Chris J Murray
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I hate doing menus for this very reason as the vast majority of them are written on the back of a napkin. They will not scan and convert to text or if they do you will spend so much time correctingbthe text you may as well have wrote them out.
If your customer has typed it out and then printed it out you may have some luck and I use Adobe PDF which has a convert to text option in the full version.
If anyone has any fool proof ideas I’m all ears!
Chris
Sorry just noticed you ment voice to text. Have you tried creating a voice to text note on your phone a d emailing it to yourself. Every time I ask Google anything she seems to be quite acurate
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Usb DVD drive from the likes of Argos will cost about 20 quid and just plugs in as and when you need it
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Oh. Don’t buy everything at once either. I only ever bought the guillotine because I had a few people wanting full bleed leaflets before that I always told them they were "budget" leaflets and there fore came with a white border – If they wanted full bleed then the min order run was 1k and I would just out source them. 99% of customers were happy with that.
The card creaser I bought because I had to print some menus on plastic paper and it was the only way I could fold them neatly. I lost on that job due to the upfront cost of the folder bit it has paid for its self many times since then.
Cheers
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Sorry but that’s a complete rip off. The reason why you can get all that equipment for such a small amount of money per week is because they are nailing you to the wall on the click cost.
For example if I were to have contract on the bizhub with the company who supplied it they were quoting me 1p per black and 2p per colour page including all consumables.
I run a small (very) copy shop in Penrith and if my basic costs were 8.5p per page I may as well shut the doors. A basic photocopy costs less then 1p including the paper
The trick I have found when comparing costs is to forget the toner cost but look at the cost of the drums, devs and transfer belts etc. They are the items that potentially write the machine off if they all come in together (this is where a service contract comes in)
Finally stay away from eBay if you are looking to purchase a machine they are only being sold because they are reaching their end of life in terms of drums etc. You are better off finding a local company who sells them and buy a refurbed printer from them my canon I bought from eBay for 500quid and so far have spent at least 1k on it and there is still more to come, on the other hand my bizhub I paid 3.5k for and bar a few niggles at the start it has just ran and ran.
Cheers
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You will struggle to find a machine that will print 400gsm and if you do can you let me know please. The 2 machines I use are speced to run a max of 300gsm and that’s from the bypass tray and single sided only. I over drive them massively by running 350gsm through them but it plays havoc on the drums and transfer belts.
I own my machines outright and pay as and when I need and that works for me. One machine is a bizhub c453 and the other is a canon c7055. If you are wanting to run heavy stock often you had better get used to cleaning rollers as the paper dust makes the machines slip on the heavy stuff and it can drive you round the bend.
For leaflets I use 130gsm glossy stock and print from the trays but again you need to keep the rollers spotless as they can and do jam often due to the gloss.
I have a limit of 1k of a5 leaflets before I outsource due to the cost factor and to try and keep wear and tear down.
I onl6ndo basic finishing and have a manual guillotine for trimming and business card cutter and a manual folder these work for me but this year Christmas cards have made me want a better creaser.
Sorry for the ramble!
Cheers
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quote Peter Johnson:There are a few services like this, but I don’t think Paypal is the cheapest.
I know Worldpay do a sort of ‘pay as you go’ option. And another one I looked at was iZettle (https://www.izettle.com/gb/help/article … 75-pricing).
They appear to be well priced and there don’t appear to be any hidden costs.
We use izettle for in store payments and the pdq machine. It’s actually a talking point for when customers come in as it’s a bit different to the regular machines. I also like the fact I can take it with me if I am delivering something and get paid immediately.
We also use stripe for online payments and customer nit present payments.
No problems with either and both work well for use.
Chris