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By garytheprinter on March 7, 2010
When it comes time to put pieces of paper together, you’ll be counting of the services of bindery equipment.
Posted in Printing Equipment | Tagged bindery equipment, book binding, comb binding, gbc, ibico, perfect binding
By garytheprinter on March 4, 2010
While many have said that the digital era would unceremoniously be the end of the line for offset printing machines, that simply hasn’t been the case.
Posted in Printing Equipment | Tagged commercial printers, heidelberg, high volume printing, offset printing machines, offset printing press, perfecting press, web offset
By garytheprinter on March 2, 2010
In the world of digital printing equipment, you have a lot of choices.
First of all, the term “digital printing equipment” can be a bit ambiguous as it can refer to printers, copiers, and presses.
Posted in Featured, Printing Equipment | Tagged bizhub, digital press, digital printing equipment, hp indigo, igen4, nuvera, xerox, xerox 700
By garytheprinter on March 1, 2010
If you’ve ever seen a box of office paper with it’s plastic straps or a bundle of newspapers, you’ve certainly seen the handiwork of banding machines.
Posted in Printing Equipment | Tagged ats, automated, banding machines, tabletop, ultra sonic banding
By garytheprinter on February 27, 2010
Pad Printing Equipment
If you need to print on three dimensional objects, then you’re going to need pad printing equipment.
It’s well suited to printing on small spherical objects.
Here is just a small list of what it can be used for:
Golf Balls
Pens
USB Flash Drives
Coasters
Stress Balls
Spherical Objects
With a pad printing machine, you can personalize or brand almsot any [...]
Posted in Printing Equipment | Tagged ink cup, pad printers, pad printing equipment, used printing equipment
By garytheprinter on February 25, 2010
Shrink Wrap Machine
A shrink wrap machine provides you a great way to not only protect your products, but also to group certain items together.
Let me give you an example. I recently purchased a home study course and it was divided into four weeks. Each week included a manual, DVD, and CD. To make [...]
Posted in Printing Equipment | Tagged continuous band sealers, heat gun, heat tunnel, i-bar, l-bar, mail bagging systems, shrink wrap machine, sleeve wrappes, straight bar, vacuum sealers
By garytheprinter on February 24, 2010
Short Run Printing
The combination of digital printing equipment and the Internet has made cheap short run printing a reality.
In the old days of offset printing, the major expense was getting setup. It cost almost as much to print 1 copy as it did to print 1,000 copies.
Digital technology has change all that, however, and [...]
Posted in Printing Equipment | Tagged digital printing, disk, dvd duplication, kunaki, lulu, short run hardcover book printing, short run printing
By garytheprinter on February 13, 2010
There’s often still plenty to do after the printing gets done – here’s some of the equipment you may find yourself in need of when running a printing company.
Posted in Printing Equipment | Tagged binding systems, laminators, numbering machines, paper folders, performating equipment, printing finishing equipment, trimmers
By garytheprinter on February 13, 2010
Color Printing Press
If you’re in the market for a color printing press, figuring out the right solution for you needs can be a bit of a challenge.
Do you go offset or digital? If offset, how many colors?
For example you can get 1 color, 2 color, 4 color, 5 color, 6 color, and even more advanced [...]
Posted in Printing Equipment | Tagged color printing press, digital press, heidelberg, heidelberg quickmaster di, hp indigo, offset press, offset vs digital printing
By garytheprinter on February 13, 2010
Used Printing Presses
Getting a used printing press can be a great way to economically start your printing company or it can allow you to have a backup unit in the event that your main press breaks down.
It can also allow you to get a better system initially than you could afford if you were trying [...]
Posted in Printing Equipment | Tagged hamada, heidelberg, roland, ryobi, used printing equipment, used printing presses
