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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: can layout template be modified to work with this business card cutter?

« on: December 08, 2011, 02:32 PM »

any update?

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: other softwares

« on: December 01, 2011, 06:40 PM »

there are various companies trying to sell it to the tune of $1000 and up. I've never seen a free one like Mouser's  :Thmbsup:though or even one that is below $100.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Flipbook 1PC Front/Back Cover Template

« on: December 01, 2011, 06:36 PM »

well the spine will vary depending on how many pages you have in your flip book and how thick the paper is.
The easiest way to design it would be in www.lumapix.com fotofusion, or any other layout program like adobe photoshop.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: cutter

« on: December 01, 2011, 06:34 PM »

it is shown at the 1:02 mark in the video
it is a martin yale
http://www.google.co...&ved=0CHkQ8wIwAQ
$1300 new about half that used.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Cameras

« on: December 01, 2011, 10:55 AM »

you can use a 8 frames per second camera like the canon 1dMark II
shoot small jpegs.

there may be some small point and shoot cameras that shoot that fast as well.

it will be better than web camera since if you have good lighting you can adjust shutter speed to there are no blurry frames.

too many web cams make blurry photos, very bad quality IMHO.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: can layout template be modified to work with this business card cutter?

« on: December 01, 2011, 10:53 AM »

thank you!!!!

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: can layout template be modified to work with this business card cutter?

« on: December 01, 2011, 08:20 AM »

Yes that is right, just like the video link above shows: A piece of paper in put into the printer and it splits it in half and makes two stacks of business cards. It doesn't require double feed like the Martin yale does

This is different than the martin yale cutters that first split the paper in half and then you have to re-fed it to split it into 4 stacks that are then put together. Currently it seems your software would only work with the Martin Yale. see link http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=CYAfCM0NtJk

HOWEVER JUST TO BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR HERE IS WHAT FOUR PAGES WOULD LOOK LIKE:
PAGE1
1   21
2   22
3   23
4   24
5   25
PAGE2
6   26
7   27
8   28
9   29
10   30
PAGE3
11   31
12   32
13   33
14   34
15   35
PAGE4
16   36
17   37
18   38
19   39
20   40

Software would take total number of images and divide it by 2
first half creates left hand columns of images
second half creates right hand columns of images.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: can layout template be modified to work with this business card cutter?

« on: November 30, 2011, 09:24 PM »

[Select]

first page looks like this for STACKED& DOWN AND ACROSS:
1    11
3    13
5    15
7    17
9    19


2ND page looks like this:
2    12
4    14
6    16
8    18
10   20

RESULT IF YOU JUST FEED TWO SHEETS THROUGH AND STACK THE RESULTS:
1
3
5
7
9
2
4
6
8
10
11
13
15
17
19
12
14
16
18
20

Only way I can think that this would work is if you somehow taped the two sheets together and it was tough enough to punch/cut out two sheets at at time.

first page looks like this UNSTACKED DOWN AND ACROSS
1    6
2    7
3    8
4    9
5    10


2ND PAGE LIKE THIS  UNSTACKED DOWN AND ACROSS
11    16
12    17
13    18
14    19
15    20


IT DOESN'T WORK EITHER.

Maybe I'm missing something but different card cutters stack differently and I can't figgure out how to get the software to work with this one.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / can layout template be modified to work with this business card cutter?

« on: November 30, 2011, 11:19 AM »

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=KBDA4Af4k3g

I have access to the above business card cutter from a friend that runs a print shop.

THEN CHOOSE THESE OPTIONS:
UNCHECK STACK PRINTING
CHECK DOWN THEN ACROSS

Workflow is as follows: Feed first sheet
take left hand stack and place on top of right hand stack
repeat for 2nd, 3rd, 4th sheets..etc.

Is this the most efficient way to utilize this business card cutter? I really can't afford to go out and buy a fancier cutter because it's just for a church event. I"ve seen cutters that commercial people use that seem faster but they have more print out put trays.

