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Are you able to adjust the transfer voltage? On our Canon, when setting up paper profiles there is an option which allows you to increase/decrease the transfer voltage. Raising it will pull more toner to the sheet. Also see if there are options like (toner reduction) and (image smoothing) turn...

Work at the print shop Monday thru Fiday, at the Gas Station every Saturday (I try to take at least 1 Saturday off per month) I work for the Sewer Authority in my township which requires cleaning the poo cage - worst.job.ever. I play 18 holes of disc golf 2x a week and ride my bicycle at least...

I work at a Gas Station in western PA on Saturdays as a fun/perk job. Couple of things that people find amazing; Full serve - yes, we do it for you and you pay more, 10 cents a gallon more. We'll do your windows, check your oil and the air in your tires, if you're obese, we'll bring you 4...

XpedX or Sterling Paper are two we use in west PA

Just a guess, but are you using paper made for digital? We use Cougar and Endurance cut size digital paper and the dryness of it causes the edges on high coverage areas to look crummy. If I cut some non-digital paper, like some Domtar Lynx or Springhill Index the problem goes away, although now...

Was wanting to put something witty in here earlier and couldn't think of anything until... got called up front by boss, with client and they're talking about making a 96" x 30" banner. Guess where the artwork is coming from? if you guessed from a business card, then you're correct sir! I also...

I used to use plate finisher on both sides before loading plates and then wipe them down after mounting. I never left the wheel mechanism in the press while running, only when mounting and that kept it clean as a whistle. I hated pu2, didn't seem as easy going as pu1. Always ejected plates...

indesignsecrets.com might have that info

Just rec'd some files to be printed for a client done in InDesign 5.5. There is a script font that has a .1 pt stroke on it and I'm guessing she did it to add weight. So I make a PDF - Press Quality/PDF/X-4 - and the stroke is very jagged on the type with the stroke at 100% view. Zooming in...

Agreed, I have an imac at home that has version 5.5, not CS5, good old fashioned 5.5 and it's still good to go. Flashy gui changes and a ton of stuff for the web guys is about all there's been. Elements was a nice thing as far as affordability, wish they'd make an InDesign Lite for the masses.

With out looking at your files and just guessing by the description, it sounds like the rollers on the press are getting bad. The rollers get flared out on the ends and the middle sucks in. Only a guess.

I did the Acrobat test this morning, I have Acrobat X for mac OS and I took a PDF created from InDesign CS2 and saved it as Word. It worked, poorly, not as good as the Nitro free online conversion. I think my inexperience with Microsoft Office is my biggest roadblock. Most of our clients don't...

Just tried Nitro PDF to Word online service, it worked to a degree, fonts were wrong but it was an editable word doc. Anybody have any luck with PDF to Word converters? I've come to trust the argued out conclusions at Print Planet more so than the flashy sell my product web pages.

That pretty much details what I'm trying to avoid, break down and rebuild, was hoping for a plugin/add on of some sort.

I work at a small town print shop and the majority of the files I receive are Microsoft Publisher or Word. I ussually edit said files natively and make a PDF and import them into a friendlier Adobe setting for output. When the client doesn't submit any source, I'll do all layout in InDesign or...

Well put Lammy, you said the magic words - infinite scalability. I get to explain this to our clients at least once a week, the whole raster/vector explanation, the RGB on screen vs CMYK on paper (why my colors bad?) explanation and many other things our clients are unaware of. My point is that...

So if EPS is dead, what do you guys do when you get a 72dpi RGB logo pulled from the web and are asked to put it on a billboard or the side of a semi-truck hauler? Is there a process for taking a small raster image and making it huge with no loss of quality?

All 3 above mentioned work well enough, watch out for the "Word Art" crap and overprints. We recently moved up to Publisher 2010 from the 2002 version, seems to have gotten a little better. Still uses the hybrid measurement system that defies all logic.

I just printed some 4pt type out in black and reversed in white and it was quite legible (with a magnifying glass). I've seen some jitters, cracking, washing out, mis-registration of color, spots, runs, streaks and all sorts of things happen. The techs are all about the climate the machine is in...