I've been watching your videos nonstop for the last few days. I've stumbled across your channel because I want to move up. Printing music is a very niche market, and when done right is so rewarding. Started with an old HP that could do 12x18 colour. Moved to an OCE and now a Bizhub C652. Now that my newest machine died, I'm looking at a used press, the C7000 with the SD-506! I had to outsource a job to another printer that had an AccurioPress, and I love the quality! I'm Konica for life! Wish I could afford such a beautiful new machine! Thank you for all your videos, I"m learning so much!

This was truly outstanding. There is a wealth of information that you gave out, which I struggled to find in other videos. And you are right, looking at the comments was very helpful too, I am so grateful to see that other people like to share knowledge!

I love watching you. And period. The topics you talk about are great for us. Please continue with good work

Veteran equipment dealer. Xerox would be a distant fourth place finisher well behind Konica, Ricoh and Canon in the production space......and in the office space too. Konica, Ricoh and Canon are by far the top manufacturers with the best equipment. Dollar Buyout Leases I would advise against as the interest you're paying going that route is very high. You're actually better off doing a Fair Market Value lease and negotiating the buyout with the finance company (note I said finance company) at the end of term IF big IF you want to keep the machine at the end of five years. Your needs five years from now may be totally different. Most important of all, unless you're the exceedingly rare person who can service their own production copier (basically nobody but a trained professional can properly service these machines), your biggest consideration needs to be your choice of dealer. The choice of dealer is more important than the brand on the front of your printer. When your lease payment is hundreds, a thousand or a couple thousand dollars per month you have to have that machine up and running. You could have the best machine in the world but if the dealer or their technicians are incompetent, far away, or just don't care because they low balled the service contract your down time will be exponentially higher. Often you will find that the dealers quoting the lowest prices also have terrible reputations on the service side. Its not cheap to have competent, factory trained, technicians and product specialists, not to mention have an inventory of parts. Expect the best dealer to not necessarily be the cheapest. Don't take the salesman's word for it.....even be suspect of dealer provided references. Ask around. Talk to your local chamber of commerce or others in the business. . Any reputable dealer will be proud to give you a tour of their entire operation. Its a red flag if you can't go beyond the showroom or especially if their facility is JUST a showroom. Meet the people who run their service department. You'd be surprised how many disreputable copier companies are out there. Also a lot of one man bands that are hiding behind impressive websites. Used? Only, I repeat ONLY buy a pre-owned machine from a reputable dealer who you know is going to stand behind the machine. eBay.....NO WAY. There are also a lot of on-line brokers of used equipment who just want to move a machine and they don't give a rip what happens to you once the machine is sold. Those on line sellers would be a BIG no-way too no matter how impressive their pricing or their websites or claims of being local or partnering with local dealers. RUN. I've got no shortage of horror stories I could tell about businesses who thought they got a good deal on-line for a used copier only to find out they bought a piece of garbage that nobody can fix or that looks good but is actually very old in terms of copiers. Beyond 8 years old you are on borrowed time with any copier manufacturer especially post-covid. If in doubt of the age of the model you will often find a copyright date on the brochure somewhere in the margins. Lot of info. Hope it helps someone.

I do binding in my garage. I noticed that the office machines I had access to would print high GSM covers, so bought a OKI 9650. It was still viable when I got rid of it, but OKI exited the printer business and would no longer provide support, so after some 15 years it developed a print issue and the repair shops would not touch it. I ended up with a Xerox Versalink C8000. Its a LED bar printer, which means it can do 11x17 300 gsm covers. I even run 11x19 though it in the bypass tray to make full size 8.5x11 bound books. I also bought a Chinese C50 binder, about a knockoff copy of the BQ-140 binder. Based on your videos, I got a single side laminator setup, formerly I was using spray fixatif on the covers. I have a used Triumph 4810 cutter which is a TANK and will never die. The result is I can produce gloss laminate good quality perfect bound books for less than $5000 total outlay. That's usually a $10k and up capability. The thing I learned: be ware of refurbishers. There are a lot of crooks running around nowadays, who find junked machines, send them to you and then fight against returns or refunds. I learned this the hard way.

