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There are many great options for health care. One is to move away from LOW deductible HIGH premium. I personally use a health savings plan that has a max out of 6k. I think said plan costs around $250... I'm allowed to contribute 3500 tax free a year. Even if I fell out of the US of A and landed...

If you have work (as I stated above) to run the DI 5 days a week I think it's a great fit. You let it sit things will go south.. These machines like to be run in a clean environment. There are many large trade printers that use DI presses for specific jobs. I know the local Presstek rep and he's...

So jobbing out and cost is highly dependent if you are breaking the setup costs. You say 5k impressions. This would imply a duplex 12x18 with 2.5M? If this is the case you would need 8 plates for every 5k impressions. Comparing just plate cost to impression cost is a good start. I see the...

Isn't the point and usefulness of all technology dependent on the benefits it offers the end users? The benefit of a common language is realized only if vendors universally make use of it. As you mentioned a vendor can use any one of many data models to communicate, but the purpose of the JDF...

I've seen many glowing flow charts of how JDF will make the print shop sing in harmony but I haven't seen much real world JDF implementation. I feels like the standard popped and dropped in the mid 2k. Adobe pulled JDF support in Acrobat XI. I'm not aware of any finishing vendors that...

The Konica C6100 is a very stable machine and the quality has been fantastic. We've run quite a bit of 26"+ on it and the IQ does an amazing job registering the front/back of the sheet.

I think Cannon is really good for matte prints and also textured stocks. I like Konica and the toner is much more flat then it used to be. They have an entry level C3080 that's pretty budget friendly. Our C6100 is stunning quality and no marks from the printer which is nice. Ricoh has a very...

I would consider the KBA Rapida 75. It is pretty impressive with all the automatic features.

I300 doesn't even come close to the quality of the KM1 :( It's not even in the same league.

I don't see why booklets would be a strong point for a press like this. It doesn't support mixed media nor does it support inline finishing. In realty the press is not even close to a conventional press in speed. A conventional sheet feed press runs at 12-16K sheets/hr vs 3k. In fact if you...

I'm not downplaying the technology as I do think UV inkjet has some strong advantages when it comes to specific substrates. Early adoption of a technology isn't cheap. Shutterfly is a rather unique case (accounts for their purchase of four KM1s). Most decent digital presses coming in at less...

Not sure how you do your workflow, but we 2 up if it's a letter size book and then split the stack on the cutter. In this case you could print a slip sheet with solid coverage. You should be able to get it to register as a 1 click for billing. You probably pay less for b/w if it really has that...

Can you pencil out the cost VS traditional? This thing looks cool, but I haven't seen much on the cost of operation. I'm sure UV inkjet ink manufactured by KM is many times that of traditional press UV ink. Isn't this much like the presstek model (we are the only source of consumables)...

Does anyone have any insights into this digital press? There appears to be around 15-20 deployed in the US. I'm trying to objectively look at the market and price tag on the press to figure out why it would be attractive considering its cost (approx $1.5M). I'm not sure how cost is justified at...

Kind of like fuel prices. We're paying $3.01 here in OR.

Most rips allow you to load the PDF and then specify media based on job page ranges as well as inserting separator sheets. I know this is true of the Fiery rips. Like this: https://xerox.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4884i3CD3788AC8D173E2?v=1.0

Back in the day we had a few issues with blazer, but millions of sheets later we love it.. Sure it's not premium, but for the price point I can't find anything like it. I have zero complaints. Udigital was a knock off of blazer and I hated it, go figure. We like the Endurance Digital line of...

Have you looked at the Océ VarioPrint? A shop I know is installing two of them. The speed is controlled with licensing up to 306ppm.

Assuming the verso = blazer flavor. We're in the metro and are around 15-20% below those rates.. That soporset seems way high but I've heard navigator is focusing on Europe and kind of pulling back here in the US. It is nice to be able to order by 6pm and have it in the am. Does veritiv break...

Why wouldn't you just print on the original sheet after it's been UV coated (never have done this and not sure it's a good idea)? Are you not cutting the stacks in house? We run walk sequence cards through our UV on both sides all day long and have never had a problem keeping them in in stack...