Getting away from lease payments was the best thing we ever did many years ago. But we know the repair guys...in a pinch. Congratulations on your channel's success! I'm a print nerd/fan....that's a thing. Lol
A few weeks back our flatbed operator was cutting reams of paper. He was taking a knife and cutting the outside paper. I walk over pick one up slap the corner on the table. He goes show me how you did that. I did. He goes where did you learn that. I said watching a guy on RUclips. Thanks Dan.
When faced with an issue where I needed to scan a screened halftone, if you have the capability to reduce by 5%, hardly noticeable in the final product, it should help to avoid 'Moire-pattern' on the halftones and give you a little more space to create a gutter for your signatures. I assume the re-print will be perfect bound.
Just wanna say, you thought me so much. I work in the Pharmaceutical Industry and I have to print a lot of machine Report (e.g. pressure, levels, etc. of machines) and I learned a lot of how to get the best quality of print and how to keep my printers running for a long time. Thank you
I usually combine the two PDFs (the grayscale and black and white one). I just delete the photos from the black and white and delete the text from the grayscale and then combine them. It takes some time, although with batch processing it's easier. I guess you can count it as a redesign if you've done this much work on the book. You can also transform the text only to black and white in photoshop as a solution.
@@joejodi927 You need Adobe Acrobat PRO or other software to combine PDF files. There might be website where you can upload files and it will combine them too.
My assumption on the lack of folio sheets is that the bigger shops are gobbling them up for their 40” presses. Sucks though, because some textured stock they only sell in parents or 8.5”x11” and I try to run everything 12”x18”. So weird how just a couple of years ago this was never a problem.
4over and the like are gobbling them up for sure but even they have cut back on what they offer. Read my comment above on what I heard the reasons for the paper shortages are.
Thanks for the videos. Really looking forward to your new series that you mentioned. I am in the process of taking over the printing place I work at so any tips and ideas are more than welcome!
@@justaprinter Thanks a lot. Your videos are a great help. Stumbled upon your channel when our maintenance guy was unavailable and I had to learn how to clean a charge grid. Learned so much since! Seeing how busy you are and what you can achieve in a relatively small shop gives me great confidence that I can make it work as well.
Definitelly I can noticed you love your job. That is very important. Do you think can I print some magazines with you. look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance.
So city Dan junior revealed...🥰🥰🥰..... Few months ago I got jobs for books scanning and that was a hell of a job. I had faster Xerox's and bizhubs but those glossy pages gave very tough time to finish it. I had to do it in small batches and then reassemble the files....
The traditional headbands were less about structure and more about protecting the ends of the signatures. Since they were actually stitched onto the signatures and wouldn't move from their intended position. I'm sure the glued ones are (or were? For my home made bindings I still put them) because books were supposed to have one and wouldn't look like a proper book without it?
@Matias Tonazzi. Back in the last century, one of my student colleagues at The London College of Printing worked for a large binding company where they had various mechanised bookbinding lines. I'm sure he said that one of their machines could apply "dummy" headbands (not sewn on) to the book blocks. The headband material was fed from a roll, glued on to the head and foot of the book blocks, and then cut off to size. The idea was to make a mass produced case bound book appear more expensive. Can't remember the name of the machine line. Could be one of many names - Kolbus, Muller-Martini, VBF-Sigloch? Stay safe and well.
Paper shortages in cut sheet and especially in rolls are prevalent across the entire domestic US market. There are US mills auctioning off their available tonnage instead of taking orders from long standing customers. I believe more mills will either be transitioning to packaging or coming offline by the end of the year - better stock up.
@@bergencounty6602 it’s a multitude of issues compounding where we are today. A big factor are mills retooling to satisfy different markets such as packaging, increase in marketing activity from a direct mail standpoint, overseas production had been on strike (Europe) or tonnage stuck in ports due to quarantines (Asia), COVID, difficulty in transiting goods domestically, etc. I don’t think anyone has ever experienced anything quite like this in the past 30 years or more.
Hey there my brother I am a KONICA MINOLTA copier technician for over 30 years I worked on pretty much all brands and sizes of them me and my buddy used to talk about starting a copier business
Well Just A Printer.... I am looking forward to you Printer my soft-cover books..Your knowledge and instructions will get their. Soon . Your little helper is so focus like his dad... Thank you for these videos. Without you there's no us. I sent my email to your email..... J.R
It's a good thing the customer gives you permission to cut the book. Often times they don't. There are special 'scanners' utilizing a high def camera on a special stand.
