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Hi all, As a quick background, we do a lot of very high quality (not quite photographic but close) on demand prints. We also mail almost everything we print. We have had the Kodak NexPress for the last 5 years. We also have a Ricoh 9100 as our second press. The Kodak is our primary and gets...

Hi all, We are a digital print shop and we print a lot of packages all over the country. We have an ecommerce site with a custom shopping cart and we have our own internal system to manage the workflow. One of the issues we have is accuracy of shipments. Our shipping process is currently...

Hi all, We have a part home grown/part out of the box web to print system that works pretty well for our needs. It also has a home built back-end/workflow system where we track/update orders. The one thing completely missing is a scheduling system. I am looking to see if there is any...

Hi all, I would appreciate some input regarding our variable data conundrum - We do a bunch of small jobs that vary in quantities from 50-1000. We print and mail all of them They could be various sizes but we typically do 5.5 x 11 and 5.5 x 8.5 postcards. Right now, we have our list...

Hi all, We have a web 2 print solution (off the shelf initially but then customized) that works very well for our needs. It has a designer that is HTML form based. It also has a basic HTML 5 designer. Unfortunately, the designer is a bit outdated and we are looking to upgrade. We would like...

Hi all, We have two digital presses - Canon 7000VP and Canon 7010VP. The 7010 is only a year old. For the most part, they work ok for what we print....postcards, brochures etc. Decent quality, sometimes great quality and we have no complaints. However, we recently got a few big clients...

We looked at the Impressia today. We are considering buying one. We will be primarily running #10 white/#10 white windows, some A9 envelopes and some 10 x 13s. Our run size will be anywhere from 500 - 12,000 or so and about 50% of our jobs will be variable data. We left a little...

Hi All, We have had a Canon 7000VP nearing the end of lease and for the most part it served us well. We print on predominantly heavy stock (12 pt gloss cover or higher) and on a large sheet size 12 x 18 or 13 x 19. Almost all our work is full color and we average around 125,000 to 150,000...

Hi all, Here is the issue we are facing. We have clients who take their own pictures and we incorporate them into designs for printing. Sometimes, the pictures are taken without proper lighting (typically in a home) and they look dull and do not pop. Is there a way to optimize these...

Hello, We are an all digital print shop. We primarily print direct mail pieces and outsource any envelope printing we get. However, we are looking to bring that in house. Our envelope orders range from 200 to 10,000. Most of the envelopes we print on are 2 color or 4 color. The most common...

We have been toying with the idea of producing snap pack mailers. I understand we might have to do the finishing (perforating and gluing) offline. The problem is I am not sure if this is something that requires specialized equipment or what is involved. The content will be variable data..so...

We are a digital print and mail shop. We started as a mail shop 25 years ago, added digital printing a few years ago. Overall, we do well in the market segment we cater to. However, we see that we either lose a lot of high volume jobs to other printers or we outsource them and not make much...

Hi, We are looking to get a used Morgana Digifold or something similar that will handle volume from digital productions presses. We will be scoring/folding anything from 80# gloss text brochures or 14PT invitations. Most of the stock will be coated stock. Some of it will be UV coated too...

Hi all, We already have a web site (custom built) where clients can upload their own files or select one of our templates and provide information for all the fields on those templates. However, they do not see a proof online either when they upload files or select a template online and...

Hey all, Thanks to this forum, after much research, we bought a T-49 for some of our large run jobs a few months ago. What I am looking for now, is a solution for our short run brochure jobs that need to be scored and folded. We get a few jobs a week that need to be scored and folded...

Hi, I am looking for a system that will let us track our jobs through the different departments. We are an on demand all digital print and mail shop. We not only print and mail but we also mail for other printers who do not have the capability. I am looking for a system to track all of our...

We are a digital print shop with mailing capabilities. I am trying to figure out what my options are for a workflow software for our business. Here is what we want the system to do - 1.) Create custom order forms with options specific to us. This would include digital print/mailing options...

Hi all, We have a Canon 7000VP (got it 8 months ago) and we really like the machine when it is running well. We know it has the capability to produce what we need. Before we leased the machine, we printed everything on a different printer's 7000VP for about 6 months and we really liked it...

Hi all, I am sorry if this is not the right place but I was curious on how everyone handled the issue of toner getting smeared when it goes through the sorting equipment in the post office. I know digital printing in general has this issue. However, is UV coating the only solution. Not only...

Hi all, We don't really do a ton of folding but we do a fair amount. Majority of our stuff is folding 12 x 9 - 80# Gloss Cover sheet into a 6 x 9. We fold about 25,000 to 30,000 of these a month (not one job but a number of jobs). We also do a fair amount of tri-fold jobs (8.5 x 11...