Thread: want to start print shop, what equipment for start ?

To get started you would need a digital press, cutter,folder,stitcher and pallet jacks and a very large line of credit. I would just broker it out youll make more profit and have less risk. Good Luck!

You need a lot equipments such as digital duplicator, paper cutter,Binding machine,fold machine and so on.

But you can look through our website: www.nbrdc.com
Our company specilized make the office equipments. Hope it can give you helps

Gary

Thnx for reply. I would like to know if its good idea to start with a old offset machine like ryobi or heidelberg, but I dont know anything about them, any ideas where to start ?

Originally Posted by garyrdc

You need a lot equipments such as digital duplicator, paper cutter,Binding machine,fold machine and so on.

But you can look through our website: www.nbrdc.com
Our company specilized make the office equipments. Hope it can give you helps

Gary

Hi Gary,

can You send me price list for your products ? Also i see only 220V / 50hz, so do you make 110V / 60hz units as well ?

We have the price list , can you tell me your email ? or MSN

can you tell me which country are you in ?

Gary

But you have to be smart when it comes to choosing a printing equipments. Don't buy from the first company you can find. Look for two or more companies and compare their prices and products. Also, read the testimonials and reviews - these will make you see which one can give you the best results at the best prices.

Agreed with mariewilliam.

Take your time to study the machinery you require, look at the Used machinery market.

If you're a printing beginner, you're best off hiring a certified and experienced freelance technician to consult you on the right equipment for your budget. May cost you a pretty penny to get a quality opinion, but it's well worth it. Freelance technicians often have a network of other technicians, so finding personnel to install and run your machinery would also be a much easier undertaking.

In any case, what overall budget do you have in mind for your business?

Cheers

PS: I know a German freelance technician who mostly works as a surveyor for the German government. If you want his details, drop me a line via PM and I'll send them to you.

Hi, here's my thoughts ...

If you want to go offset litho then there a really only two options I would suggest and these depend on the type of work you do.

If you want to produce high-quality offset printing in one or two colours for flyers, posters, business stationery etc. then you would do well to consider a Heidelberg GTO or PM46-2. Both are very capable presses and are made by the company who it is widely agreed make the best printing presses on the market.

OR

If you want to produce full-colour (CMYK) work but with possibly more technical constraints (although still very capable), you could do worse than consider a Ryobi 3302 (2-colour portrain press) or the 3304 (the 4-colour version) ... the ryobi may be better suited to working alongside digital machines as the paper will feed and therefore register on the same axes as a digital machine, which would be useful if your work requires a combination of both technologies and close register.

In my experience, if you ask a Ryobi operator to tell you what they can produce on their press press, they will give you a long and impressive list of specific types of job it will do ... "Flyers, posters, booklets, NCR, ...." however if you ask a GTO operator the same question, you'll get a one-word answer; "Anything."

The only drawback with the GTO is that it's not as quick as the Ryobi to setup or run. And, like-for-like, the GTO would cost more to buy.

Either way, the other main pieces of machinery has to be a guillotine and some form of making plates. Guillotine will need to be at least 52cm, preferable 72cm wide so that you can accept and cut whatever paper is on offer from the paper merchants and get the best price. As for plates, I'd suggest a poly-platesetter (such as the Esko DPX) as these reduce the required skill levels and time needed to produce top-quality work.

All other equipment is secondary and you won't know exactly what you need until you've started doing it. Numbering, perforating, collating, booklet-making, binding, laminating machinery etc. is all stuff that most print shops tend to hate buying because it sits idle for 11 months a year and will cost more than the core printing equipment to buy. Spend the money on a smart van instead with your name on the side (which will help grow the business) and wait until you really can't cope without the finishing machinery.

You should start by purchasing the work from a reliable source and such as my shop and ask them to sit in on some runs so you can see what is involved. If it were me in your shoes I would let the print shop do the work and have the expense and aggravation. Just be a Broker for the work. Collect the money have the shop do the work.