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Advice on printers, printing press, and laminators please?
Hi all. I have a few questions for you full time pros. I have been sign making for 13 years now, but part time inbetween my other businesses. I have now decided to go full time.
Up until now I have farmed out/sub contracted all my business cards, flyers & digital print. I have now decided to do it all myself in house.
My questions are:
I need recommendations for a wide format Digi printer.
Also need recommendations on a printing press for business cards/flyers.
I need a laminating machine what would you recommend?
Basically I want to start printing business cards, flyers, posters & menus as this is where most of my work is based.
I need to know good printers, laminating machines & guillotines etc.
Any help & advice would be gratefully appreciated. I live in Spain.
Any offers of second hand equipment I would certainly consider. Could be a nice little holiday for a engineer to help set it up!
Many thanks! -
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Hi
thats a lot of big questions which really depend on type and amount of work load. All the priters will do what you want, but different reasons for eco solvent,latex or uv. All have plus and minuses and suited to different usage and envoirenments. Small format stuff again depends on qty you want to run etc i’m sure that someone can give more info than i can on that.Kev
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We run both large & small format machines. There’s very little overlap between either. What we use for LF isn’t used for SF and vice versa.
Ideally you need a production machine that can handle high volumes. We run a Xerox 550 with fiery RIP, high capacity feeder & finishing unit.
The Xerox is under a service contract paid for by a cost per click… Every sheet costs Xp so at higher volumes you can get cheaper prices from lithographic printers.
Then you need a guillotine, they need 6 monthly services for H&S to cut down your print. Booklet maker, laminator, wire binder, creasing machines, folders, collator as things grow.
It isn’t cheap to set it up properly and you’ll need a high trough put of the [u]right[/u] work to make it pay. If you sell mainly high volume full colour flyers stick to subbing it out.
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