evoprinting
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Hello all, First post on this board. I've been searching the forums for weeks now. I have a couple of questions and open for suggestions for CTP...
We are a small shop, currently 3 people and growing although in this economy not as fast as I would like. So here are the facts:
1. We have an AB Dick 9810 with T-head and a Ryobi 3302.
2. Most of our work is 1-2 spot color work with occasional 3-4 spot colors. All of our process work is sent out.
3. We are currently using the HP5000 with Laser poly plates.....ugh! They work OK for what they are, we only use them on the 9810 for line work, 500-1500 imps, single color runs.
4. For the rest of our work i.e. 2+ colors, critical registration, half tones and screens and all of the work on the 3302 we send out for negatives that are output @150 line screen. This involves emailing the files to our provider then within 24hrs driving approx. 10 miles round trip to pick the negs up, (10x13 neg = $15 each) then stripping and plating the jobs.
5. We are making approx. 5 plates a day including the poly plates which I wouldn’t mind dumping totally.
6. I have been talking to reps from Glunz & Gensen (Platewriter 2000), Mitsubishi (ECO 1630) and Presstek (DPM 34sc). All are around 30K… We have pretty much decided to stay away from the G&L as everywhere I turn people seem to say stay away. Although we ran a test plate and liked the results. From what I here the machine itself has issues. I can pick up a 3 year old DPM34 plate setter for around $10,500 which sounds much better than $30,000!!!!! Although it is a couple of years old and we would need to pay for training etc….
That my short story, any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks!
We are a small shop, currently 3 people and growing although in this economy not as fast as I would like. So here are the facts:
1. We have an AB Dick 9810 with T-head and a Ryobi 3302.
2. Most of our work is 1-2 spot color work with occasional 3-4 spot colors. All of our process work is sent out.
3. We are currently using the HP5000 with Laser poly plates.....ugh! They work OK for what they are, we only use them on the 9810 for line work, 500-1500 imps, single color runs.
4. For the rest of our work i.e. 2+ colors, critical registration, half tones and screens and all of the work on the 3302 we send out for negatives that are output @150 line screen. This involves emailing the files to our provider then within 24hrs driving approx. 10 miles round trip to pick the negs up, (10x13 neg = $15 each) then stripping and plating the jobs.
5. We are making approx. 5 plates a day including the poly plates which I wouldn’t mind dumping totally.
6. I have been talking to reps from Glunz & Gensen (Platewriter 2000), Mitsubishi (ECO 1630) and Presstek (DPM 34sc). All are around 30K… We have pretty much decided to stay away from the G&L as everywhere I turn people seem to say stay away. Although we ran a test plate and liked the results. From what I here the machine itself has issues. I can pick up a 3 year old DPM34 plate setter for around $10,500 which sounds much better than $30,000!!!!! Although it is a couple of years old and we would need to pay for training etc….
That my short story, any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks!