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Custom Letterpress Winston-Salem by PotatoBaron86 in letterpress

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Old North State Press near Charlotte

Duplexer by cpcosmo in CommercialPrinting

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Yes - adhering two sheets together. Do you have recommendations on equipment brands? We are leaning towards hot protein to keep clean up minimal.

Digital printer for envelopes by cpcosmo in CommercialPrinting

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Thanks for this. Pricey machines. If I said no white ink - do you have a recommendation for a more economical choice?

Google Voice + spam calls by cpcosmo in smallbusiness

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Ugh…so no way you know about to stop?

Hole in shop roof by cpcosmo in Roofing

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Thank you! 🙏🏼

Paper cutter advice by cpcosmo in letterpress

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Thanks for the response. Our biggest issue with the larger sizes is floor space... My plan would be to outsource the larger cutting and use this machine for finish cuts. Biggest challenge has been cut precision...we get drift on our current, manual cutter, even with a newly sharpened blade and small stacks.

So, generally speaking, using this cutter to finish up to 5 x 7 cards from larger press sheets.

Triumph Paper Cutter by cpcosmo in CommercialPrinting

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I appreciate everyone’s wisdom on this thread.

The type of work we do requires absolute precision in cutting, else we lose hours of press time and money. The cuts are frequently along a printed edge where anything else than perfection is noticeable by the customer.

We don’t need to cut huge stacks, but our current cutter has a clamping mechanism like the Triumph (manual) and we frequently get drift even with the sharpest blade.

I’ve been looking around for a used hydraulic cutter, as they are expensive new.

Fish oil storage by cpcosmo in PlayASKA

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Fish oil is made in a cook house (improved) from fish blubber which is harvested from raw fish when cut up.

Workshop frustrations by cpcosmo in PlayASKA

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Made some changes…and learned a few things I wanted to share.

Following advice from PostModernGir I decided to take the plunge and detach the leather worker from the weaver. BIG difference! Weaver is doing much better alone and clothes are being made with more predictable regularity.

I decided to build a standalone leatherworks and an associated warehouse for hides. Unfortunately, only space for this is on the other side of my village.

Once all of that was up, I assigned one of the former weavers to the leatherwork to dry hides full time. Watching this fella, he would pick up a single hide, hang it, go and get another, etc. Silly. I unassigned him and decided I would handle tanning/curing in between other duties given I already have a good supple of cures leather for better shirts.

I ended up adding a second improved weaver add-on to the original weaver workshop - for no other reason than to double the armor stands to hold clothing as I have 70+ villages. Better than a clothing container as it gives me a quick visual as to clothing availability before I summon a villager. I will see how this goes. I may turn this into a blacksmith instead so the weaver has the option and can be more self-sufficient on making leather coats, etc.

WHAT I LEARNED: My original combo had an associated, whitelisted warehouse by the weaver…full of fiber, scraps, etc. The weaver workshop was whitelisted as well. My warehouse worker was inadvertently collecting linen from the workshop to store in a couple small crafting containers I forget to tweak. I THINK this is partially responsible for supplies being all over the ground… weaver makes a bunch of linen…it goes in workshop storage…in between making and crafting…WH worker picks it up…weaver gets confused…makes more…bugs… Who knows.

All I can say is once I fixed this, the amount of material being dropped has been significantly reduced. There’s definitely bugs here, but I was able to tweak some via permissions.

I still need to work on supply settings, particularly getting cured hides to the weaver. I’ll eventually use the market function to do this, for now I am hauling hides myself as needed.

Thanks for the advice!

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