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what is the cost comparison between DeisgnMerge and FusionPro?

My binding appears to be open again according to the photo on the main page of their website. (attached) I haven't tried ordering anything from them though.

It's a used KM-1 with upgrades that mostly make it a KM-1e. I know we can reach out to support but I just figured I would ask here to see if there is anyone else who has run into these problems. KM Support isn't going to be familiar with running jobs on machines from other manufacturers. I will...

It SHOULD be but it's not. The Canon is a PRISMAsync and I'm not sure what the KM1 uses. It's a Konica system but I'm not sure if they're using some other RIP on the backend.

We recently purchased a KM1 and have a great results but occasionally have run into issues with certain screens or images that seem to be getting translated oddly vs our Canon iX3200. I was wondering if anyone out there has one of these and has any certain pre-press or file setup tips.

Yeah I actually got an email from Skandacor, who we buy laminate from and they announced it trying to drum up business as they sell binding supplies too. We mostly make our own coils as we have a coil former but I was getting my filament from Spiral. Of course, turns out they were getting it...

FusionPro can handle that pretty easily. It's a plug-in for Acrobat but the rules and coding are based in Javascript, so it's pretty powerful. I've used it for 4 or 5 years and it's worked pretty great. There's also an online forum that has a ton of resources as you're getting started and even...

When you say poor quality, can you be more specific? From what I've seen, the pigment inks from HP and Memjet look great but color wise, they aren't as vibrant as toner. This mainly because they tend to soak into the sheet a bit more. We don't have a printer with an HP printhead so I can't say...

Did you ever get this resolved? The only thing I can think of that drives us wild sometimes is the (absolutely useless) "select paper tray from PDF page size" option in Acrobat. That little checkbox seems to get clicked and always throws us for a loop. No one ever remembers selecting it. I've...

Yeah, we've had ricoh's for years (9110, 8220, 8320, 7210) and have never had any issues like that. Could be a board issue. Also, when they replaced the HDD, did they replace one or all of them? One of our 9110s had an issue with an HDD and they ended up having to replace all 3 in order to get...

There are several different pricing models to choose from, I believe. One is fully click based and the other gives you lower rates depending on coverage. So, if you have a job that is only using 10% coverage, you get a much lower rate than something that has 40 or 50% coverage. This is useful if...

Option 2 is not the correct model as the SA-1420 SPL doesn't actually glue the sheets. It just presses 2 sheets together after one has been applied with glue. The better option would be the SA-1420. We have the R Gluer from Glue Machinery Corp. It applies a cold adhesive to the sheet and works...

I'll second the fact that quite isn't good for sequential items that need to stay in order. It is pretty good at being able to create custom margins, though. We have a Graphic Whizard slitter/cutter that has odd margins and gutters and we're able to set up our business cards easily. We also use...

Yeah, that's what we have. It works okay but it's slow. Just wondering if there are any better options out there.

Are there any good machines out there for folding nested or corner stapled sets? We have an old Profold machine that works sometimes but it's not consistent and they don't make parts for it anymore. Sometimes we can get through it by hand dropping them in our Stitchliner but that only works if...

We had issues with synthetic stocks on our 9110 and I had to go in and adjust some transfer voltage values in order to get good coverage. Nip adjustments could also help.

I'll add in a second suggestion for the Kirk Rudy FireJet 4c. As mentioned before, it uses the newer Memjet heads. These also use a different ink than previous models like the Mach5, Mach6, iJet NXT, etc. The ink lays down much better and the blacks are great. The black ink on previous models...

I was the primary operator on an Indigo 7600 (I think that is the correct model #) years ago and our shop purchased an iX 3200 last year. We've run into a few uptime issues but that doesn't mean that every machine will be the same. The quality is on par, if not better. Speedwise I believe it's...

Ricoh color machines seem to be pretty terrible when switching between stocks. Maybe the latest generation has gotten better but on our old 9110s, there was a huge delay between sheets unless we told it the other stock was the same paper and used the same profile. Our B&W Ricoh's are much...

As others have said, in an ideal world you'd get a perfect print ready pdf but we all know that doesn't happen. I have clients who will send me work with a great print ready file and then the next day they'll accidentally send me a pdf that's in reader spreads with no bleeds. That aside, when...