stonetones58
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Just installed new CTP system -- Kodak EVO. While we have PREPs that came with the equipment, we still try to do our stripping in Quark Express by making a PDF of the original files, then placing those in a stripping document. In the old days we would just print to the RIP and everything worked fine, however, to send to the new system, we make a new PDF and send it over to make plates. Seems simple, doesn't it?
Problems encountered are as follows:
1) Sometimes, not all images from the first PDF make it to the plate
2) Spot colors sometimes make 'extra' spot color plates or original spot colors automatically convert to CMYK (almost like making the new PDF lost the color tag information)
3) Black types occasionally 'spreads'
Mostly concerned though about item no. 1.
In theory what we are doing should still work without having to set up a bunch of PREPs templates, but people are starting to lose hair over this!
Problems encountered are as follows:
1) Sometimes, not all images from the first PDF make it to the plate
2) Spot colors sometimes make 'extra' spot color plates or original spot colors automatically convert to CMYK (almost like making the new PDF lost the color tag information)
3) Black types occasionally 'spreads'
Mostly concerned though about item no. 1.
In theory what we are doing should still work without having to set up a bunch of PREPs templates, but people are starting to lose hair over this!