Recent content by G Oliver

I think you mis-read the title. The DocoColor printed the leaked documents.

My shop just went through this exact decision process to replace an old Creo Darwin install, and in the end, we ended up purchasing both DesignMerge as well as upgrading FusionPro. I'll use Fusion Pro for simple addressing or numbering jobs, but when I'm handed an InDesign file with image/page...

I love Fusion Pro for shorter and relatively simple runs. For longer, more complex jobs, or jobs with extensive bindery that are likely to require a lot of reprints, my workhorse is a 9-year-old version of Kodak's Darwin Pro. I evaluated XMPie a year ago, and while I loved the product from a...

You're right, Macmann. I was incorrectly using 'alpha channel' to refer to the transparency in a single-layer but un-flattened file.

Thanks for the responses. I knew there had to be something I had overlooked. I took both approaches out for a spin. Of course, both worked, but I found that Macmann's quick method only works when there's no alpha channel. When I tried to paste over transparent pixels, PS generated a selection...

I was preflighting a newsletter, and the customer asked that a potion of a logo be printed as percentages of black, with no cmy. Of course, the provided PS file was cmyk, and the indicated portion was a build containing almost no black. I spent a few minutes trying a couple of approaches to...

Is there a technical reason you're fixed on the 11x17 sheet? If not, I would recommend printing on a 12x18 sheet (a common, standard, and affordable size in the digital world) which would allow for a bleed on all four sides. One side note -- as a designer, you should rarely, if ever, be doing...