Ideally I'd like the software to arrange photos so that after feeding in multiple sheets I just take the left hand stack and move it on top of the right hand stack and staple it.

My work flow now requires that one page at a time be fed and then stacked.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« on: November 29, 2011, 07:43 AM »

These are dye sub printers, they use rolls of paper (not sheets). There are NO trays.
Auto rotating is a driver feature and ALMOST all dye subs do not have that feature.

The issue is the software shows it printing in the correct orientation and it prints the opposite way.

I may try to trouble shoot it again, but after wasting most of the day yesterday will probably not.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« on: November 28, 2011, 02:21 PM »

Tried two more printers the DNP Ds80 dye sub, This 8x10 printer doesn't even print. Jobs spool to it and then they are erased from the print que.

Next tried the HP Office Jet 8500 inkjet printer.
worked fine using 8.5x11" paper.

After spending several hours testing various printers, my opinion is either I'm missing something obvious or this software can only be used with standard letter sized paper.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« on: November 28, 2011, 12:14 PM »

Just tried sony updr200 dye sub printer, has the same issue as the hitpl510
preview in landscape shows up fine, but when printed it prints in opposite orientation.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« on: November 28, 2011, 11:53 AM »

Just tried using a HitiPL510 dye sub printer. It kinda worked. I had wanted to print a 2x3 grid layout on a landscape 4x6 sheet of paper. Set the flip book software to landscape as well as the printer default preferences, and although the preview looked great, the printer printed it out the opposite orientation creating a big white block and cutting off the images.

Are there some obvious steps I'm missing somewhere? I'm surprised printing on different sizes of paper other than Letter has never been an issue before.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« on: November 28, 2011, 11:13 AM »

sorry I already did that on both PC's. I'm going to test with a different printer in a few minutes.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« on: November 28, 2011, 10:37 AM »

I just tried actually printing it to the Kodak 605 dye sub printer I have and it will begin spooling to the printer, but never finish about 3mb out of 16. After about 2 or 3 minutes the WinXP PC gives me an error that the print job has failed. I have installed on two different PC's with the same results.

To answer your question, PDF file properties also show 8.5x11 page size with the images taking up a 6x8 in size.
I supposed I could write a photoshop batch action to correct this, but hopefully not.
There is a 3" white space on the bottom and a 2.5" white space to the right.

Has anyone gotten this software to work on a paper size other than standard letter paper?

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« on: November 28, 2011, 08:13 AM »

Thanks Stoic Joker for the reply.

Actually the PDF printer application and the JPEG printer application both allow a lot of different paper sizes through the virtual printer driver. Download them for free and try it out yourself.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: How do I change the paper printing size?

« on: November 28, 2011, 07:03 AM »

Thanks I really appreciate the program and free support. I'm probably going to wind up using a 8x10 or 6x8 dye sub printer so being able to change the paper size to something other than 8.5x11 is crucial.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / How do I change the paper printing size?

« on: November 26, 2011, 01:58 PM »

I am trying to print the files to output as jpegs that are saved to my hard drive.
I am using this virtual printer
http://www.zan1011.com/

I have followed the directions on their web site to make a custom paper size
http://www.zan1011.com/paper.htm

However everytime I try to print out, the files are sized as 8.5x11 files.

I even tried another virtual program called PDF creator and have the same issue.

I want to do this so I can add a website where people can either view or download the images for a church christmas day party.

Under cardstock tab I have selected CUSTOM and put in size of 6x8 paper
I have also changed number of rows from default of 5 to 4 and size from 2x3.5 to 2x3"
Under the Print Tab I have clicked on the SET UP printer Button in lower right hand corner and gone through the printer setting to choose the 6sx8 paper size I want.

None the less when I open any of the saved jpeg files in photoshop they are formatted as 8.5x11" paper.

Thanks for any help with this.