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    Used or New Kirk-Rudy NetJet?

    I'm upgrading my envelope printer to a Kirk-Rudy NetJet and am thinking about buying used. Does anyone have thoughts on buying used? I've heard some people to buy the base used but buy the heads new. What are your thoughts? Thanks.
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    Lease & Print Charge Price Comparison

    I'm curious to see what others are paying on their lease and their print charges. I'm not sure if mine are high or low but here they are: Xerox V180 with V180EFI 60 month lease - $805.31 B&W Impression (all sizes) - 0.009 Color Impressions (legal size and under) - 0.036 Color Oversized (11x17)...
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    Postcards - What is your Workflow??

    I'm curious how your process is for running postcard orders with a digital printer. Here is how we do it and I'm wondering/thinking there is a more efficient way. This process is for each order, whether it is a 1,000 order run or 20,000. 1. Prepress design with Indesign 2. Imposition using...
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    Garage Environment

    My company is growing out of our current office space and I'm looking at large spaces. I know that temperature/humidity control is important for paper and machines so I wanted to see if people could provide some feedback about having machines and paper material stores and used in a garage (see...
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    B2C W2P Solution Questions (Pressero?)

    I think it's time for my company to start using a W2P solution to keep up with our orders. We provide direct mail products to B2C only and all of the orders come in through our website. We have been using Woocommerce for the past 3 years which has been working well but now that orders are...
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    Direct Mail Shop - Need better workflow due to growth

    I run a small direct mail shop of 9 people. We have been growing pretty quickly over the past couple of years and need better automated workflows to offset the demand for more staff. One of the biggest bottlenecks for us is in pre-press. We have 1 person in that position and he is having...
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    Direct Mail Web-to-Print or MIS Recommendation Needed

    I run a direct mail company that services customers throughout the US. We are growing rather quickly and are in need of some automated workflows on the web-to-print side as well as the production workflow side. My company is still on the small side so I'm sensitive to pricing. Presswise seems...
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    Konica C3080 vs. Xerox V180

    I'm looking to upgrade my equipment and just got pricing back from both machines (see below). Can anyone provide a recommendation based on their experience with either of these machines or their predecessors? Also, how does this pricing look. I will be mostly printing on 11x17 paper. Xerox...
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    Need help with Workflow/Procedures

    I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post this in but I'm looking to hire a consultant to help me create efficient workflows in my business. Does anyone know of someone that does this?
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    What software for postcards & flyers

    What software are you guys using to design and print postcards and flyers? Is indesign the go-to software?
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    VDP Recommendation

    I'm currently using Publisher for VDP for postcard jobs. The issue is that Publisher is crazy slow and usually crashes when I send more than 1,000 records to my printer. The goal is to have a good VDP solution for my postcard jobs (printing 8 to a page) and other VDP jobs. I'm looking for a...
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    How important is a service contract?

    I'm looking at purchasing a slightly used Konica C1060 or C1060L and am curious how important everyone thinks it is to have a service contract. I've seen that they can be quite pricey so I want to understand what they include. What do you think about about using a third party which charges...
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    Digital Printer Recommendations

    Hello Everyone, Right now, I am using 4 HP Officejet Pro X576 printers to do the following: 1) Color printing on 70lb 5.5"x8.5" paper (~50k/month projected) 2) Color printing on 70lb 8.5"x11" paper (~50k/month projected) 3) Color duplex printing on 11pt 8.5"x11" postcards (I cut these down to...

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