While just about any printed piece that is not Aqueous or otherwise coated will rub, but the Indigo seems to be EXTREMELY vulnerable to this and it seems to be it's Achilles Heal. I recently printed a 6 page brochure approx. 4" x 5" finished size. After it was scored and hand-folded, the minimum handling of the finished pieces to jog into a pile of 20 to be rubber banded, scuffed the printed image from the back page onto the front cover of the the piece below, Just thus little bit of handling made the job in my mind unsuitable to deliver to the client. If you cannot get it out of your front door without scuffing, how is the client going receive them. I mean, let's face it, what client wants even the slightest scuffing on the cover, especially on the front cover of a photographers self promotion.
Job printed on 130# Silk Cover and run on a 3500, which also could not print the image square on the sheet. Seems the sheet was skewing through the machine and HP said 130# was pretty much outside the thickness they "support". Unfortunately, it seems that the shop that tried to print this could not fix the skewing problem as well.
There were 2 other components, I guess I could have gotten away with the postcard as it cut and packed and would have survived the shipping to the client where it would have been inserted into an envelope and mailed.
With Indigo's exceptional print quality (better than I believe to the Igen), other than a perfect bound book for example where sheets are not going to be handled so to speak, it seems you need to really pre-qualify the job for the Indigo.
Other than film laminating, anyone have any ideas? Maybe a uncoated or Gloss coated stock would have yielded better results.
Job printed on 130# Silk Cover and run on a 3500, which also could not print the image square on the sheet. Seems the sheet was skewing through the machine and HP said 130# was pretty much outside the thickness they "support". Unfortunately, it seems that the shop that tried to print this could not fix the skewing problem as well.
There were 2 other components, I guess I could have gotten away with the postcard as it cut and packed and would have survived the shipping to the client where it would have been inserted into an envelope and mailed.
With Indigo's exceptional print quality (better than I believe to the Igen), other than a perfect bound book for example where sheets are not going to be handled so to speak, it seems you need to really pre-qualify the job for the Indigo.
Other than film laminating, anyone have any ideas? Maybe a uncoated or Gloss coated stock would have yielded better results.