Deciding between the top companies, and which is the best option, is not just price. There is service. And when you own a production machine, service availability and the quality of the service staff is actually more important than the price of the equipment. We have leased Ricoh machines exclusively in our location since 2008 due to Konica service issues in the past, when we had those. And have never looked back. Ricohs service techs are very-very good and why most of their techs have been with the company for many years.

We started out by reselling print and it’s a great way to start. The issue we found though was that local customers expect printing done quicker than trade printers could offer so we ended up buying a Konica copier. Ran that for about 6 months and then bought a Xerox C560 which was awful in the end. Quality was good but the placement on the page was shocking. We’ve now got a Konica C3070 and absolutely love it. Prints everything we throw at it with ease. Definitely a Konica fan now.

You are sure right about outsourcing in the beginning.

Forking out from offset into digital, we started with an mgi meteor, and are now running a Konica Minolta bizzhub press c1100. The meteor certainly had it's shortcomings, but was a great learner machine for the KM, since it basically uses the same print engine.

When I had my Bindery there was also an opportunity to put ink on paper.... We had a huge electronics company tank and they had IBM infoprint 1567's everywhere you turn. Those days are gone however the value was the fire sale on the final weekend and I bought the comsumables out of the stockroom for a price that people would not believe had they not been there. My point is look at the angle of who is going down the tubes and how can you act on it. With my investment it literally made a profit the first time I plugged in the machines.... Nice work once again Dan....

hi, I recently bought a used Konica Minolta bh c6500, before that I printed a little on the c224e KM. I recommend everyone to buy KM production machines, there is an obvious difference between photocopier machines and a production machine. In Poland, yesterday, on June 4, we celebrated the Day of the Printers. I wish all printers around the world rich orders and great customers. Greetings!

I work at KM and I appreciate your videos - it’s cool seeing how KM equipment is used and helps print shops like yours!

I've used Canon, Oce and Xerox machines while working in print shops over the years. Canon and Oce always had much better uptime than Xerox did. And the Oce VarioPrints were beasts as long as the maintenance was done properly. One night alone I did 20k clicks of NCR and the only error was being out of paper. We always had problems with finishing our our Xerox machines, the finisher get bumped a hair out of alignment and it was over. Love the IH and A/C signs hanging on the wall.

I owned a shipping store franchise and our corporate office strongly encouraged the franchisees to offer digital print services. I started out by outsourcing my printing to local print shops. Once I got to a run rate of $5k in gross monthly revenue I purchased a Konica production printer. I took sample files to the local dealers (Xerox, Ricoh, and Konica) and had them do sample printing. I provided the paper (sub straight) because I wanted to compare apples to apples. I decided to go with Konica because of their service level agreement. The service techs vary by market. I spoke to a few Konica customers in my market and they were ok with Konica's responsiveness when they had a maintenance issue with their press.

I had a Konica 6500, for me I was dealing with many issue, now I got a Konica 1070 is heaven, way better quality like printing in offset, the toner yield is amazing. The cliente are happy

We started out on a Konica Minolta C550 and are currently running a C1060. It's a reliable work horse that, apart from the usual occasional banding and run-down transfers, has served us well. To this day, customers are pleasantly surprised with the quality coming out of a digital machine, and it's not too fussy about what paper it will print on. We are going to upgrade soon, but only because our lease on the machine is up, and it makes more economical sense to move on to an new contract with the next best model... Also, we're going to get an HP 700W soon, which I am really excited about...

This video is 2+ years old and still super valuable

We started in 06 with two used HP LJ5000 and a Canon A3 inkjet printer and a 60s paper guillotine, went thru KM C350, Ricoh office and then print production and now we have a C6085, a 2250 and 1052.

Started with a KM c6500 now running KM c1085 with inline booklet SD513 saddle stitcher. Great machine, prints on virtually anything.

When i started working in print shop 3 years ago, we had Develop C1060 & Konica Minolta C1085. Now i operate on two C1085, two C3070 and C1070.

