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    Gracol 2013 incredibly washed out

    I am sure we are doing something wrong. But we are getting very washed out results attempting to convert our files to Gracol 2013 in acrobat (when printed) Our goal is to ink limit incoming files from customers at 280%. So we have been trying 'convert color' in acrobat to convert to gracol 2013...
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    Morgana major fold plate reset zero?

    Anyone have any ideas on zeroing the fold plates on a morgana major folder? Or what might be happening? Its new to us, and I think its position on the belt is wrong... the dial is out of whack.. it will go 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, as you go from closed to open.. around the 3-5 inch area its out of...
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    Switch from Baum 2020 to Horizon AFC?

    I am considering moving from our older baum 2020 folder to a used Horizon AFC 544.. We run 19x25 sheets often as well as digital work. Any comments or suggestions are welcome. Right now the baum has good and bad days doing a half half fold on the 19x25 in prep for the muller. Can the...
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    How do you name files?

    Curious about peoples file naming structure.. we currently name files for a job with the work ticket number in the name. That seems to be a bit labour intensive to me when you have reapeat jobs to have to go rename the files. We have them attached in our mis system. Also there can be...
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    James Burn Docupunch issue

    We got a hold of a used JBI Docupunch recently, and are having some trouble with it. The back jogger seems to be working intermittently. Most times its triggered, sometimes not so we have sporadic sheets that aren't punched correctly. Anyone have any ideas what to do about that? Any help...
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    Are you competing against trade printers now? 4over going direct.

    Apparently 4Over is now going direct. We just had one of our clients send us a quote screenshot addressed to them from 4over. In no way, shape, or form, would they look like, be represented as, or be mistaken as a printer or a broker. Spoke with customer service at 4over and they claim it is...
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    Xante Warning

    Just wanted to throw a heads up out there to anyone considering Xante as a supplier. I had read various positive and negative comments about Xante, and made the decision to try their envelope printer around this time last year. Great concept, even momentary flashes of what it is advertised to...
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    SM74 Scuff?

    Hey everyone.. we had an sm74 installed not long ago. It is not a new machine.. but new to us.. and we are having a really frustrating problem that we cant seem to shake so far. The press operator is sure its scuffing, but we cant figure out why... the press was installed with orange transfer...
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    Hardware to address magazine?

    Hi everyone, We are looking for some machinery to allow us to address some of our current projects that we are sending out. Magazine style newsletters are the particular project that we are stuck on. Not sure what to look for that can handle this, hoping someone can point me in the right...
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    Color management issue?

    Hey guys, We've run into this a couple of times now. Generally with supplied files so its hard to see it coming. Today we had a pdf of a business card supplied to print.. the background was one shade of green.. and behind a couple of logos the green matched perfectly on screen with no change...
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    Equipment supplier warning

    Hey everyone, I have used this forum for information and support for quite a while now, and would like to offer out a warning about a dealer we have had the misfortune of using twice now. If someone can let me know if that is ok or frowned upon, I would be happy to share my experience and the...
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    Registration on part of the sheet off??

    Hey everyone, Ive got a really odd problem I was hoping someone could try and help out with.. we are running some business cards on our 4 color GTO.. the sheet size is 12.5 x 19.. press handles up to 14x20, and the stock is just a regular 12 gloss tango. There are 21 up I think, 3 rows of...
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    Un-solvable Picking Issue?

    Hello Everyone, I frequent the forums looking for solutions when we have problems, but though anything I can find on here, plus anything we try through suppliers, we can't seem to solve this problem. No matter what we do, when we have a 2 sided job we cannot back it up untill a couple hours...
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    crooked scoring on folder

    Hello everyone, I was hoping for a little help with something. We used to score everything with a Letterpress but its getting quite old, and I wasnt happy with the scoring quality. (Plus I find it slow to set up and run). So we invested in two things.. a tabletop Morgana for small run and a...

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