There has been a lot of progress in book scanners and the software now is much better than it used to be. There's really no need to cut any book apart to scan it these days. I saw this video on another channel I watch recently reviewing this book scanner, and it looks pretty impressive: ruclips.net/video/__D_icYubDY/видео.html
@@gorak9000 Time and labor cost is certainly a factor, cutting and scanning in through a sheet feeder is much less labor intensive then going page by page with a book scanner.
@@DerpyMail I don't know, looks like a LOT of time went into cutting it and separating the pages. With the book scanner, it's just flip, click, flip, click. You can go pretty fast. That czur place has a video on their channel claiming to be able to scan a 300 page book in 7 minutes - I have no idea if that's a valid claim. Doing a little back of the envelope calculations, that's 150 page flips in 7 minutes (you get 2 pages per flip) - 2.8 seconds per page flip - seems pretty reasonable actually
Mac Paper and Verative are running at 25% availability on all paper stocks. I can’t get any 12pt 14pt 16pt c2s anywhere. Even 4over has cut way down on what they offer. So same as you, I’ve been running a lot more 8.5 x 11 which sucks! My contact at Mac told me the main paper mils in the states had gone out of business during Covid and a shipping container company bought the facilities and are using the pulp to make corrugated boxes for themselves. This leaves asia as a high production mil but they don’t want to ship to western countries because of cost. It makes sense because any paper I find is Sappi/Moorim or Pro Digital. I don’t see this issue getting better any time soon. What blew my mind as well is prices. I just ordered 1,000 12x18 sheets of 100# cover classic crest for $288! It used to be about $80! 😭
use chain saw or electric circle cutter to cut book bind as small you can. then papers will be same size and separate. but seperate book cover with hand carefully. then put back after scaning book.
@@justaprinter you can also make wood plates to hold book part other than binding part. And straight the whole book first in wood plates then tight the book with clumps. Then cut with electric cutter.
Would you need to take a book apart to be able to get a good scan of an art book? There is one page separate from the piece itself with the info about the piece, comments on it, etc., and the other side with the piece itself, but no backs of pages are wasted. The pages are also big, bigger than a novel at least, and glossy. Dimensions are: 9 x 0.9 x 11.88 inches Unrelated to that but, I want to animate traditionally, and would I need a certain scanner to scan each frame, or is there another type of printer/scanner I would need? Many thanks. I should mention that I’m new to printing/scanning things and I don’t do it often. So if any of these questions seem obvious or anything, excuse me for that
Dan, maybe get yourself a small Mimaki uv printer and get into that to help offset your downtime in digital printing. My uv machine has been running daily and helping bring in money because they are custom jobs I can charge a premium price!
OCR software has had big improvements as time has gone by. Also book scanners where you don't have to cut the book apart have also improved a lot recently. I have no actual experience with this product, but another channel I watch did a review on a large format book scanner recently, and the results look pretty impressive: ruclips.net/video/__D_icYubDY/видео.html. This seems like it's one of the rare kick starter projects that's actually not a scam. Things I'd double check though is if the software is fully self contained, and doesn't have any "cloud" connections, so even if the company disappears eventually, it will continue working - something you have to be careful about in almost every "cloud connected" bs product these days
Ok, being we are both in the brotherhood I gotta ask what was that book. I seen a FD badge on the front, or what looked like it. LOL Glad to see your doing good. We are kinda slow but still keeping things running.
JUST A PRINT, What cheap scanner can scan a whole book really fast and scan it into a PC computer into PDF files? do you know which scanner can do this for scanning books?
@@justaprinter yes but which scanners on amazon can scan books really fast and a lot of pages really fast? most autofeed scanners can't scan books because they are limited to so many pages per scan from the autofeed
I know in command workstation you have a use max density check box. You can also go into the advanced settings of that particular stock and increase the density there as well.
Download the driver available here (www.btapac.konicaminolta.com/utilities/index.html), the TWAIN driver. Real Time Mode gives you more feedback, HDD mode allows you to scan more than one set and then retrieve it. You'll probably need the machine's IP address and some sort of scanning software (full version of Adobe Acrobat for example).
Using babies for more views now. What's in the next episode, take your cute kittens to work day? haha. I wish more older books were digitized and made available...comic books too. There's a few "been out of print for a while" books that I can't even find anymore that I used to love reading. If you need cut sheet paper I have a ton of it. Maybe 100k to 200k sheets left, letter, legal, ledger, 20-28lb. I've already given about as much to some local charities and they said they can't take anymore lol. I sadly don't have much use for it these days. LMK.
I have a question, what happens with papers that are inseparable when scanning, the printer picks two sheets instead of one and also straightening scanned book when they look slanted? And How do you charge for this.
