Does Anybody Else Print on a Kinko’s Copy Machine?

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i_am_jim
Jul 2, 2007
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Periodically I have to print 11×17 posters on a Kinko’s color copy machine. I’ve never come up with a way to get the colors right. They swear to me they calibrate the printers every morning. I get there soon afterward but the colors are never right. I have to makes trips back and forth home to tweak it until it’s right and then print them. If more are called for later I have to do all this again, because they won’t be the same when I come back.
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 2, 2007
The only way to get it absolutely right would be if you could get hold of a copy of their profile. That said, most printers these days approximate sRGB, so make sure you convert to that profile before saving the version of your file for printing.
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Scott_Koblich
Jul 2, 2007
Kinko’s uses the Konika BizHubPro c500. We have had one of these for over a year now and the consistancy of color is poor. Whether its calibrated or if you are using a particular profile. That’s just been my experience.
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Bernie
Jul 2, 2007
That’s just been my experience.

Same here.

I’ve seen colour copiers go off-calibration on a run of 50 copies. While others are amazingly stable.

I would try another provider until you find someone with a decent machine.
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i_am_jim
Jul 3, 2007
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:54:50 -0700,
wrote:

Kinko’s uses the Konika BizHubPro c500.

Last time I did this our local Kinko’s was using a Xerox color copier.

Several years ago a local copy shop had a Tektronics Phaser color laser printer that was absolutely grand for making these posters. The colors were spot on and completely consistent. I could return a month later and get the same great color. Since Xerox bought this line of printers I never see them locally anymore.
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i_am_jim
Jul 3, 2007
Does anyone have a way to print 11×17 color prints with good color in quantities of 100 for $3 each or less?
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Scott_Koblich
Jul 3, 2007
According to our Konica sales reps (about 2 years ago), when FedEx took over Kinko’s they bought the BizHub Pro for all there shops(at the ones here on the East coast.

I do remember Kinko’s having the Xerox Docucolor 12 machines though prior to that.
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i_am_jim
Jul 3, 2007
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 05:21:29 -0700,
wrote:

I do remember Kinko’s having the Xerox Docucolor 12 machines though prior to that.

That’s it. That’s the machine they had when I last did this, but that’s been less than a year ago and I thought the buy out was longer ago than that.
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Scott_Koblich
Jul 3, 2007
Beats me. The salesman was probably full of crap. I can however verify that our local Kinko’s does have the Konica now.

I never used the Doc12 so I can’t say how well those work, but, prior to the Konica we had a Xerox Doc40 and the consistancy of color output was poor as well!
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Jul 3, 2007
i_am_jim, www.ezprints.com prints single 11x14s for $3.45; not sure about their quantity discounts, but it’s likely to be close if not in your range.
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Ho
Jul 5, 2007
I was dragged out of the house by my wife the other day, and while killing some time I stopped by a Kinko’s to have a file on my USB key output so I could proofread it. I didn’t care about the color and didn’t pay any attention to the machine they used. The colors were very good, however. The doc was a CMYK PDF with an embedded sheetfeed profile.

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