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You don't necessarily need to buy imposition software, you can actually do it in InDesign. When you design a file save the InDesign file. Export the same file as a PDF and add crop marks, bleed etc as you export. Open a new InDesign doc the same size as your press sheet and place the PDF in...

The registration issue is due do thicker papers hitting in the nip of the fuser rollers. In Advanced user settings you can slow the speed down and that may help. Also in the PTR area there is a registration stop or gate (similar to a stop fingers on offset press). The sheet hits this to...

It is with great sorrow that I inform this forum that I learned over the weekend that Helmut "Hal" Heindel passed away back on December 4th. To my knowledge Hal's experience in the printing industry dates back to 1969 with Unitac a stationary printing shop in Rochester NY. By 1976 his company...

While we are running an Oki for color envelopes we still are running our Ryobi 2800 for black envelopes of 500 or more. We will run 1 or 2 spot colors for the right quantity on it as well. We use metal plates so there is about 15 minutes to get a plate ready to go on press. It's not ideal in...

I have a 4 page newsletter provided by a client who used Canva to do the design layout. The file looks normal on screen with a white background and no apparent background color data. I pre-flighted the file and assigned it a US Sheetfed Uncoated profile and there was a very noticeable off...

Anybody know what happened to www.printingresearch.org ? Their listserv also appears to be gone. Thanks, John

Following list of equipment for sale: Konica Minolta C654e digital press 60 color/65 black PPM, low meter - approx. 200K clicks Itek 3985 (Ryobi 3302) IR dryer, crestlines ABDick 3500 Kompacs, IR dryer, pull guides, 4 million impressions Ryobi 2800 w/swing away T-head Thompson envelope feeder...

What is the difference between a regular fuser and an envelope fuser? Is this unique to Konica or do other manufacturers have separate envelope fusers? (Xerox, Canon, Ricoh, Xante, Oki, etc etc) If I am running digi windows do I need this envelope fuser? What about regular #10s (no window)...

My question is do the sales reps only make commission on the sale/lease of a new machine or do they also make commission on the click charges of a service agreement? Seems like if I wasn't interested in upgrading to the newest machine the sale rep would want to keep the service alive so he/she...

Yes I have seen his videos, very impressed with his setup of KM's. I was actively looking to buy a KM or two after watching his channel but the Ricoh deal fell in my lap at a price I couldn't say no to.

Yes I just posted on another thread about anything #100 cover or above being either out of stock or very limited supply. I am pretty sure it going to be similar to limited supplies of lumber due to high demand and limited number of sawmills due to their capacity hampered more by people not...

I have seen the same thing with my paper vendors in the last few weeks very low stock on anything from #100 cover and up. Blazer #100 gloss, #100 & #130 gloss covers were our house sheets. I have ran Pro Digital before as well as Sterling and Pro Digital performed better on both our offset and...

Looks like envelopes on my c901 are a no go. The only way to load a #10 is in trays 3 or 4 with the flap open feeding from the bottom of the envelope. The paper guides won't go small enough any other way. But on the screen of the print engine under paper settings it has an envelope setting...

I have a new to me Ricoh C901 with the Fiery FS-100, LCIT, buffer pass and the SR5020 booklet maker. I have not tried envelopes yet but I am very happy with the machine so far. The speed and quality is exceptionally good and it may allow us to phase out our offsets if we can do envelopes on...

The grain of the paper should always run in the direction the paper travels through the press. On an offset press the paper is under significant pressure in the cylinders which can account for the paper stretching, the application of water and ink in the printing process adds moisture to the...

I use both the plates tastar mentioned and they both work well. I run very high quality 4 color process at 150 lpi @ 1440 dpi daily using the GenieJet plates and use the JT Direct when I need a longer run length plate.

This is an old thread but after reading some of the responses to my post I thought I should add to this. We transitioned to inkjet ctp after our laser ctp system went down a few years back. I currently have an Epson with the Ultrachrome K3 inks (vivid magenta). I currently use 3 different...

The solid print test is a good indicator of the problem I just mentioned in my previous post.

If with running metal plates (polyester plates can and do stretch) the other units all print the same except the Magenta that rules out paper stretch or fan out in the corners. Not 100% sure on your particular press, but most multi color presses have an adjustment on each tower for parallel...

The "REDUNDANT SAFETY SYSTEM FAILURE" deals with the safety circuit for the covers and includes the emergency stop buttons. If a cover is open the switch opens the circuit disabling the machine from running, but it will inch. The two emergency stop buttons each have 4 wires to them. When the...