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I would like to send out a big thank you to all who have helped me on this Forum. Hopefully I have helped at least a couple of people. Mostly I followed and learned. I will be signing off in a week. I made it 40 years in prepress. The first 30 seemed fun, the last 10.... not sure fun is the...

I just had a Photoshop DCS Eps file that I couldn't open in photoshop or acrobat. I couldn't export a PDF when placing in Indesign either. I just wanted to preview for a sales person. I was able to use Distiller to create a PDF. So... I keep it around as a tool when nothing else works.

Food for thought. Years ago we had a laser die in our CTP. We were down a couple days to replace. Because we were using a linear curve and a press curve, I was able to linearize and start making plates to get the presses running without having to do any press tests. Granted Lasers do not die...

I have the opposite problem hiring. I wouldn't mind hiring a young person with ambition to train into a prepress operator. Can't find them, and end up hiring an older person. I have noticed the last few people hired in any department, have all been gray haired, because they are the best candidates.

The Laser diodes are usable in some platesetters and cost a fair amount to purchase. That is how we got money for our Final Proof a while back.

gordo, We have sales people that will want to view press sheets in all lighting conditions (5k, office, outdoors) before OK'ing a internal press check. Usually they will adjust magenta down from standard densities and gray balance to account for office lighting and not match the proof. This is...

Am I the only one that has customers viewing proofs and print without 5k lighting and saying we are always red? This seems to be getting worse as stocks have increased the amount of optical brighteners. I have always thought education is the answer, but it only goes so far. We are a G7 shop with...

Another possibility, The cleaning station needs cleaned/replaced. The cleaning works with the cleaning station sealing with a rubber gasket and sucking against the printhead to clean. If the gasket is dirty or worn, it can't preform a effective cleaning cycle.

Now I am on to something. That worked. Thanks Rick

I was creating press curves using a DTP70 and Colorport software and importing the data to Curve 2. My DTP70 died. I have access to a x-rite eye-one iSis. I can't seem to get the ColorPort iSis combination to read any P2P25 target. I would rather not buy new software if possible. I have tried...

I have Nexus 9.5.8 with Oris Color Tuner Web 1.1.2 driving Epson 9900

I am leaning towards the 27 inch iMacs as you say, Paint, with lots of RAM. It is amazing to me how little color work we do anymore. Also the PDF workflows have reduced processor load as is it moving to the servers doing the processing, and the workstations just pushing files around. I...

I am looking for opinions here. Do you think new iMacs are appropriate for general prepress workstations these days? Or should I still be looking at Mac Pro's? Thanks for your opinions in advance. Rick

We have a full time day shift Prepress Technician position open in Denver, Colorado. Looking for a person with strong prepress skills for a shop with both sheetfed and digital presses. This is a production job, not a creative position. Pay is dependent upon experience. Please send resume to...

We use a Gretag IC Plate II with concentric dots on Fuji LHPJ plates no problem. I will tell you that we had a problem in the past with measuring on a surface that was not flat. We now measure with the plates laying on a 3/4" plywood surface. Rick

That would work for a few files. Problem is we have 4-5 TB of storage of old jobs on servers that this affects. Rick

I upgraded a couple computers to 10.6 from 10.5 and all type one fonts are showing 0 k file size and cannot be used. All jobs are stored on a windows server connected with smb. Anybody have this problem in the past. I know I held off longer than most to upgrade. Rick

Thanks for all the ideas. After researching these ideas I did a fresh install, which solved the license problem. It appears everything works at this point. Preps 5.3.3 on OS 10.6.8. Rick

My mistake. Typo. The second half should have been "We will need to upgrade to preps version 6 to run on OS 10.7. Preps not part of prinergy here. Stand alone imposition app. Rick

I did get somebody at kodak to tell me 5.3.3 will run on 10.6 but I will have to upgrade to 6 for OS 10.6. I found the .pwd file but the .lck file never shows up. Moved the pwd file out to no avail. I don't think Preps launches far enough to generate the file. I only get to the splash screen...