billykid25
New member
How you all doing out there?
I am not a printer, nor do I know the first thing about the industry. About a year ago I became the owner of the entire equipment inventory of a local offset printshop. (Long story). The former owner was an older gentleman who retired and pretty much had his shop sitting there collecting dust for a few years, I had the local printing repair guy check out the equipment and he told me everything was in good shape and really well taken care of. I contacted some local printers about selling the equipment to them, and a few of them suggested it might be a better idea if I hired a pressman to operate the equipment while I took care of the business end of things, thus starting a business.
Here is a list of what I own:
rebuilt AB Dick 9800 with crestline
AB Dick 360
Heat Seal 115 shrink wraper
Plate burner
Camera
numbering unit
Sunraise thermography
jogger
Baum Air folder
5 station inserting machine
ab dick 30 station collator with stitcher
plate processor
film processor
cutter
light table
and a whole slew of tools, paper and ink
So my question to you guys is in your opinion, first; is getting into the industry a bad idea? And if I was to start a business (assuming I hire someone who knows how to run a shop) are there any other pieces of equipment I would require to get this going?
Any advice would be extremly appreciated, I've been back and forth on this idea for about a month now and its coming down to decision time.
Thanks,
Billy
I am not a printer, nor do I know the first thing about the industry. About a year ago I became the owner of the entire equipment inventory of a local offset printshop. (Long story). The former owner was an older gentleman who retired and pretty much had his shop sitting there collecting dust for a few years, I had the local printing repair guy check out the equipment and he told me everything was in good shape and really well taken care of. I contacted some local printers about selling the equipment to them, and a few of them suggested it might be a better idea if I hired a pressman to operate the equipment while I took care of the business end of things, thus starting a business.
Here is a list of what I own:
rebuilt AB Dick 9800 with crestline
AB Dick 360
Heat Seal 115 shrink wraper
Plate burner
Camera
numbering unit
Sunraise thermography
jogger
Baum Air folder
5 station inserting machine
ab dick 30 station collator with stitcher
plate processor
film processor
cutter
light table
and a whole slew of tools, paper and ink
So my question to you guys is in your opinion, first; is getting into the industry a bad idea? And if I was to start a business (assuming I hire someone who knows how to run a shop) are there any other pieces of equipment I would require to get this going?
Any advice would be extremly appreciated, I've been back and forth on this idea for about a month now and its coming down to decision time.
Thanks,
Billy