Started with Xerox 7435, then Xerox 7765, now running both Xerox 550 and KM c6501. Konica seem to be more stable printer with fewer paper jams. Though it throws many codes, not sure if its about the maintenance. Thank you Dan for this forum.

Thank you for the video.

You are a genius! i wish i would have discovered you before i started my business. I was forced into a contract with a Ricoh 7110. I hate that dam thing, so many plastic parts. GRRR... Im currently doing my own repair on a xerox, bizhub, and a ricoh. Ive bought all the service and maintenance on all the machines. Its pretty much the same process wise but geting into service mode and understanding all the different codes is a bitch. My main machine right now is the Konika 6000 and i just had to re install operating software on the fiery. Yes id rather get a service contract but at .045 cents a click and the run around with some of these techs is ridiculous. Im having a meeting with Shamrock tomorrow and see what they say about trading in some office printers, shredders and cutters i have to get a reliable digital machine and use the konika as a back up. Man you are freaking awesome for this. Love the way you work and multi tasking setting up all the machines moving on to the next, Its great to see people like yourself out there . O and the way you cut business cards is perfect. some guy told me to cut the sheet in half then in half again to eliminate the creep because his ass didnt want to put gutters. What a fucking asshole. YOU ARE THE MAN! It be great to get your insight on the post covid print world and what i can do to attracty more business. 80% of my clients are real estate agents. so im constantly doing mailings either direct mail or EDDM. But now there doing virtual tours so the demand has gone down. Please feel free to call me when you get a chance. My name is Patrick and i could be reached at hameisterp@gmail.com or my cell 925.695.5800. Thanks your an inspiration to stay in this industry.

I started watching Just A Printer because I leased the same color KM production machine KMBS C3070. I tool a gradual path for printers, office machines, used production machine and the KM C3070 was my first new machine. I had through demos on Ricoh, Canon, Xerox and KM. I chose the KM because they are the only manufacturer with a modular system, meaning the front end (paper feed) and back end (finishing, binding etc) work on all their print engines. Such a simple system that I'm sure is cost effective for KM and a win for the user like me. I needed a high end precise paper feed that I could get on my entry print engine. the other manufacturers offer entry level front end and back end for entry level machines. Also the cost and clicks for KM was much lower than the competition. The print quality is the same on all machines. As Dan mentioned my clients would never notice the difference of a print from a KM vs Xerox but they would notice the cost I charge and the speed at which we can deliver.

I still have a Bizhub 6501 a couple of C654’s a Accurio 2060 and a envelope printer Okidata. My main source of print production is still offset presses. Oh and a Bryce address imprinter that prints about 22,000 per hour. I always watch Wirebids in case I see something I can’t live without 🤗

I started out in 1999 running an Indigo 1000 Turbostream. A very costly, complex and expensive machine at that time I progressed to a Hp3050 then a 5500 before I left the industry 5yrs ago. One company did look into Xerox and Konica but ended up with a couple of Nexpress machines. Your advice is spot on in thinking carefully on what machine to install. There were plenty of trade printers here in the UK that enabled a broker to set up. In fact my last employer was a broker until they took the plunge and installed a Hp5500 and then bacame a trade printer themselves.

I think Konica owes you a commission by this point. We're seriously thinking of switching from a Riso comcolor to a KM c258, with the better support & reliability being key selling points. And the comment section on this video seems to be a glowing recommendation too. Turns out we print so little on regular paper that the lower speed is not an issue, and the use of coated stock is going to be nice too. Most of the stuff we do is photo printing, but this is going to be a nice addition.

Respected sir,u saying u r not a perfect engr.but u know best.

I’m in the UK and bought my first production machine in 2007, a Xerox DC260, great little machine, continued with Xerox over the years with Xerox 700, J75 and now have 2 V180’s. We had a Ricoh C7100 for 6 years up to last week when we made our first purchase with KM, the new C14000 which is a beast of a machine, so far very impressed 👍🏻

I started with trade printers. Then the HP Latex and a year later the Konica c3080 (demo unit)

Hi. Thanks for sharing the best ones. I have checked commercial color printer, color laser printer and many different types of printers all my life. One cannot pick and choose amongst those because all have their specifications but it is just that it depends on your requirement. I completely rely on Axis Business Technologies for copiers and printers related decisions. They have been such a help because apart from providing good services, they also offer repair services.

