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I am considering buying an envelope printer and have seen one of the memjet printers in person but am not confident it can meet my needs. Can you guys give the pros and cons of the Oki 900 series and the Xante Illumina? Thanks

A couple of more quick questions: 1. Do you find that you have to use special paper to achieve sufficient print quality (higher quality envelopes or letterhead? 2. Do you find it cost effective to run other products, such as letterhead? I currently am still running letterhead offset because of...

We are a hybrid offset (1 and 2 color) and digital printer (Ricoh c900). I am currently looking at both the Formax and the iJetPress (from Pressware) that are both memjet printers. Color seems to have improved significantly with the rip systems that have been developed. I looked at the Rena a...

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We print vinyl decals for various clients - one of which is a large manufacturer of truck trailers. One of the decals is printed on our Roland 640 on clear vinyl with a red, white and blue inks, even though we are using a laminating spray. We recently have had issues with the decals...

We are a relatively small shop with a Roland Soljet Pro4 XR-640 and a Roldan SP-540V. We have recently begun having problems with the hemming tape that we have been using. The hems are separating on a fairly regular basis. Any suggestions on a reliable solution for a good hemming method...

Arrosetti - One quick question on the Duplo: I have looked hard at buying one but just keep getting stuck on whether it will work well for digital production. We run a Ricoh 900 and do about 1.2 million clicks per year and am looking for a way to automate cutting. I am hesitant because of...

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I am a small commercial printer with both offset and digital production. I have an old Challenge 26.5" hydraulic cutter but think I can save a significant amount of labor by purchasing a new programmable cutter. I am evaluating the MBM Triumph 721 (28" for $25,000) and the Duplo 660P (26.5"...

I have a competitor in a small town that is going out of business and I have an opportunity to buy their Roland vp-540i to help ensure they do go out. Any feedback on what it would be worth at 2 1/2 years old? Thanks for any input you can give!!

Does anyone have any experience with any of the Risograph ComColor machines? On paper, it looks like it would be a great solution to save print labor and time but have they "perfected" digital inkjet? Any other solutions that would work for digital production environments? I have a Ricoh...

Thanks for the input! Al, my thoughts on the labor issue is to transfer skill sets from multiple press operators that can also assist with bindery to more graphics skilled personnel that can also operate the digital equipment, perform bindery or finishing tasks, etc. I may be a bit naive (thus...

I own a small commercial shop with 2 one color offset presses, 1 two color offset, and purchased a Ricoh c900 last year that we now have approx a million clicks on. I would like to automate more printing for things that don't run well on the Ricoh (envelopes, textured stocks like linens & laids...

Msaeger, I now understand what you meant. Being a Ricoh tech, I know this may be throwing you a meatball, but waht are you seeing from uptime and consistency with the 720? I am beginning to lean that way but don't see sufficient feedback to make me "warm and fuzzy" yet. I have talked to some...

OnDemandBindery, How has the FedEx brand helped you? I have considered looking into the UPS or FedEx shipping center possibilities but cannot place a value on the retail revenue vs. the expense associated with higher rental rates for a shop with higher foot/car accessibility and the cost of a...

I saw the Ricoh 720 in action yesterday and must say I was impressed. It is definitely more "industrial" looking - it was bigger and was constructed of much more metal components. One thing that did surprise me is that they state the output is 72 pages per minute but that is really 72 images...

Thanks MagicBox. I am currently dealing with an independent rep company but they have brought in the Xerox reps as part of the deal. What is your opinion of the pros and cons dealing with a rep vs. Xerox direct? I have a good relationship with the local rep but have not really thought through...

Thank you for your input. The information on the rated pages per month was new information to me - I had assumed (my father always warned me about that!) that the pages per month we clicks, regardless of size. I have read and heard of a significant amount of color consistency issues with the...

I am in the process of evaluating various light production digital presses and have narrowed the competition to the Xerox 700, Xerox 550/560, the Ricoh c720/c900 and the Canon 9075 pro. I wanted to evaluate KM but they have no presence in our southeastern location. We are currently a...