbing machines) and I think he had said it would be around $25K for a printer. We run a lot of coated stock and are running two VideoJet heads...

It's possible that chemistry might work with other thermal plates, but it seems that the plate has a stronger emulsion than some others, so that developer might be too aggressive and affect the image area on other brand plates. If I was a betting man, I'd try Agfa's Energy Elite in that...

One thing I've seen on Agfa's Amigo plates, is a tendency for the plate coating to polymerize when exposed to the air over a long time. Plates tucked away in a light safe drawer, but hanging off the side of the pile, will show a discoloration. Look at the edges of your plates and see if there is...

I've done the same thing by putting those marks into the grip of the plate so we can all read them, but they never see any ink as they're in the plate lockup. Without seeing how you're making your Preps templates, it's hard to say specifically where you need to apply it, but you can use a...

I wouldn't rule out a dramatic change though. Look at how much more you can do with transparency from CS2 to CS3. It would be nice if they unified some of their tools between Ill, PS and InD. Or at least the option for such. It's irritating to jump from one program to another using say...

I'm guessing either the loader or the suction cups move, and the other is static and doesn't. I'd look at what things are moving in there, whether it's a suction cup bar or the plate cassette, and look for a sensor or something that detects the plate load height. My one guess is that something...

I don't know what mechanism moves the plates on an L50, but it sounds like that's the place to start. Are slipsheets supposed to be removed manually on the L50? If not, have you tried it with the slipsheets in place? If so, could it be that it thinks the second plate is a slipsheet? If you...

----------UPDATE-------------------------- Alright so Monday I used the Alternate user login and was able to connect all three components of the RIP: APOGEE PDF RIP, RASTER Preview Pilot, and RIP PILOT...It does seem slower with the alternate account and the problem I am having now is getting...

I work in a place with several Ptek DI presses. At the time we bought them, it made sense, as making that number of plates would have constituted a violet platesetter, and we still would have needed to buy the presses. We've had very good luck with the QMDIs, especially with that generation of...

Ax and Xerox Ax and Xerox I can only speak as a commercial Agfa ApogeeX user. In Ax, you can output to an imposed PDF. You can also apply Pitstop preflight profiles and actions to said PDF, as well as normalize the incoming PDF so you have a more reliable output. That imposed PDF could be...

Re: Azura plates run length issues Did they check bearer pressure? You'd be surprised at how many technicians I've seen who don't think to even check it, just because they don't want to be responsible for setting it. From what I read into it, the first two plates are experiencing it, so if we...

Re: Prinergy the ONLY automated workflow??? Heck, if I wanted to, I could run ApogeeX from my house. or better yet, not at all. I could just have a designer drop a PDF in and kick a plate out with no user intervention. Doesn't mean that plate(s) would come out right though... I'd kick the rep...

Re: Which envelope feeder for a Quickmaster-46? I kind of vote with Offset Guy. Sure a Jet's way more expensive, but depending on the volume and what you're printing, it might be worth it. Plus, you could be freeing up your QM for other work. I don't begrudge someone trying to get by on the...

Re: UV printing vs. conventional printing From what I've seen on our UV web, the main disadvantage to UV is that you have a very small window for emulsion on press compared to conventional inks. It makes life a bit more difficult for the press operator. Let's face it, the most important...

Re: Pre Press vs. Press salaries I think it can really go either way. I've trained a lot of people and fixed a lot of problems in a lot pre-press departments. Based on that, I suspect the trend in most shops of substantial size is that pre-press is paid less than pressmen. Of course, if they...