In my case, before scanning make sure each page have some air between. There also some setting for paper weight in scanner. Cleaning/replace roller also help.
Hey Dan! I have something amazing to share with you. In a questionnaire taken by Printweek, I praised you and your work. They have printed the same in the magazine and i would be very happy if i could show you the article. Kindly share your email if its ok for you, i will send you the article.
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I love your depth of knowledge and ability to explain the complicated process of making a book.
Thanks, I'm still learning every day!
Getting away from lease payments was the best thing we ever did many years ago.
But we know the repair guys...in a pinch.
Congratulations on your channel's success!
I'm a print nerd/fan....that's a thing.
Lol
Same here, clicks are the worst. Nerds are welcome here!
A few weeks back our flatbed operator was cutting reams of paper. He was taking a knife and cutting the outside paper. I walk over pick one up slap the corner on the table. He goes show me how you did that. I did. He goes where did you learn that. I said watching a guy on RUclips. Thanks Dan.
LOLOL! Thats great! Glad to spread my paper opening trick around!
When it’s something you don’t see every day. It doesn’t seem so simple.
When faced with an issue where I needed to scan a screened halftone, if you have the capability to reduce by 5%, hardly noticeable in the final product, it should help to avoid 'Moire-pattern' on the halftones and give you a little more space to create a gutter for your signatures. I assume the re-print will be perfect bound.
Interesting, didn't realize the reduction would reduce moire. I'll have to try that.
Just wanna say, you thought me so much. I work in the Pharmaceutical Industry and I have to print a lot of machine Report (e.g. pressure, levels, etc. of machines) and I learned a lot of how to get the best quality of print and how to keep my printers running for a long time. Thank you
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know!
I usually combine the two PDFs (the grayscale and black and white one). I just delete the photos from the black and white and delete the text from the grayscale and then combine them. It takes some time, although with batch processing it's easier. I guess you can count it as a redesign if you've done this much work on the book.
You can also transform the text only to black and white in photoshop as a solution.
Yup, thats one way to do it. Either way its a lot of time.
Could you tell me how to combine them? I am a newbee
@@joejodi927 You need Adobe Acrobat PRO or other software to combine PDF files. There might be website where you can upload files and it will combine them too.
@@justaprinter Got it.. try it later. Thanks
@@HenryLoenwind Thank you for your explanation bro.. try it then.
Thank you, informative, to the point, and sweet baby!
Glad it was helpful!
That boy is definitely yours 😂
YES!
My assumption on the lack of folio sheets is that the bigger shops are gobbling them up for their 40” presses. Sucks though, because some textured stock they only sell in parents or 8.5”x11” and I try to run everything 12”x18”. So weird how just a couple of years ago this was never a problem.
4over and the like are gobbling them up for sure but even they have cut back on what they offer. Read my comment above on what I heard the reasons for the paper shortages are.
Yes, the paper issues changed fast. Lets just hold on and hope for the best!
The black dots on the spine are called collating marks
Yes! I knew they had a name. Thanks for letting me know!
Thanks for the videos. Really looking forward to your new series that you mentioned. I am in the process of taking over the printing place I work at so any tips and ideas are more than welcome!
Goof to hear! You will do great!
@@justaprinter Thanks a lot. Your videos are a great help. Stumbled upon your channel when our maintenance guy was unavailable and I had to learn how to clean a charge grid. Learned so much since! Seeing how busy you are and what you can achieve in a relatively small shop gives me great confidence that I can make it work as well.
I'm glad that the little kid is ok :)
Me too!
Definitelly I can noticed you love your job. That is very important. Do you think can I print some magazines with you. look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance.
So city Dan junior revealed...🥰🥰🥰.....
Few months ago I got jobs for books scanning and that was a hell of a job. I had faster Xerox's and bizhubs but those glossy pages gave very tough time to finish it. I had to do it in small batches and then reassemble the files....
Oh man, gloss paper is not my favorite! :)
The traditional headbands were less about structure and more about protecting the ends of the signatures. Since they were actually stitched onto the signatures and wouldn't move from their intended position.
I'm sure the glued ones are (or were? For my home made bindings I still put them) because books were supposed to have one and wouldn't look like a proper book without it?
Yes, casebound books without headbands look naked!
@Matias Tonazzi. Back in the last century, one of my student colleagues at The London College of Printing worked for a large binding company where they had various mechanised bookbinding lines. I'm sure he said that one of their machines could apply "dummy" headbands (not sewn on) to the book blocks. The headband material was fed from a roll, glued on to the head and foot of the book blocks, and then cut off to size. The idea was to make a mass produced case bound book appear more expensive. Can't remember the name of the machine line. Could be one of many names - Kolbus, Muller-Martini, VBF-Sigloch? Stay safe and well.
