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common gordo be honest to yourself. we all have gotten old and grey in the industry and have seen the dramatic shifts. i am glad we have trimmed our operations to the leanest and source all major long runs outside where everybody are just killing each other. i do not want to argue on this except...

we have a machine dedicated to all these stupid customers who gave us RGB files and we run them on this machine everyday. just keep going and most of them are small jobs. we dont run them until they come. 1 copy show to them you happy? they say yes. give me 200 please. we print the pay. sayonara...

onwsk8r > you are so right: most of them are very small customers with one time jobs nd they never come back. i deal with them this way: we provide pleasing color or accpetable color to us and hopefully to you. we do not want to match your job with precision because you are paying too little...

As I have said and I will repeat it again: as professionals we deal with "artists" who in the work represent the incomptence of those that taught them design in school. Times have really changed.

wow it is so comforting to know that you have a customer who knows what is cmyk. most customers just see them as colors and we are running tons of work on our xerox and canon digital printers and most of the files we have are PDFs form original files whose graphics were all set as RGB. actually...

Hello Mike: In our experience with the 9985 it could be low voltage: we always got this message at the old place until we moved to a bigger place. There the machine was plugged into a 220 line and it just went away. The manual says 208 but the electrician assured me that it is true 208 but it...

hi all: i wake up everyday and tell myself > i am just the printer > what your file is > that's what you get. we usually run a proof > then they come around and dclare: "this is so cool" (meaning praise myself!) then we let them sign the proof sheet on both sides and we run the job. we run a...

@dabob: dont we miss those days? > this is such fun to have time to send messages > but do enjoy your coffee this morning. things are getting to roll today and i am on my way to have my first coffee this morning. peace and blessings my friend

@zombie: they can look for cool fonts and some photoshop plug-ins we are still at the end process > think of it this way > they can write their scripts but they still need Universal to distribute their film > thats what they are or else they can drool over their design on their desktop HP and...

i am not very kind to them: one time a young woman came with a job that after we "proofed"; she came and asked again for another proof and another proof. what she was actually doing was she wants to generate several versions for her project. she wanted reflex blue which we hit on the dot: so...

@zombie and @barb > that's because the schools are homes to these "new elite" that because they think they have a college degree they are out to rule the printing world. what they do not realize is this world is built by people who learned from each other especially their predecessors about all...

you are welcome. you can get a nice canon color copier for your digital needs, short runs which we have, i will check the model. do not do for the DI because it will give you a host of problems you dont even want to dwell into. keep your litho press runs and be happy. thanks and have good...

for 100k digital will rob you guys pf profits. besides there are no digital plates that can run 100k. staying to your standard litho with computer to plate is good for you. also it is less stress on maintenance and consumables.

you are so right flexogrunt > the craftsmanship is lost in the process > but who really cares > most of the people now are just as you said; this is ok now push the green button. the passion that at one time pervades within our industry is gone > no wonder the wages keep going down > soon the...

this is a plague to all of us because the schools that teached pre-press have people teaching who do not even have the slightest idea about printing on the other end. the only printer they know are the ones that populate their desktops. printing: offset or digital have their own peculiarities...

call it the china syndrome but that is the company's mindset now or else they will pack up and send the work to china or india. what happened to the american dream?

I suspect that after carrying Van Son for a long time and knowing where Van Son is sourcing their inks, they must have taken the direct route and ordered their own inks from that same vendor in South Korea. Is or are they good? You bet because VanSon will never have their name attached to an ink...

alcohol or alcohol substitute in our kompac is a sure K plate killer. try to clean your system and just use plain water. also avoid a very soupy ink. this is a sure toning factor especially when using fountain solution and alcohol substitute. thats it. good luck.

No. if you mean linting or pulling of fibers from the paper substrate? You have to check that the contact of rollers to your plate is as per kimoto specs and also your plate to blanket has to be as per spec so you can run as much as 10,000 per plate. Sometimes, toning is caused by fountain...

i waited for more than 50 years to see one like this. truly a wonderful presentation. thanks