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I'm considering adding a 31"-ish gear driven cutter, and Colter-Peterson's PRISM unit appears to undercut comparably specified Polar and Perfecta units on cost. PRISM cutters don't seem to have seen much discussion here over the years. Might anyone have experience, good or bad, to share?

I like PMS 186 for this. You can get a better match if you turn down the brightness and maybe the saturation of your monitor.

Could this be from slowdown belts in the delivery?

You may be able to find a local mail house that's comfortable processing your data for you and returning the lists with barcodes and tray number fields added, along with the paperwork you'll need. You could then easily imprint the barcodes using the USPS barcode font (and imprint mail tray...

I know the feeling! Is it me, or did PageMaker run faster and deliver more reliable output a decade ago?!? At the time, some people called it 'RageMaker'. I just thought: "get over it guys, at least it's not QuarkXPress".

Quark is far less intuitive, particularly for those with a PageMaker background. Quark is buggier than InDesign, is more crash-prone, has issues with recognizing certain fonts that load fine into the OS and are recognized by all other apps, omits Trim Box information in Postscript created using...

It's better to use the Export menu option, because the Print option omits some of the page boxes. It's better to use PS, because Quark's PDF Converter is in my experience less robust than Distiller. Under Preferences>PDF, choose "Create PostScript for Later Distilling". Now, use...

Centered. But the work wouldn't have to be centered on the form, unlike a tumble where the front and back plates have to be identical. You could set margins in Preps to off-center the work and Preps would automagically keep it backing up properly.

UberTech, I thought the Fiery documentation said that option only works for vector images. The OP is wanting to substitute colors within a raster image... am I wrong that this won't work for that?

Added it to my prior post. Commercial offset, ranging from business forms to 4-color agency work. Evo's a dead stable RIP, very full-featured and easy to use. Actually, when we first installed it, it was making 1-bit TIFFs for an old filmsetter. Never let me down in that capacity either...

We've been using EVO since 2005. It's a great system. My understanding is that it's just Prinergy without the job database. We're a commercial offset shop running 20-micron Staccatto imaged on a rebuilt Trendsetter. EVO makes plates for the four presses we run, ranging from an old Multilith...

Have you tried using 'Absolute' rendering intent for RGB under Expert Color in the CWS job? I'd mess with the settings there... you can make RGB black print as black instead of gray for sure. Fiery does do color substitution, but not within raster images. In RGB preview mode in Acrobat, both...

Interchange never worked! Interchange never worked! For a year or so, I was using interchange format to back-save CS4 docs through CS3 into CS2 in order to do data merges. After the merge, I always have to copy the data out of the CS2 file into the original formatting from the CS4 file...

When I see this happen, it's because the last character in the paragraph (the carriage return) is formatted with extra leading. Try quadruple-clicking to select the entire paragraph, then enter your desired line spacing.

@ the OP, if it's not too late -- save two copies of your alligator file, one with and one without the drop shadow. import the one with the shadow into INDD and set it to blend mode Multiply. Then superimpose the one with transparency working (but no drop shadow) as Normal blend mode. Done.

See what your ink vendors think about staccatto with your ink set... they may have advice. Also make sure your plates hold 1-99%. Also you can't print staccatto without correcting your plate curves based on a test print on your press to get the dot gain you want. We get more consistent...

It seems to me that management will care about process control - however you screen - if they're pursuing ISO. Logging press variables, even just once per shift, should be a part of every pressman's job. Point out that your present dependence on press operators' experience and judgement calls...

My customers and prospects are aware of the difference and prefer FM. I've also found it more stable on press, which is to say that when I ask my operators to adjust the color, I see less dramatic changes in the print as ink density changes than I see with AM. I run FM20 even on a press with...

Stephen, I've attached the file converted to the green spot color you included in your swatches. I did "Select All", then "Edit">"Edit Colors">"Recolor Artwork". Near the top, I selected "Colors: 1", then I double clicked the swatch displayed under "New", selected "Color Swatches" and chose...

So, Distiller makes files your clients like but you're Normallizing to larger PDF files for them to download? Why not Distill the proofs?