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We're about to be up on a lease with an older Konica C7000 machine and want to install a mid-volume printer like the V180. One of the main areas we need help in is envelopes and Xerox/local partner are saying the machine handles envelopes well. Wanting to get a feel for users out there about...

I've asked about this topic a few times already and we're still experiencing some unsatisctory results on our sheetfed presses. We operate two SM presses from Heidelberg: an SM74 and an SM102 both 5 color plus coated presses. I've noticed that we tend to see a lot of trash or marking in a lot...

Hey all - we're considering moving some consumables to another vendor (deeper incentives with new vendors...you know the game) and was wandering if anyone had a brand/series of blankets they like to use and would recommend we try? We run an SM102 5 color 2007 press. Thanks!

How often are most people adjusting their press curves, especially those targeting GRACoL using G7

We've had demos on Fuji's XMF and it looks like management is interested in moving from Prinergy to XMF. For those that have migrated from Prinergy (or any other system) to XMF would you mind sharing any problems you stumbled upon? I am sure that XMF has the capabilities of doing what we...

Hello out there! We have a customer that is wanting us to produce hang tags in 14-18pt C2S in and 87-88 bright white sheet. None of the main brands that we have access to: Carolina, Tango, etc. are in the 92-94 bright arena. Is there anyone that could point me in the right direction? Thank...

Hello all. Attached is a photo of our current screening settings within our 5.2.2 workflow. We are experiencing some issues in grainy screens and gradients and I wanted to reach and see if anyone had some suggestions on what kind of screening angles they use. Thanks!

Hi there, I have posted a few topics on similar issues but I wanted to reach out again with some more details. We have been having issues on both our Heidelberg 5 color presses where when we print gradients or certain color builds and even in photographs we get "dirty" results. What I mean by...

A lot of times when we normalize a file and then send a customer a PDF file for proofing, we do this either by "publishing to PDF" or downloading a high resolution proof from Insite, there are artifacts like chocked type (that being the most prominent artifact) in the post normalized PDF files...

We recently printed a job that was a re-run from another printer. One of the pages had a gradient from green to yellow across a page. At press we noticed the gradient printed very grainy and was not a smooth transition. I have attached a photo of a sample that was provided to us that was...

We have been noticing that when we print gradients from light to dark that there are typically hard lines and a general grainy look to the printed image. We are currently printing (on coated papers) 175lpi elliptical dot with standard angles from Prinergy. We are fairly certain that it isn't...

We recently produced a repeat job for a customer that had originally been produced by a competitor. We were in the middle of a press heck when the customer pulled out the previous printed sample. We were pretty close but the competitor's print was simply cleaner. We were printing the same...

Looking into HUV, wanted to gauge user responses. 1) Are there any major issues being experienced in the field? 2) Any advice on which manufacturer has the best technology? Thank you in advance

We are running into an issue with Darwin and the IMB barcode: When we process a mailing list through NCOA and CASS certification, not all records receive a ZIP + 4 code (either the list wasn't managed well or a street name was misspelled, etc.) When we merge the processed list into Darwin...

I am trying to figure out how to get the "best" CIP3 data to our 2 heilelberg presses (1 - SM74 and 1-SM102). We are currently using Koday Prinergy and Prepress Interface to send the CIP3 data to the presses. Everything is working properly, but I am not convinced that we are getting the most...

So we have been running Darwin Pro with our Xerox 800 w/ Creo CX1000 RIP for a while now and it has been pretty cool. But yesterday we encountered an interesting problem. We had a job that was 12,355 records and when I setup everything in ID CS4 and tried to check my variable data using the...

Hello, I am curious if there are any upcoming Prinergy training seminars/classses anyone knew of. Tried looking online but to no avail. Our shop is in desperate need of training... Thank you!

Okay, I made a post a few weeks ago and I still need help. I am working on a Windows machine and all of our other designers are running on Mac's. Also a lot of our customers use Mac's and send us InDesign files with fonts for us to print from. My problem is my Windows machine won't see the...

Hello, I am new to design and I am working for a small digital print shop with 3 other designers. Everyone but myself is working on new Mac Pro machines mostly in InDesign and Quark to check files and prep jobs for print. I am on a PC and use Suitcase Fusion3 as my font management system. I...

Has anyone had any troubles with the Xerox 7002? We cannot seem to get a consistent job run on this press. We've changed out the developer and everything and still it looks bad. Any other presses we should look at? Thx