maurits
10-16-2008, 06:21 PM
Hi all
I am not a printer tech, but a prospect. Looking at bizhub C203 (opposing a Aficio MPC2000) with a specific question: When looking through the C203 brochure it mentions for both paper size and duplexing A6-A3 full bleed.
Looking up 'bleed' I learn it is an extra margin used by (offset)printers to move paper, later cutting off this margin. When I look up that term 'full bleed' I get this:
Full bleed is printing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing) from one edge of the paper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper) to the other without the standard borders by which most personal printers are limited. This is useful for printing brochures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brochures), posters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posters), and other marketing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing) materials. Often the paper is trimmed after printing to ensure the ink runs fully to the edge and does not stop short of it.So no I am confused. Is C203 with full bleed printing edge to edge, or does it simply mean you can feed through slightly bigger than A3 (what Ricoh calls A3+) and then cut to size later?
I know edge printing is not nice, I was told it makes the printer very messy inside when doing this often (making your job dirty) but can the C203 do it or not?
Please advise
Thanks
I am not a printer tech, but a prospect. Looking at bizhub C203 (opposing a Aficio MPC2000) with a specific question: When looking through the C203 brochure it mentions for both paper size and duplexing A6-A3 full bleed.
Looking up 'bleed' I learn it is an extra margin used by (offset)printers to move paper, later cutting off this margin. When I look up that term 'full bleed' I get this:
Full bleed is printing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing) from one edge of the paper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper) to the other without the standard borders by which most personal printers are limited. This is useful for printing brochures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brochures), posters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posters), and other marketing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing) materials. Often the paper is trimmed after printing to ensure the ink runs fully to the edge and does not stop short of it.So no I am confused. Is C203 with full bleed printing edge to edge, or does it simply mean you can feed through slightly bigger than A3 (what Ricoh calls A3+) and then cut to size later?
I know edge printing is not nice, I was told it makes the printer very messy inside when doing this often (making your job dirty) but can the C203 do it or not?
Please advise
Thanks