How to make Business Cards and more Printing Tips for Digital Printers

How I print and finish business cards. Printing soft cover book covers. Printing and saddle stitching newsletters. Printing monochrome books on the Konica Minolta 1200Pro. Covers and newsletters were printed on a C3070. Business cards were printed on 120lb Uncoated cover paper. Trimmed on a Challenge 305 paper cutter. Imposition software used was PDF Snake, however just using the step and repeat function in Adobe Indesign would achieve the same.

[IchGluckspilz]

PERFECT work environment for me. All machines, no annoying coworkers

[dpiuk]

Nothing beats that feeling when you have 4/5 machines running. Also the slitting machines are rubbish when you have bleed on digital. I bought a polar 66 programmatic and despite the cost the return on time was worth it. I work on my own and have 2 x Xerox 1x Heidelberg platen and HP Latex along with about 30 other machines I keep buying stuff it’s addictive. Been printing 30 years. Love these videos.

[fsmdanimal]

Enjoy your videos. I have a very similar setup as yours.
One thing I’ve found that works great for business cards… instead of cutting the crops to see if the front and back line up, I just turn the flashlight on my iPhone on and place it under the sheet. Easy to check multiple crop marks that way.

[captainkeyboard]

It was good to see a combination of conventional trimming, data file managing and digital printing, all rolled into one. That is what I have been waiting for years to watch.

[debbiedeguisne]

Forehead Slap!! I've been in the printing business for a long time, now running digital. Never thought of using a knife to check duplex registration. Thanks!

[computationalerr]

Everybody saying you should upgrade to a digital cutter. I'm just here in awe at how advanced your cutter is compared to our challenger with the big crank on top and a 5' long arm for cutting.

I need to dig in on print shop operations a bit more before purchasing our next press, but yearbook season is coming up quick.

[BrunosDraftKits]

Just one more comment...If this isn't a sign of how awesome your content is, just look at the stats. 987 likes to ZERO dislikes. Keep up the good work.

[AndresAndyE]

Hey Dan!
I absolutely love the channel! My family currently owns a photocopier store but we really want to continue and keep on advancing to the printing and publishing business.
I enjoy watching your videos so much that I'm pretty much done watching all of them and can't wait for your next upload!
Just wanted to say thanks for taking the effort to record your daily process and to keep it up!
Greetings from Argentina and happy new years! :)

[AnaHernandezMisha]

Make me remember when i used to work as a designer graphic n printer on my old job in mexico, it was so stressing but i was glad to know all the process beside of just design it, when i came to the US, all the designer i meet didn't know anything of the process and make sometimes some mistake that in printing it was difficult to solve

[TampakRecords]

the way u cut the visiting cards and printing on acrobat is very easy type and i even did not noticed that on acrobat... thanks ur videos are inspired me.... love you boss

[QR_Code]

just discovered your channel a couple days ago..now i'm watching all your vids... subbed to get you closer to 1k

[gawainfraites]

Man, that's how I want my print shop to be looking in a few years.

[danielpullenDK]

Thanks for the videos :) I'm learning a lot watching your videos :)

[flangmasterj]

Enjoying the vids Dan. I've been in print for nearly 18 years. Currently running two Xerox iGen 150's, C1000 and two Nuvera's. I'm starting to think the newer colour production machines, even the smaller models like your C3070 are making the iGen platform obsolete. The amount of operator intervention and down time is ridiculous. While I'm inside the machine cleaning, replacing parts, diagnosing issues these smaller newer machines are chugging along with slightly less output but with similar quality. You said you've had one service call on your 3070 since you've had it and that was for just a drum? Now that's the dream right there.

[BrunosDraftKits]

Just came across your collection of videos. My Konica service contract got cancelled for using too much toner, and my biz doesn't support a new machine, so I'm gonna try to learn to change out the consumables on my C2060 by myself. Just an awesome video on the developer unit changeout, then I found this one. I love the little tips you throw in here from time to time....challenger 305 recommendation on the cutter. So informative. Cant wait to dig into more of your videos.

[inkreationssssssssss]

Dangerous Guillotine no safety at all on it. Good work you doing. Like your videos and how you explain it all

[algirdassokolnikas]

Thank you for snake pdf, its as great for inposisioning :)

[SCR]

Just got hired by a print shop and I'm running the show in the back ur videos are extremely helpful. I was wonder where i would be able to find more info with conica

[rickfullerton]

Dan get a Morgana CardXtra Plus. I load the 12x18 sheets, hit the go button and work on something else. Should have bought it 10 years ago. My favourite finishing machine in the shop for cutting business cards.

[cartidevizitaieftine-model]

Nice video! We are printing business cards in SRA4 format (225x320mm), and we are cutting very fast because the sheets are half of a sra3. Good luck!