I always scan grayscale and process the result with ScanTailor
Paper shortages in cut sheet and especially in rolls are prevalent across the entire domestic US market. There are US mills auctioning off their available tonnage instead of taking orders from long standing customers. I believe more mills will either be transitioning to packaging or coming offline by the end of the year - better stock up.
What is causing the shortage and what do you see happening the next few years with paper supply?
See my comment above on what I heard is causing the shortages.
@@bergencounty6602 it’s a multitude of issues compounding where we are today. A big factor are mills retooling to satisfy different markets such as packaging, increase in marketing activity from a direct mail standpoint, overseas production had been on strike (Europe) or tonnage stuck in ports due to quarantines (Asia), COVID, difficulty in transiting goods domestically, etc. I don’t think anyone has ever experienced anything quite like this in the past 30 years or more.
I have been stocking up when paper comes available. I'm becoming somewhat of a paper hoarder.
Hey there my brother I am a KONICA MINOLTA copier technician for over 30 years I worked on pretty much all brands and sizes of them me and my buddy used to talk about starting a copier business
That would be fun to start a copier business! Wow, I bet you have seen some things in 30 years of fixing copiers!
@@justaprinter Yeah so if you ever need some advice hit me up I’ve worked on those exact same copiers you mess with tons of times
Well Just A Printer.... I am looking forward to you Printer my soft-cover books..Your knowledge and instructions will get their. Soon . Your little helper is so focus like his dad... Thank you for these videos. Without you there's no us. I sent my email to your email.....
J.R
Awesome, thanks!
Dude is Learning. 👍🏼
Yes!
I hope your printing shop will thrive with life.
Thanks!
@@justaprinter You are welcome!
It's a good thing the customer gives you permission to cut the book. Often times they don't. There are special 'scanners' utilizing a high def camera on a special stand.
There has been a lot of progress in book scanners and the software now is much better than it used to be. There's really no need to cut any book apart to scan it these days. I saw this video on another channel I watch recently reviewing this book scanner, and it looks pretty impressive: ruclips.net/video/__D_icYubDY/видео.html
@@gorak9000 Time and labor cost is certainly a factor, cutting and scanning in through a sheet feeder is much less labor intensive then going page by page with a book scanner.
@@DerpyMail I don't know, looks like a LOT of time went into cutting it and separating the pages. With the book scanner, it's just flip, click, flip, click. You can go pretty fast. That czur place has a video on their channel claiming to be able to scan a 300 page book in 7 minutes - I have no idea if that's a valid claim. Doing a little back of the envelope calculations, that's 150 page flips in 7 minutes (you get 2 pages per flip) - 2.8 seconds per page flip - seems pretty reasonable actually
I have seen these and would love to give it a try. I would also just love to see the quality of the PDF those scanners make.
Mac Paper and Verative are running at 25% availability on all paper stocks. I can’t get any 12pt 14pt 16pt c2s anywhere. Even 4over has cut way down on what they offer. So same as you, I’ve been running a lot more 8.5 x 11 which sucks! My contact at Mac told me the main paper mils in the states had gone out of business during Covid and a shipping container company bought the facilities and are using the pulp to make corrugated boxes for themselves. This leaves asia as a high production mil but they don’t want to ship to western countries because of cost. It makes sense because any paper I find is Sappi/Moorim or Pro Digital. I don’t see this issue getting better any time soon. What blew my mind as well is prices. I just ordered 1,000 12x18 sheets of 100# cover classic crest for $288! It used to be about $80! 😭
Yes, it could be bad for quite awhile. People will have to be ok with printing on 20lb 8.5 x 11
use chain saw or electric circle cutter to cut book bind as small you can. then papers will be same size and separate.
but seperate book cover with hand carefully. then put back after scaning book.
You got it!
@@justaprinter you can also make wood plates to hold book part other than binding part.
And straight the whole book first in wood plates then tight the book with clumps. Then cut with electric cutter.
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Would you need to take a book apart to be able to get a good scan of an art book? There is one page separate from the piece itself with the info about the piece, comments on it, etc., and the other side with the piece itself, but no backs of pages are wasted. The pages are also big, bigger than a novel at least, and glossy. Dimensions are: 9 x 0.9 x 11.88 inches
Unrelated to that but, I want to animate traditionally, and would I need a certain scanner to scan each frame, or is there another type of printer/scanner I would need?
Many thanks.
