"It Shoots through schools"

Busy all year...June hit and crickets. Our bindery, paper, copier sales guys, all say the same thing crickets.

Appreciate all the info....I too believe they are "plastic" and look at them accordingly.

So far I have the Cannon proposal
Waiting on Xerox (Have a cousin who is a big wig there)
Sharp

It's gonna come down to bang for the buck but none of the machines I'm looking at lease for more than 1K a month so were not sweating it too hard.

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Appreciate the feedback. We position this as a cost effective alternative when customers cant afford offset pricing, or if it needs a quicker turn than 4over. We found that our clients will pay a few extra bucks for the service and record keeping we do.  Can't tell you how many "buyers" tell us "same thing you did last time"

Any idea how many clicks per month they run?  We average 20k for both B&W and color per month and if it went to 60-80K per month we would be amazed so just trying to make sure we are looking at the right machine.

We have always been a traditional offset shop here, lots of 12-24 pt SBS and die cutting. Starting to look at the big toner machines as there is a local need here and we have been growing a decent side business with it.

Put in a Sharp office copier and we have it up to 20K per month both B&W and 20K per month color.

Looking at the Cannon, and waiting on a proposal from both Sharp and Xerox.

Main thing will be programs, short run 8.5 x 11 newsletters,Presentations, Instruction sheets, NCR

We do a lot of retail display work so maybe some price cards.

So anybody have experience with this guy?

Any particular one I should be looking at?

We are about 16 miles out side of NYC in NJ so service coverage has never been an issue but curious as to the level of service from Cannon.

"Ram is like peanuts to an elephant. The more you give it the more it wants."

Quote from: Joe on June 08, 2017, 09:13:20 AM

Quote from: Santa on June 08, 2017, 09:08:58 AMThe configuration attached will run all the needs of ANY pre-press environment for quite some time.

The new "Pro" models are really if you are doing 3D rendering in real time, Solid Works, any type of VR, or major code compiling.

It also fits perfect into any form of major broadcasting. An 18 core with matching graphics card would allow you to drop HD Graphics, in real time on a multi display 1080P display. Think of any major sports broadcast with score overlays happening in real time and that is the customer.

For the rest of us we get an awesome machine for $1699 that should last 5-7 years.

Agreed though I would at least double that RAM if you are running CC 2017. Or quadruple it if the cash is available.

All 27 inches have user replaceable ram so I usually go with stock and then upgrade via crucial.com when needed.

The new one goes to 32gb and by the time I need that crucial will probably be selling it for $20 per 8gb..lol

The configuration attached will run all the needs of ANY pre-press environment for quite some time. 

The new "Pro" models are really if you are doing 3D rendering in real time, Solid Works, any type of VR, or major code compiling. 

It also fits perfect into any form of major broadcasting. An 18 core with matching graphics card would allow you to drop HD Graphics, in real time on a multi display 1080P display. Think of any major sports broadcast with score overlays happening in real time and that is the customer.

For the rest of us we get an awesome machine for $1699 that should last 5-7 years.

Oh those paths must have crossed.  Spent/spend many a Sunday at Pennings and their new Cidery...will keep a look out!

HighLand Lakes isnt a haul..I come from West Milford everyday..brother comes from Warwick.  Only places you can afford if you have a family printing business. 

Now if I would have just clicked "Business"instead of "Politics" in college than I'd be in Franklin Lakes...but I'd also be an ahole.

Quote from: Farabomb on May 26, 2017, 06:48:12 AMI don't have anything but does the pressman have to take his beer goggles off and put on the 3D glasses in order to print it?

BeerGoggles are S.O.P @ our place. Farobomb...Dad raised us well.

Thanks David, I'll check that out.

Mr Google said it was "Anaglyph" printing...big words. 

Also found this site and gonna give it a whirl on the proofer.

http://tabberer.com/sandyknoll/more/3dmaker/anaglyph-software.html

Hey All,

Wondering if anyone knows of a program you can use to creat 3d print seperations.  The old kind with the blue and red glasses.

About ten years ago we printed some stuff for Time Inc but they supplied the files (looked like an out of register prog print)

Thats the best practice...have you ever read the terms and conditions on those splash screens before you connect to "free wifi."
NSA treats your privacy better than what those terms say

Quote from: Possum on May 23, 2017, 03:08:03 PMIt seems to be even worse on a cell phone. All I wanna do is play a little solitaire, but it's tied to ads. I snagged some free (not public) wi-fi, and kept getting ads telling me to push this button because I have a virus or my memory is full. Heck, I haven't used even five percent of my memory, and besides, I'm not as stupid as I look. But I can imagine the people who panic as soon as they see the word "virus."

These guys are no better than the ones calling me telling me my Windows computer is calling them for help, when I've never owned a Windows.

This is a new thing a lot of "marketing guys are pushing" it's location based advertising with a geofence (defined area of space). When you connect to their wifi they can attempt to "side load" and app..i.e not through an app store. Most of it is just annoying ads from car companies, but some of it can be real nasty. 

https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/

free ....works great..gets rid of Genio, maccleaner..etc.

Run it everytime my kids get off Steam...that platform is ripe with adware.