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We are looking for a hand foil stamper machine. The kind that you could find in the back of a bookstore. Years ago I had a stamper, but it got “lost” in a move from one house to another. We have occasional requests for very short runs of foiling and specialty runs like foil stamping a logo on...

Our thriving trade print shop is losing a letterpressman who is quite talented at foiling and embossing on our Kluges. (Only trade shop between Mexico and Phoenix, Arizona. GCC union. More than 10 employees.) He’s getting old and he just doesn’t want to drop dead at the feed table...

We bought a used (and operating) index tab cutter this week. Our machine maven is cleaning it, etc., and he's asked me if there is any documentation for it. I know the previous owner and his peccadillos... there is surely no documentation. The only real tracking information is a plastic...

We have purchased a used Digibook 300 XL Pro PUR perfect binder and the nearest dealer is unable to set up any training for several weeks. We would like to get this machine running as soon as we can. Does anybody know this machine? We are in a Southwestern US city that is somewhat off the beaten...

We have a customer who needs runs of about 600 laminated-wrap PUR hardbound edition comic books half a dozen times a year. Trim size: 6.62" x 10.25" upright, 48 or 64 pages of 70# gloss book (100gsm). The books sell for a high price, so packaging and handling have to be impeccable. No mashed...

Is there a laminating person who can clear this up for me? I have been told by several binders and laminating shops that hot lamination over aqueous coating is not going to give a dependably good lamination job. Rather, they say it is better to not use aqueous coating at all. We prefer to use...

We have a customer who publishes comic books and has shown us a 12pt C2S stock that has a hologram on one side (laminated or foiled) and is coated on the other. We know that the stock can run through a BizHub, We would love to get into this, even for short runs. The retail sources for similar...

We are looking for a bookbinder who does, among other PUR binding, casebound PUR perfect binding. (Need endpapers, no headbands, but nice.) Failing that, we'd consider getting into it ourselves. We are a trade print shop and have a customer "who has a customer" who needs about 500 casebound...

These are new Fuji LH-PJ plates, size 616 x 726 x 0.3. Expiration date: January 2021. $400 per package of 30 plates each. (Pretty deep discount.) Plus shipping (≈ 35# per package from 85713 Arizona). Good plates, our problem with them is that someone ordered them without thinking what size...

I am looking for manuals, parts lists, diagrams, (anything!) for Electro Sprayer Systems' E-500 unit that is found on circa-year-2000 Komori presses. Electro Sprayer Systems was sold 15 years ago to Harris & Bruno, who sold it to another company that went out of business. If you can help me...

We had to disassemble part of our unit #1 of a Stahl T-36 buckle plate folding maschine. We are looking for drawings of any kind for the clutch assembly for the handwheel. The assembly looks somewhat different from what we'd expect and we don't want to mess it up when we put things back...

We do a fair amount of numbering work on our Heidelberg windmill. We'd like to do more, but our sources for reliable numbering machines seem to have dried up during the Anti-mechanical Revolution. We have used some of the machines advertised as "new" on ebay and other places, and they don't...

I don't like it. Far too distracting. I'm "A.D.whatever" or "O.C.whatever" to start with and this is just plain cruel to my poor brain.

We have this unit for one of our booklet stitchers and would really like to get it operating. The unit punches booklets during the bookletmaking process, to deliver saddlestitched booklets that can be inserted into ring binders. Does anyone have operation and setup instructions for it? (We DO...

Does anyone know why carbonless fanapart adhesive is so doggoned expensive? We are presently paying more than $200 a gallon for this stuff. As I remember: decades ago the stuff was about $40 a gallon in quart containers, which was high, but not like this. We presently buy Appvion brand, which...

We are trying to find a schematic for a little ol' 28" cutter we've been using for years. (Yeah, we've got a Polar 36 and 45 and a lot more... but this is perfect for some jobs that need a bit of babying.) We need to find an electrical schematic for this little one. We've got a parts manual...

Die cutting from steel rule dies is a pretty straightforward process to estimate in terms of presswork. It's pretty much figure how long to make ready, figure IPH, and run with it. Trim out is also pretty straightforward. Just figure cutting time. But waste stripping seems to trip up a lot of...

We have a Moll pocket-folder/gluer (Blue model) and get a ripple on one pocket when we fold stock heavier than 12 pt. (See my picture of a sheet of 14 pt.) The ripples average about 7/16" apart with about 1/8" variance and happen only on the outer edge of the pocket on the operator's side. It...