Lol...I started out with a Savin c2525 (oldie) about 7 years ago (looked like what you had sitting there). Progressed to Konica c454e w/full finisher that same year. Am on the lookout for pro now... I think I messaged you on this very subject! Thank you for this.

I started with hp laser jet 5500 and added Canon copier c4580i. The hp was good but could not handle thicker stock. The Canon was a workhorse but issues with colour inconsistencies. I later traded the hp and Canon and move to Konica Minolta and that's where I belong. My first KM machine was the Bizhub c550. Added a couple of these copiers (c451, c452 and c652DS). All work like pro. Minimum jams but consumable life are too short. We now have 4 production presses in our shop. These are MGI dp60 pro, KM C6000L pro, KM C8000, KM 1250p. They are all working great. I personally like the KM C6000L pro. I have used Xerox Dc250 before but the downtime is too much. I will on any day recommend Konica Minolta presses. Cost of running these machines are low compared to others.

Our first digital press was a Xerox Docucolor 260. Then we bought a KM C6000 and a C360. The Xerox was easier to change toners, drums and fusers. Why that is became clear to me running the two machines side by side. The C6000 doesn’t need drums and corona wires changed as often as the Docucolor. I opened my C6000 fuser for the first time two days ago to replace the belt and roller. How many xerox fuser replacements have I had in the past 12 years? At least 20. Now that I service the machines myself, I prefer Konica over Xerox. As for using office copiers, we have the C360 and a C368. They are little workhorses, but not built for production. The mechanicals wear so much faster the the big presses. Well, there’s my two cents worth. Thanks Dan! I do learn something from you every week.

Yo comencé con una ricoh 2550 a color que compre dañada. No sabia nada sobre estas maquinas, fui aprendiendo viendo videos y otras cosas que no estaban en internet las fui arreglando buscándole la lógica, despues de casi un año logre arreglarla por lo completo y comencé a imprimir con ella por un tiempo. Luego la vendi y compre una Ricoh 8002 que es la que tengo actualmente.

If you buy a printing machine you can only write off its depreciation when doing taxes, but when you lease there are benefits, you can write off the lease payments, you will also get maintenance and ink as part of you lease as well. So buying a machine you will have to call a technician to come in and repair your printer and then you also have to buy ink every week. 🤷🏽‍♂️ I think leasing would be the smart way as a business owner.

How I wish I can be your apprentise learning printing. All the best

We just had a Konica Minolta 4070 installed last week. First machine. The printing adventure begins.

Just adding you have a third lease option. You can do a fixed buyout for an amount other than $1. We did this a few times. It was a little more than a $1 buyout but, we knew exactly what the amount would be at the end of the term if we decided to keep the machine.

Started with a xerox 7400 great all rounder up to sra3 print size. Consumables are super cheap. Downsides 270gsm max. Now have a xerox dc 5000ap that I use as just a desk because I can't get it repaired. So now I have a Oki es9431 really good all rounder it will happily take 360-400gsm card.

Thanks for the content! Do you have any suggestions of a good trade print partner for someone looking to dip their toes in the digital printing business.

great video. I would say the most important thing to look for is the service. Your printer is only as good as the service around you. You could have the best machine in the world but if service stinks, you’ll be screwed. You don’t want your machine to be down for a day or two or more especially with every customer wanting their jobs by yesterday.

excellent

Ricoh Pro C9100 is a beast I love it.

I quite appreciate the insights you offered. The comments are also quite an interesting guide. Please I'm planning to invest in DI printing. I started with large format printing. Please I would appreciate if you share a cost calculator template for profit/loss tracking. Thank you.

