Thanks, @deeelling, @lauritaylor, @brianallen, and @kseniya for your responses. It’s always interesting to hear solutions to this age-old problem.

Rules of thumb are very interesting and thank you for sharing them. As Kseniya described, I suspect many printers rely on less mathematical methods such as intuition. For instance, if a certain job…[Read more]

I generally rely on experience on judging how much overage we need. The more complicated the job, or the tighter the registration, obviously the more waste there’ll be. Of course that goes without saying, but I’m lucky in that it’s not a big deal (usually, unless I’ve finished two runs and discover the press has been pulling doubles the whole…[Read more]

You can get a round die made and make you own really easily. I bought Katz coasters first too, but the paper is not great.