How I Network My Business and Year End Head Scratching at Numbers

Tallying up numbers for the end of the year. Remember that knowledge is power and the more information you have, the better decisions you can make. A little story time with how I started networking when I was a kid and slowly added to the network infrastructure over the years to support more users and capabilities. I currently use the Unifi Dream Machine Pro along with their access points and cameras. Works well for me.

[@markmiwurdz202]

@Just A Printer. Happy New Year Dan! All the very best for 2022 to you and your family. Thank you for all of the videos on your print shop with all of the trials and tribulations of owning a business. Plus the hands - on advice and benefits of your experience. Onwards and upwards sir! You and yours stay safe and well.

[@justaprinter]

Thank you Mark!

[@FA-qv3bs]

Thanks for an amazing year of amazing content!

[@justaprinter]

Glad you liked it!

[@ileskovar]

Great job Dan, and happy New Year. 😃

[@justaprinter]

Same to you!

[@mikayahouwabo]

Hi Dan. Thank you for the sharing, it is so helpful. Happy new year.

[@justaprinter]

Happy new year!

[@andieplans4719]

Happy new year thanks for all the vids 🌟🙌🥂

[@justaprinter]

Same to you!

[@Tiagocantona]

Thanks for sharing Knowledge. greetings from Brazil!

[@justaprinter]

I'm happy to!

[@ctecrwp]

Dan....welcome to the new year....a nice video....being a professional is good but being technical is great and that's what you are.....✋

[@justaprinter]

Happy new year! Thanks!

[@RobbieDigglers3rdEye]

Congrats on the increase in business during these trying times! We recently bought up a small print shop and doubled our production. We need more space! Our flatbed UV printer has been running more too. I’m optimistic about 2022. Keep grinding brotha!

[@justaprinter]

That is awesome! Good for you guys!

[@fredrikholmqvist2623]

Nice... happy new year from Sweden!

[@justaprinter]

Same to you!

[@khalidmahmood5172]

Happy new year, I really like your machine room set up, I have print shop in manchester U.K.

[@justaprinter]

Same to you! Thank you!

[@mzqyzshray8119]

happy new year! dan

[@justaprinter]

Thanks! Same to you!

[@leonardo29098]

blessing bro. i aim to be at your level. slowly but surely

[@justaprinter]

You got this!

[@Daniel243530]

I love your channel...

[@justaprinter]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@miketheprintman]

Happy New Year!

[@justaprinter]

Same to you!

[@Edwin7397]

For someone whos is not a professional IT person you are doing Great. I am an IT Engineer and i know unifi can be tricky so well done.

[@justaprinter]

Thank you!

[@laurengearhart9947]

Yes! Click totals! Why is that so satisfying? Haha. Happy new year! Here's to a few more million clicks 🎉

[@justaprinter]

It really is fun analyzing numbers!

[@realmadrid1417]

First of all, happy new year from Austria. in about 10 days we are getting a Horizon BQ-480 biding machine with a HT-80 3 side trimmer and a laminator, a Wire O Bind 3500 with a automatic punch system. Pretty excited about all this new things - it's a first for me (us). Networking is a bit different for me .. we (our company) are exclusiv printers for the Austrian Railway (ÖBB) and a renting a building on there property, they don't allow us to use our "own" internet, so we have to use their's with a lot of restrictions (No access to any router, can't give out IPs and so on) For Storage i Build a TrueNAS System, Ryzen based with a lot of Storage .. this free OS is best for Network Shares.

[@justaprinter]

WOW! Thats a lot of cool new toys! Have fun!

[@empire1enterprise437]

Happy new year senior

[@justaprinter]

You too!!

[@Jorbaer1]

Hello to you. Good to see your printing. You will be seen here in Denmark. I push a little myself at home. Peter.

[@justaprinter]

Awesome! Thanks for watching!

[@michaelduke4500]

Keep your network simple but scalable. As for the "click" counts, face it Dan, you're a closeted bean counter......LOL, Happy New Year!!!

[@justaprinter]

HAHAHA, that made me laugh. Happy New Year to you too!

[@mrwonk]

Your backup solution could use an upgrade-on-a-budget. I'd suggest getting a couple of large capacity external hard drives and periodically swapping them out (maybe once a week or so). Make full copies of everything on your NAS and keep it in a separate location. This helps both with disaster as well as with crypto-ransom attacks.

[@justaprinter]

Good idea. I do already do weekly backups off-site. But the more backups the better.

[@NikolasKarampelas]

Hello and Happy New Year! What is the macmini for at the rack? The whole setup seems cool, I also had made the network myself, although it is a much smaller one with just an unmanaged 8port switch with the router to provide internet, a printer and 3 computers and also an old router that have guest wifi capabilities (limited bandwidth, no access to anything on our LAN). Kind of complicated for no reason because my ISP doesn't like the router with guest wifi and I had to use their own crappy one to get internet and the old as an access point for my clients.

[@justaprinter]

I forgot to mention that. I used that machine as a temporary store of files while transferring between some computers. I don't use it anymore, just sitting there for now.

[@titocalvo5929]

Happy New Year!!! Thank you, your channel is very helpful. Need some help please. I can not find any replacement parts for my Konica Minoltas. In specific i need a new Intermediate Transfer Assembly for KM c1100. Thank you

[@justaprinter]

Parts are supplies are hard to find right now. Ebay and google searches is how I find them.