Started with a Canon c7000 in 2008. Moved to a Ricoh c901, then a c7110. Now we have: Ricoh c9200 HP Latex 335 Print & Cut Printware iJetColor Konica Minolta AL230 Label Press

I think your advice is sound. We got into adding page printing and commercial printing to our existing graphic arts and photo business with a Konica Minolta Bizhub and then went to Xerox Docucolor. Several machines later we are at a Xerox Versant 4100. Kind of bootstapping up to actual production machines once our volumes justified it, as the video talks about. We still use trade printers for a few things - we can't own every machine for every possibility. Thinking about service support is a major factor in choosing how to operate.

Moving my shop over to KM printers from Xerox was the best decision I’ve ever made. Better uptime, better service, lower lease cost and lower click rate cost.

Interesting video, thank you! But at least as important as the printer is the question of print finishing. I am running a small printshop, specializing in sheet music print with small circulations from 1 copy. We quickly found suitable printers. But if you want to offer special binding types for very short runs, it becomes really difficult.I'm talking about high-quality perfect binding, thread sewn stitching or saddle stitching of very thick booklets with spine pressing. Dan, maybe you could give us a tour of your finishing machines? "It's the finishing, stupid" :-D

About the Office version of the Konicas, here in Brasil we use this machines A LOT, i know people that runs literally millions of copies on "Office" Konicas, i think today the best laser printer to start a business here its a konica like that, a C224, C364 etc and the konicas final 8, here in Brasil its very very difficult to buy a konica 3070, is REALLY expesive so you need to have a reaaaaly big print shop to justify buying one of those. Today i have in my print shop a Konica C364, a Ricoh 2051, both color machines, konica to run thick paper and ricoh to run text / color books, a Xerox 5890 (90ppm mono) and a Samsung 4070 for mono reallllly cheap mono printing. I hope you can understand my english, i learned pretty much watching youtube videos hahahah

Definitely important to find out what service and sales teams are available in your area for the different brands when choosing. We have been with Xerox for a while now, and while Konica and Ricoh are offering some competitive prices, in our area, Xerox has a lot more customers, so their service team is larger and more readily available. Our Xerox sales rep and repair tech are so amazing I just don't think we could ever switch. If you're a small shop and don't plan to do the repairs yourself, you definitely want to go with whoever can offer you the fastest turnaround to get your machine(s) back up and running because there is nothing more stressful then having a machine down when jobs are piling up.

Lol. You have many printers it's funny. Congrats on your new printer.

I started out with offsets ABDick 360, Ryobi 3200, then an Oki c9300 was my first digital color machine for color covers for b/w book jobs. Then went to Canon's which I regreted. Upgraded to a Konica C652 with Fiery and Finisher good quality but slow unless plain paper. Also upgraded to a Toko R2SL offset, then a ABDick Century 3500 and a Ryobi 3302 (Item 3985). Upgraded the Konica c652 to a c654e. Ran anything under 1000 on the digital and over went offset. Now I have a Ricoh c901 but parts and toner seem pricey compared to Konica. I have an Oki c9650 for envelopes with a feeder/conveyor. Looking for production Konicas as a backup for the Ricoh c901 which is 90 pages per minute color or black and the toners hold about 5 pounds of toner each. Duty cycle on the Ricoh is 1/2 million per month and quality is extraordinarily great. If you get a service contract insist on 1 click for tabloid paper or reject the contract.

Thanks Dan for your awesome videos! What would you recommend for a new small book printing business (width up to 3cm; only cover needs to be color), that gets similar results to your video "Book Production From Start To Finish, Digital Printing and Binding Perfect Bound Books", but with a ~$15k budget? Is there a KM machine that could do Perfect Bound (paperback)?

I also owned 3 Konica Minolta machines one out of them is c3070 production press and I think according to my experience Konica Minolta is best company to buy digital press 😉

While not being a printer at my last job running IT we had an IK*N lease for all offices for BW and Colour. When it was time to renew the lease I looked at the cost we were being charged per click, even scanning for fax was a click. It was cheaper to replace the contract for HP BW printers and Colour MFPs for each office. At the time we were buying 50+ desktops and laptops at a shot so I told the HP rep to add toner and fuser kits to the order. They would do 80% discounts on those consumables. The printers themselves were easy to fix by my staff. I cannot forget when the I*ON rep was told we are not renewing and would like the machines picked up at all offices.

