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Easy Calendar Printing with the Sharp Pro Series

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Printing and finishing a full-bleed calendar has never been easier! In this video, Sharp Senior Product Manager Kent Villarreal will walk you through the process from start to finish. 

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Kent J. Villarreal (Senior Product Manager):

Hey Kent here from Sharp Electronics, and today we're gonna show you how easy it can be to print this beautiful calendar on a Sharp Pro Series.

Kent J. Villarreal stands in front of an MFP. He holds up a calendar.

First, of course you need paper. With Sharp's edge to edge printing capability, you don't need 12 by 18. You can use the off the shelf 11 by 17 paper to print these beautiful calendars and get the full bleed look that you want.

Two printed pages are laid side by side. On 12 by 18 page, the image of the car does not reach the end of the page and there is a ½ inch margin. On the 11 by 17 page, the image goes to the end of the page.

Now, we need to load the 11 by 17 paper in the triple air feed system. First you open the drawer, make sure the guides are set. You got 11" here. These are already set. And here is 17. Gonna lock that in. Again, the triple air feed system uses vacuum feed as well as air separation to precisely feed the paper into the machine and print these booklets.

He holds a stack of 11 by 17 paper, opens the first paper drawer and places the stack in horizontally. He grabs the guide mechanism on the right and uses it to align the paper. The tray slides down and he points at the measuring device next to the stack of paper. He presses the green button on the guide mechanism.

Let's set up the job on Sharp's award winning display. First you go in the tray settings and make sure you have the paper selected in the engine catalog. We already have it in here.

There is a close up on the MFP display. He selects “Tray Settings/Paper Settings”. The Tray Settings tab pops up and he selects the 11 by 17 tray, option 5, under the Large Capacity Tray category.

We got the 100 pound text, which is perfect for this job. And with one click you get right into the Fiery command workstation interface which has all the capabilities. And with this swing out keyboard and touch pad or with the touch of a finger, we can get in and we can change the settings here.

A new tab appears and he scrolls down and selects “Futura 100lb”. He clicks OK for the open tabs to close them. On the right of the screen he selects the fiery command work station icon which brings him to a page with all the print jobs. He pulls out a keyboard on the MFP.

We have a preset set up already that I've created. It has all the settings in there. Now all we have to do is press print.

He clicks the “Sharp_2022-Calendar_V3.pdf” print job and switches the presets to “2022_Calendar”. He points to the print button at the bottom of the pop up.

We have the Plockmatic production booklet finisher here and we're just going to finish this offline, going to go ahead and feed it in. And that's how easily you can print a full bleed calendar on the Sharp Pro series.

Calendar pages are printed and are stacked together on the print tray. He rests his hand on a machine next to the printer and feeds the calendar pages into the machine. Perfectly folded and stapled calendars are produced.

We have the Plockmatic production booklet finisher here and we're just going to finish this offline, going to go ahead and feed it in. And that's how easily you can print a full bleed calendar on the Sharp Pro series.

Calendar pages are printed and are stacked together on the print tray. He rests his hand on a machine next to the printer and feeds the calendar pages into the machine. Perfectly folded and stapled calendars are produced.

Whether you're using the full configuration, like we showed you here today with the production booklet finisher or you're using a smaller version of the Pro series, we still have the capability to print these beautiful full bleed calendars. For more information, contact your Sharp Professional today.

Kent J. Villarreal holds up a completed calendar. A picture of the full configuration pops up onto the screen and then a picture of a smaller version is shown.