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When you look at the entry level color production machines from the various manufactures which ones are better at registration from sheet to sheet as well as front to back. This range would cover from a KM 1070, Xerox J75, Ricoh 751, Canon Imagepress 6010. If there is something substantially...

If you were making about 40 to 80 plates a day and 95% of everything you printed was created in Word and Publisher what type of workflow would you choose to drive your CTP? Why?

If the bulk of your four-color work is coming from Microsoft Office Programs and you intend to run some of it offset, what workflow would you suggest in order to handle black conversions for text and grays? Is there a simple solution independent from the RIP that is automated? Do any RIPs offer...

We currently have a polyester plate maker and a 2-color portrait press. We plan on acquiring a landscape 4-color press and would need to upgrade our plate maker. Most runs would be short between 1000 and 5000 and every once in a while runs of approximately 25,000. I would like to go chemical...

I am doing a letter fold but do to the poor layout I am having to make a big adjustment on the fold. The first fold is at 3 3/8" and the second is 3 13/16", and I am folding up & up & out. The edge of the inner panel edge is about 7/16" from the crease. What is happening is the inner pannel is...

This is what I would like to do, and I am sure it can be done. I want to drop a PDF/JDF file into a folder do some things to such as color conversion and imposing based off of the JDF information then I would like to automatically send it to a printer. What I want to know is if the JDF file...

I downloaded the trial of PowerSwitch and I am have a couple of technical questions about how to do certain things. How can you get your flow to detect the size of a pdf and the finish requirements, so you can direct it to your proper imposition hot folder then to the proper printer whether B&W...

I am at the beginning stages of looking into web submission software. However, I am convinced when I implement whatever software package I decide on the number of jobs received by the shop will increase twenty fold while the volume of work might only increase by fifty percent. The reason for...

I have had my QM46-2 for about two years and I have a few questions to see if other owners are having the same issues as me. I have seen people on youtube run envelopes with no trouble; however, they are a royal pain for me. I am lucky if I can get a few hundred between jams. Am I doing...

Has anyone here used automatic spiral inserter machines like GBC's Digicoil, Sterling Coilmaster Jr., or JBL's CB30QS machine? If so, which machine have you used and what is your opinion on it?

I am a print shop manager in an in-plant. One of my biggest problems is fonts. Most of the documents I get are from Word or uneducated Publisher users. Some other problems are users creating a two-color jobs in CMYK and black text not being pure black. Currently we handle everything we get on an...

I am a manager of an in-plant and I would like to get into web to print in the future, but I have some very specific requirements. I have a very limited number of employees and the job count increase could potentially be significant without a huge increase in actual impressions; therefore...

If you were printing approximately 500,00 impressions a month and had to keep the machine a minimum of 5 years which of the following machines would you be most likely to buy and why? Which would you be least likely to buy and why? Xerox Nuvera 120 Xerox 4127 Oce 4120 KM 1050 Ricoh 6135 Cannon...

I am in the process of revamping the digital/pre-press side of my department. In the past we used a one vendor solution that provided software and a scanner to scan hardcopy work, set tray pulls, tabs, and make last minute corrections and feed that data to their print engine. In the future I...

First let me say I haven't been running a press very long, so I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to sporadic issues like the one I am having. I print short run letterhead jobs a lot; most of the requests are for very short runs 500 to 1000 at a time. I have in the past ran a bunch these...

If you were buying today would you rather Creo Darwin Pro with a free upgrade path to Creo Darwin 3.0 or would you buy XMPie uDirect Studio? And does anyone know if you pay a maintenance fee with Darwin and receive upgrades or do you just buy the version of the software each time?

We have a job that we print every week for the school district that consist of standardize test. Currently we are printing 60 tests for every grade and every school. So on a week with three tests the drop would look like the following: Elementary School A 60 Grade 1 Math Test 60 Grade 1 English...

Our in-plant will be getting new equipment late this year, and I was wondering what equipment people here think fits my wants the best. average 1,200,000 impressions a month peak is 2,000,000 a month must be able to insert sheets via a cold paper path must be able to print tabs and handle...