I bought a used KM1060c 5 years ago in the uk when it was 4 years old with warranty and maintenance contract. I still have it on a maintenance contract and wouldn't do it any other way. I pay around 4.5p (5.7cents) per SRA3.

Do they make a digital press that also cuts? My fast growing business requires a specific size card that goes behind the product with a die cut sombrero hole for hanging. I would love a solution where we could print these cards on demand. Maybe I'm dreaming but I certainly would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!

Started with Xerox. Still run Xerox. Early Nuveras were DOGS. My former employer got one of the first Nuvera installs and it was a complete lemon and we told them to drag it out of there. It was a massive disappointment. We had 180s ready to retire but the first gen Nuvera couldn't do it. The current non-MICR Nuveras are FAR better. The things are tanks. The MICR versions eat heat rolls and there is no fix for it, plus lots more issues thanks to that ink. But it's a solid platform now. This is typical for Xerox. They push the edges with new stuff and it hits the field riddled with bugs they can't fix in the field because they've never seen the problems before. After a year or two, it settles down and gets vastly better. A proven, battle-tested Xerox product like the current Nuvera is a fearsome beast.

I am about to pull the trigger on the versant 280, I am thinking of not optioning the face cutter/ "perfect bound" stapler finisher. How often do people in your experience option the stapled "perfect bound" spine? great vids keep it up!

Thank you for your channel. I worked in a screen print and offset shop and loved it. I have a chance to get a Ricoh MP C4000 with 320k clicks for only $300. I make notebooks as my main product, but not sure if the Ricoh has the resolution for graphic covers. Think it’s worth picking up?

If you start now, so many printers are good in all factors. But the most important is the sustainability, efficiency and productivity. If you want a superb quality print, go for the Ricoh Pro c7210sx or xerox Iridesse Then if you want a newly good go for accuriopress 4080 and if you want an overall the best go for the inkjet printer like accuriopress km1e, fujifilm Jpress 750s or HP Indigo series

I'm running a Konica Minolta C7090 and a Konica Minolta C1085

Just an addition whether you have to have a printer under contract or whether you buy the supplies separately. This also depends on your order book. In your vlogs I see that you mainly have book productions with a low ink utilization, then purchasing supplies separately is more economical, but if you have an average ink utilization of, for example, 30% then a fixed tic price is more interesting.

If u were an indie author and wanted to print your own books instead of using offset or POD, but actually start your own publishing company that essentially prints your own books…but also try and keep it as lean as possible, what equipment would you need and recommend? Let’s say the goal was printing 5000 books off the hop but wanting it scalable to be able to print hundreds of thousands to millions…basically I’m wondering what it would look like to print and ship my own books for an upcoming release…what would I need?? And could I get the job done in a small office or room… -printer -paper cutter -binding machine -laminator -anything else I’d need and would love to hear your recommendations! Thanks bobby

Have you looked at the Ricoh Pro c7200 with 5 colors? I have calculated cost/print on many machines and they are all about the same. You will pay more up front and less on supplies/parts, or the other way around. Most important is that you can print close to the manufacturer's recommended monthly volume. Write off of the machine makes up for a good part of the cost/print.

I love Konica Minolta!!!!!

Hi, where do you buy your A4 printer paper from and how did you find them? I'm looking to start a small A4 paper wholesale company but need ideas on how to make the business grow apart from distasteful cold calling.

A primeira que usei foi uma HP CP1025 color, estou usando atualmente uma Ricoh MPC 2800, quero demais comprar uma em breve a Konica AccurioPrint C3070L

Approximately 14 years ago, I had the opportunity to work with a Fuji Xerox machine for 2-3 years. Following my departure from that position, I pursued a career as a freelance designer. Now, I find myself contemplating a return to the digital printing industry as an entrepreneur. Recently, I've been enticed by testimonials from acquaintances who enthusiastically endorse the Toshiba brand. Do you think opting for Toshiba e-studio printers is a wise decision?

