Recent content by Jeff

For what it's worth, I've usually found 3-years to the timeframe for ideal performance. At the end of the 5-year leases (which I do to get better value) I have more issues in general. The one machine I bought out at the end of the lease for $6,000 ended up sitting mostly idle because there...

Interesting -- thank you!

Hope your portfolio went well. I remember having a similar experience many many moons ago looking for good two sided inkjet paper at local sources and finding it difficult to source. Did you settle on something good? Red River has one option...

I've printed hundreds of posters for windows and not had any problem with fading from either xerox or canon toners, some of which have been up for years. Inkjet dye ink has faded on me in short order (months); pigment ink wold be what you would want to look for if going that way. I think laser...

Since no one else has replied yet, I'll share my two cents: Moving to a machine such as a J75 (which we looked at seriously) or the similar size KM would definitely streamline your workflow reducing a lot of the tasks to keep things queued and running. On one hand I liked having multiple...

Curious if you settled on a machine. The Xante/OKI were interesting to me for both the envelope feeder and the print length option (in our case to do dust jackets and posters.) A machine that fills both niches that my xerox doesn't. However, price per print was too high to make that really work...

A few questions might help: How many pages in each yearbook? How many yearbooks total? How heavy do you want the cover stock? What ballpark budget do you have? (i.e. it can be done with a $1500 hand bookletmaker and manual work if you have to, or it can be done with a $25000...

It's probably not the fusing, but if you have spare fuser anyway it doesn't hurt anything to swap to eliminate possibilities as that's very quick. As a stab in the dark I think it could be the 2nd BTR assembly which is a unit that is below the transfer belt assembly only because we had an odd...

The way I troubleshoot print quality issues is to try and zero in on what could cause it by first determining whether it impacts all colors CMYK or just one color C M Y or K. When it affects all colors then you can sometimes see if the defect is in the fusing to the paper or the image...

Hopefully someone with more knowledge of the 700 will step in and give you some guidance... From other xerox docucolor machines, for that type of process direction streak once the yellow drum was ruled out I would look to the yellow developer assembly.

Assuming it's in the print direction, my first guess would be yellow drum or developer housing. Try swapping the yellow drum as that is the fastest thing to check.

I would have expected it was either the cyan drum or the developer assembly. I'd put in a new cyan drum or I'd swap the cyan and yellow drums and run that way for a few hundred sheets. If that didn't work, I'd try swapping the cyan developer assembly with either the magenta or yellow for a...

Check the yellow developer assembly and see if the roller is evenly coated and doesn't have a clump stuck. To test, I have swapped the yellow and magenta developer assembly as a test by temporarily carefully taping the toner inlet and running 3-5 prints. (Don't run too many this way or it could...

The post office automated sorting will often put wheel marks on laser printed postcards where you'll see white marks where the toner has been ripped off the paper by the sorting wheels. Offset has an advantage in this regard. Ideally you want a printer that can feed cover stock well and this in...

I actually never had to buy them -- when I got my cutter I got a box of spare bulbs with it and never had to buy bulbs - only went through a few. You should be able to google a source for them though.