[@HenryLoenwind]

Unifi seems to be back ordered every time I decide to buy something. I just had decided to upgrade a couple of unmanaged switches for Christmas but just now they are replacing those 8- and 16-port ones with new models---which means no stock everywhere (unless you want to spend 3x for the old ones on ebay).

[@justaprinter]

I know! Its crazy what people are selling the stuff for on Ebay!

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

unifi sux

[@ryananthony4840]

My Mac Performa 460 is still in the closet at my mom's lol, just saw it a couple weeks ago.... I paid $2400 for it and a 300 DPI laser printer in 1994 the year after I graduated

[@justaprinter]

Classic! I kind of wish we kept our old computers. I can already hear the sounds they made.

[@aidenh.1506]

Nice video! So you said that you could access the network from anywhere in the world, can you access the nas as well from anywhere?

[@justaprinter]

Yes, the synology NAS has a cool feature where you can sign into it from anywhere. Very handy. I cannot do that on the netgear NAS, or at least I have not looked into it. Synology has really cool apps!

[@GreatGraphicsPhotoscan1989]

In the early 90s we used optical drives to move files between computers... Then Zip Drives.

[@justaprinter]

Oh yes! Zip drives, we had them too!

[@karimkhafaga361]

Hi Dan.. Happy new year and Thank you, your channel is very helpful i have aproplem in konica c1060L The first copy is very good , after 30 copies, the yellow color increases by a small percentage, and after 50 copies, the degree of yellow color is high and continues to do so..Is there a solution to that?

[@justaprinter]

Check developer unit life and replace if it is over 150%

[@zijinzhang20]

I just connected my first floor shop and second floor apartment of another building using fiber optic

[@justaprinter]

Nice! The dream machine was my first introduction to fiber optics. It was fun!

[@socsimplified]

I use remote Trade printer for my work, they have konica ani xerox production printers. But sometimes I receive faint printouts. What should i suggest them?

[@justaprinter]

They need to calibrate or just do their regular maintenance.

[@mancraftgraphics3049]

Are you running static IP's on all your endpoint machines / printers? I finally did that to stop having to go tell a few of the machines to update when they got new leases.

[@justaprinter]

Yes, I do use static IP's on my printers. Forgot to mention that.

[@mancraftgraphics3049]

@@justaprinter Might be a good topic, If I don't get to it first. :D

[@mancraftgraphics3049]

And to be clear, I would love to see how you set this on the Konica Print Engines.

[@HenryLoenwind]

BTW, I switched over to pseudo-fixed addresses, i.e. the dhcp server is configured to always assign the same address but the machine itself still does dhcp queries. For me that works just as well but still allows me to change stuff without having to re-configure each and every machine.

[@mancraftgraphics3049]

@@justaprinter I had to recently do this again in my new storefront to keep me from running around like a decapitated chicken in my new building.

[@rickfullerton694]

One thing a I don't like about my Konica 7030 is when the machine is on stand by and a customer comes in for a few photo copies, it takes 10 minutes for the machine to warm up and make a copy. Is there any way to reduce warm up time?

[@justaprinter]

You could turn off the power save feature. But your electric bill will increase. There is something in the setup section where you can change the amount of time until it sleeps.

[@rickfullerton694]

@@justaprinter thanks I will try that. Konica dealer says nothing can be done about it. I think they are not being forthcoming about this issue.

[@zijinzhang20]

I did 45 million monochrome clicks since the start of my business. Canon vp135 did 28 million.

[@justaprinter]

Thats awesome and something to be proud of!

[@jasonrandolph9593]

I love the VPs. IMO they are by far the best BW machines out there. The Just run and run and run

[@supernerd7093]

do you have a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for your server?

[@justaprinter]

No, I never got one. The power never goes out here so I have not bothered.

[@supernerd7093]

@@justaprinter I highly recommend it, I learned the hard way. it also regulates the power supply against spikes and drops. you can get them pretty cheap. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6HcioaVeN-fbqc

[@socsimplified]

How much thick paperback can be?

[@justaprinter]

I can bind up to 1.5 inches on my perfect binder.

[@newxeroxpoint399]

KONICA 13x19 WICH MODEL IS BEST PLS SUGGESTI SIR

[@justaprinter]

the 3070 or similar machine is great.

[@CarlosSalazar-mc9dv]

Hello Dan, where can I contact you? I have printing jobs for our book publisher that I would like to get quotes from your shop. Thanks, Carlos Salazar

[@justaprinter]

[e-mail]

[@mg8718]

I wish i could partner with guy and give my little copier service company a lift.

[@justaprinter]

That would be fun!

[@tibiastats707]

1.5 speed, np

[@justaprinter]

Yes!

[@x_x_w_]

I'm moving away from the unifi ecosystem because ubiquiti has a major issue with keeping things stable and bug-free. They are always looking for the next big thing to release half-baked and then discontinuing the whole line when it doesn't go like they thought. And there is that whole entire data leak thing that they didn't disclose until they were backed into a corner......

[@justaprinter]

Oh yeah? I have not heard. I'll have to keep that in mind.