Thanks for your advices. You made me make a decision on Acuriopress C3070 and man, I cant regret. One question bothering me though, can you trust printing 350gsm on it? I'm not sure I heard someone say they affect the drum or some part. Previously I have been running KM c224e, which I still decided to keep, and I've been doing 350gsm on it (though it's not supposed to) but Im hesitant to try 350gsm on this very expensive machine, and I could not afford maintenance contract with it. Kindly advice.

I have a question. I see your beautiful place where you print the product, but do you get all order over Internet? What is my main question is when you have an order do you print a sample to the client or do you print the whole stock of the order? Because I have a printing-house too and 90% of all of my order I need to print a sample copy and the client have to see and agree with the quality of the product and then I print the rest of the order. How do you manage when I client what to view a sample before getting the main order?

Hello, congratulations for your video very informative, i call it a tutorial. I am majory concerned with one very important issue or factor or may be its not very important as i think. The issue of DPI. What is the basic acceptable dpi for a graphics press. I see most. Office copiers like konica c220 is 600x600, c454 is 1200x1200, a big press like konica c7000 is also 1200x1200, konica 1030 is 1200x1200 too. But konica 3070 is 1200x3600 dpi, xerox c252 is 2400x2400. Between the konica 3070 and xerox c252, which is better in terms of resolution and color cosistency?

Hello thanks for this precious session My question is we will start our printing business like printing flyers business cards enveloppes small books posters we have the choice between KM C4065 OR C 450 I or a xerox wc7845 thanks 😊

You should do one week about what it took to print a book job back in the 80s. What all machines then negatives and all the good stuff.

Congrats fo the great job! I have this old - but still up - 652 . It was recently displaced and is now showing the message: "a component is open", pointing to right hand bypass tray, which is closed. Don't know how to check further. Any thought appreciated.

I must be the only guy here still getting dirty printing offset. I started out printing on a halm superjet. Now just small roll to roll. I also help on the larger book presses printing sigs.

Hello, I looking for a printer that I can print short run folding cartons. 450 gsm. Any recommendations?

My first machine was a HP CP4525. But my production run machine was is a konica minolta C6500. And my large format is a HP T770. BTW, Dan, did you happen to order that developer unit you were talkin about in your error 2804 video for the C6500? The /k unit is definitely giving me the same issue again. I have cleaned that sensor about a billion times. I did notice that a chunk of the rubber piece that is supposed to keep the developer and toner off that had been torn off.

always a good advice... your machine in our place cost more than arm and leg... what is we are using today is epson L1800 printing on C2s paper, it takes forever.. to print a page

I have seen print shops start out with konica mid volume machines. You can put a FIERY on most models. When buying used machines be sure to know the "end of life" or obsolete dates. Finding support on old FIERY devices that run windows xp can be challenging. Microsoft may also not support drivers on older machines.

We still have single color offset presses for super long, single color runs. Then moved into digital. Started with old KM 200 and 400 series. Then got a KM c353. Then got a sharp 7001n, never jams but print quality was lacking. Tried a brand new sharp...same print quality issues and the fuser quit at 27k :/ Meanwhile the KM c353 made it to 690,000 before we swaped it out. We don't lease anything anymore or pay clicks...we only buy used machines and run them and fix them or call a tech for big stuff. We now have 3 KMs, a 253, 452 and 652 , a Richo and a smaller lexmark 8770x that prints bW only but at 70 ppm...and it unjams itself...which is crazy...only 1,200 new. Big KM fan now and want some newer models but these are amazing for the cost. This week alone we ran 5k 2prt NCR printed 2 sided and 500 8.5 x 11 notepads at 100 sheets per pad on a c253 i got for 200 bucks 3 years ago. They are little beasts!