I should mention that I’m new to printing/scanning things and I don’t do it often. So if any of these questions seem obvious or anything, excuse me for that
Dan, maybe get yourself a small Mimaki uv printer and get into that to help offset your downtime in digital printing. My uv machine has been running daily and helping bring in money because they are custom jobs I can charge a premium price!
I have thought about that. Would be a good addition, maybe some day...
Nice video thanks I like it
You bet!
I assume that OCR is more trouble than it is worth, especially when formatting around photos.
You are correct!
OCR software has had big improvements as time has gone by. Also book scanners where you don't have to cut the book apart have also improved a lot recently. I have no actual experience with this product, but another channel I watch did a review on a large format book scanner recently, and the results look pretty impressive: ruclips.net/video/__D_icYubDY/видео.html. This seems like it's one of the rare kick starter projects that's actually not a scam. Things I'd double check though is if the software is fully self contained, and doesn't have any "cloud" connections, so even if the company disappears eventually, it will continue working - something you have to be careful about in almost every "cloud connected" bs product these days
Ok, being we are both in the brotherhood I gotta ask what was that book. I seen a FD badge on the front, or what looked like it. LOL Glad to see your doing good. We are kinda slow but still keeping things running.
History of Camden NJ Fire Department. They did things differently back then!
which scanner your using for scan pages
you've mentioned a software that is no longer available can you spell its name, please, and thank you for taking the time to make these videos
Software was called ELAN.
JUST A PRINT, What cheap scanner can scan a whole book really fast and scan it into a PC computer into PDF files? do you know which scanner can do this for scanning books?
I use the scanner on the top of my copier. There are good scanners on amazon
@@justaprinter yes but which scanners on amazon can scan books really fast and a lot of pages really fast? most autofeed scanners can't scan books because they are limited to so many pages per scan from the autofeed
Hello my friend. Just a question. Which program do you use for numbering invoices, receipt etc?
I do that in Indesign, I should do a video on that sometime.
@@justaprinter i do it in easy numbering but i should try in indesighn also
Hi Dan, Can you suggest me the best settings to print texture paper in Konica C1060. How to improve quality on texture paper.
I know in command workstation you have a use max density check box. You can also go into the advanced settings of that particular stock and increase the density there as well.
Thank you, I already did this but not any significant difference.
I have found that printing on textured paper is hit or miss. But overall textured paper is not the best to print on.
I have a Konica C1060 that has a scanner I'd like to use. Can you tell me how to connect it to my computer? Thx!
Download the driver available here (www.btapac.konicaminolta.com/utilities/index.html), the TWAIN driver. Real Time Mode gives you more feedback, HDD mode allows you to scan more than one set and then retrieve it. You'll probably need the machine's IP address and some sort of scanning software (full version of Adobe Acrobat for example).
@@jacobrodgers7743 Thank you Sir!
What he said. :)
Using babies for more views now. What's in the next episode, take your cute kittens to work day? haha. I wish more older books were digitized and made available...comic books too. There's a few "been out of print for a while" books that I can't even find anymore that I used to love reading.
If you need cut sheet paper I have a ton of it. Maybe 100k to 200k sheets left, letter, legal, ledger, 20-28lb. I've already given about as much to some local charities and they said they can't take anymore lol. I sadly don't have much use for it these days. LMK.
Good to know about the paper. So far I have been surviving. And yes, next video I'll have to grab some of the kittens from around here!
I have a question, what happens with papers that are inseparable when scanning, the printer picks two sheets instead of one and also straightening scanned book when they look slanted? And How do you charge for this.
In my case, before scanning make sure each page have some air between. There also some setting for paper weight in scanner. Cleaning/replace roller also help.
Yes, fanning the papers before hand is great. But and skew that happens during scanning can be fixed on the computer later.
@@justaprinter Thanks for your response. How do you fix the skew on the computer?
@@ijalalfa3233 thanks for this, especially the cleaning part.
@@arnoldkd1 I fix it with Elan software. You can also use adobe acrobat pro. Others that exist are pixedit.
My supplier told me they will not have coated stock until 2024
Thats a bummer, I'm about out of my coated text weight.
@@justaprinter I am down to my last 3000 sheets of 80lb text and I haven’t had 100lb text since November… this is scary 😟
Pure vandalism, there's no excuse.
I lost a lot of sleep that night.....
Hey Dan! I have something amazing to share with you. In a questionnaire taken by Printweek, I praised you and your work. They have printed the same in the magazine and i would be very happy if i could show you the article. Kindly share your email if its ok for you, i will send you the article.
Awesome! Email me at justaprinterman@gmail.com Thanks!