Hi Everyone.
I'm after a bit of advice regarding a certain job we have to print on a very regular basis.
The job is this:
Many (up to 100) volumes of mono pages, ranging from 100 to 600 pages, printed double sided. We print these with no problems on our Xerox 4110 mono device.
So far so good - now the tricky bit!
Each of the volumes has to have tabbed dividers inserted (these are 5 part reverse Xerox dividers). The dividers each have to have some text printed on them, which the client just supplies as a text file.
Our 4110 printer has no Fiery or Creo, just the Xerox internal RIP which is VERY limited in what it will do.
So at the moment I have an InDesign template that I created and I manually copy and paste the client's text into it, and then print the tabbed dividers separately. We then spend ages (sometimes hours upon hours) manually inserting the tabbed dividers into the printed volumes. Currently, our client puts a blank page with a black strip down the right hand edge where the tab has to be inserted, to help us locate it.
We are increasingly spending more and more time doing this job so we have started looking at an alternative method.
Xerox have offered us this:
Exchange our 4110 for a 4127 with a Xerox FreeFlow RIP and FreeFlow Print Server software.
We are told this hardware / software will enable us to print and insert the tabbed dividers at the same time as printing the rest of the document.
This all sounds VERY IMPRESSIVE and we are off to a demonstration next week.
I was just wondering if you Guys are faced with similar jobs and how do you go about them?
I have many technical questions for Xerox, such as 1. How does the text from the client's text file get onto the correct tab. 2. What happens if only 2 or 3 tabs are required in a volume (what happens to the rest of the set?) 3. How easy is the software to learn, and how steep is the learning curve?
If any of you Guys have any info on this sort of work, or the Xerox FreeFlow RIP or FreeFlow Print Server software, I would be very grateful.
Regards.
Lee.
Sorry for the long post too!!
I'm after a bit of advice regarding a certain job we have to print on a very regular basis.
The job is this:
Many (up to 100) volumes of mono pages, ranging from 100 to 600 pages, printed double sided. We print these with no problems on our Xerox 4110 mono device.
So far so good - now the tricky bit!
Each of the volumes has to have tabbed dividers inserted (these are 5 part reverse Xerox dividers). The dividers each have to have some text printed on them, which the client just supplies as a text file.
Our 4110 printer has no Fiery or Creo, just the Xerox internal RIP which is VERY limited in what it will do.
So at the moment I have an InDesign template that I created and I manually copy and paste the client's text into it, and then print the tabbed dividers separately. We then spend ages (sometimes hours upon hours) manually inserting the tabbed dividers into the printed volumes. Currently, our client puts a blank page with a black strip down the right hand edge where the tab has to be inserted, to help us locate it.
We are increasingly spending more and more time doing this job so we have started looking at an alternative method.
Xerox have offered us this:
Exchange our 4110 for a 4127 with a Xerox FreeFlow RIP and FreeFlow Print Server software.
We are told this hardware / software will enable us to print and insert the tabbed dividers at the same time as printing the rest of the document.
This all sounds VERY IMPRESSIVE and we are off to a demonstration next week.
I was just wondering if you Guys are faced with similar jobs and how do you go about them?
I have many technical questions for Xerox, such as 1. How does the text from the client's text file get onto the correct tab. 2. What happens if only 2 or 3 tabs are required in a volume (what happens to the rest of the set?) 3. How easy is the software to learn, and how steep is the learning curve?
If any of you Guys have any info on this sort of work, or the Xerox FreeFlow RIP or FreeFlow Print Server software, I would be very grateful.
Regards.
Lee.
Sorry for the long post too!!