Hi and thank you for such a good video ! I want to get into Digital Print and I already read all the comments here (over 300 haha). What I noticed is (almost) no one is talking about Canon printers, users said more KM, Ricoh or Xerox. For me as a beginner Canon looks just fine just from some internet research I did. My question is : Is something bad/wrong with Canon (quality, price, etc) ? (reason that almost no one here uses Canon machines)

I started with KM C458, Canon IPF770 and some office inkjet printers. I would suggest to have one new copier with service contract or used copier serviced youself, and don't waste money on desktop printers. A production press is a significant investment to start with, but as I know the cost per click is about 40-50% of office copier. There are no prefect solution, unless you have existing customers. I setup my own rules and pricing with customers to adopt my machines.

I cant decide on a business card printer. I need one to do about 100-500 a week. Can you make a suggestion please?

Very cool and inspiring video thank you! Let's throw down the pros, who is also in this business or is going to!

Hi, we have Xerox Versant 180 in UK. Production print quality is so good. The bad thing is you must stick with click agreement, otherwise toner yields are at 3000 clicks and toner prices are high, and click costs are high as well. We are ordering toners repeatedly, for one order we spend at least 2 toner cartridges. We tired with Xerox Versant 180. When we buy it first day, it was putting vertical lines on 350gsm paper, we called engineer, many parts are taken out at first day. Still, it is making vertical lines sometimes. We print mostly 150-200 gsm colour flyers. According to your experiences, which machine can be a good choice for flyer printing with low running cost which can create similar quality? We do not expect same quality.

Hi please can you tell me which printer model you are using for book printing and book cover printing, I have a publishing business I was outsourcing the printing work till now, but now I want to setup for printing own books so can you please tell me which printer model will be best for starting book printing For book pages printing and for book cover printing or a single machine that can do both.

Hello Sir, I am a graphic designer from India. Now i am thinking to buy production printing machine. so i am confused with Konica Minolta Accurio Press C4080 and Ricoh Pro C5310s. Which one is good for color accuracy and good quality production printing machine?

I want to get into the Digital Press world! Indeed I have a decent demand and I've been looking for the KM C3070. Is it recommended to get the equipment second hand? Any idea where I could get it?

@justaprinter would you share a pic of the paper drawers on one of your Konicas? I recently purchased a used c5500 and took the drawers off to reduce weight…I forgot to take pictures and now I can’t get them to fit. Thanks in advance

Looking for input/recommendations. I'm wanting to print number bibs for marathon races on a Tyvek type(Heat sensitive) material. I'm trying to determine which press would work best? Just looking for entry level/used for prototype production at this point. Then I can sale up. I've read that the KM C6501 can print to Tyvek. I've also read that the Ricoh C5200S can print to Tyvek. Others? Thought? (Needing color and low print costs.) Thanks!

thank you :)

yo comencé con una ricoh de oficina una pmc3000 buen equipo pero tenia sus limitaciones en calidad y en gramajes luego me cambie a xerox 550 muy buena calidad pero los costos de producción eran muy caros y luego compre una Konica c454 y esa si me rindió full los tonners así que ya que verifique con trabajo q si era mas económico me fui x una Konica press c1060 usada y me fue muy bien luego compre una ricoh pro 5100 también me parece excelente equipa mas económico los suministros pero se desgastan mas rápido también así que tengo las 3 marcas por que me parece a cada una tiene sus fortalezas en alguna y ahora ya nos fuimos x una konica press c4070 por que ya teníamos limitaciones con gramaje y ya ganamos hasta 360 gr por que antes solo teníamos hasta 300 gr. esa es mi humilde experiencia desde ecuador.

Good morning sir I run coaching class and monthly print duty cycle is 3 to 5 lakh copies . please suggest me which printer is best for me canon vario or konica 6120?

I like ur office so plz make a tour for ur workshop

Hi I am following your useful Chanel. Recently I made decision to buy new Konica Minolta AccurioPrint C4065 3600x2400dpi for high end printing art book and PhotoBook that is better than old one AccurioPrint C3070L 1200x1200 dpi I guess. Please let me know based on your well experience, is this decision is correct? Thank you

Ricoh 7200 for toner and my favorite is a RISO 9635 inkjet.

where can you buy the transfers

What do you suggest for printing out banners? Such as A0? Or in sizes such as 800x2500