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Meet Our New Friend

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Recently, we installed a Xerox Docucolor 5000AP as a significant upgrade to our digital color printing capabilities. It joins our stable of best-in-class digital- and traditional-print workhorses. 

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From the Xerox website: 

  • Prints at the full rated speed of 50 ppm (8.5" x 11" or A4) on all types and weights of media
  • Auto-duplexes up to 110 lb. cover (300 gsm)
  • Two print modes to match your needs:
    • All Weights Mode runs at the full 50 ppm regardless of media weight
    • Mixed Weight Mode optimizes throughput speed for jobs with up to four different stocks
  • Exceptional image quality produces smooth color sweeps, high resolution photographs and crisp, clean text
  • Wide media latitude, including heavy-weight, coated stocks, and specialty media substrates – feed all weights, sizes, and types from all trays

What the specs don't say is how incredible the prints from this thing look. With 2,400 x 2,400 DPI resolution and (so far) perfect front-to-back registration, the 7 or 8 customer jobs we've run on it today are definitely amazing, giving us a glimpse of what this machine is capable of doing. We're excited!

How to Pull a Bleed

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Part 1

Perhaps at some point you've had your printing company send back your artwork, telling you they need the "bleeds pulled" before they can print the piece. Perhaps you scratched your head a bit at how to do that, or did a bunch of Google searches and came up with all sorts of answers. Hopefully, however, your experience with "pulling bleeds" didn't leave you bloodied.

Bleed Defined

Simply put, a bleed is printing that goes to the edge of the sheet after trimming. (This and many more printing terms are defined at our Glossary page.)

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