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    Looking for a great prepress room layout

    Re: Looking for a great prepress room layout I think merging these ares is a great idea. You can certainly streamline you production and eliminate stop points by working as teams in this area. You will most likely find you have an increased capacity with your current staff by doing this merge...
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    Entry-level prepress position

    Re: Entry-level prepress position I would suggest starting in a basic prepress role. Here you will learn valuable information pertaining to how different aspects of file design can cause issues throughout the printing process, be it digital or offset. If there is anyway you can get with an...
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    Fonts, font management and PDF

    Re: Fonts, font management and PDF Wow! "worst in the industry". I guess that depends on which chair your sitting in, as from a printing perspective It is the very best I've seen on cleansing PDF files of potential printing problems. Your comments seem to be coming from a PDF repurposing...
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    Fonts, font management and PDF

    Re: Fonts, font management and PDF Leonard, I'll give you an example of font conflicts that happens frequently: a) Several PDF files are concatenated into one. b) the now single PDf file is sent to the RIP. The RIP performs font cashing and somewhere in the middle of the page output fonts...
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    Ready to get OUT of the business ...

    Re: Ready to get OUT of the business ... This frustration reminds me of one of my favorite quotes (from my days in the Marines): "Unhappiness does not arise from the way things are. But rather from a difference in the way things are and the way we believe they should be" How true this is...
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    Training

    Re: Training Ok I can't take it anymore, I have to jump in... I did not go to school for Graphic design, prepress, printing, or anything related to the printing industry. True, I do have a background in electrical engineering (military not college), but to be honest, I do not feel that has...
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    Trapping

    Re: Trapping Careful slamming (Creo) Kodak too hard Mark. As an end user, and avid Kodak supporter, Prinergy brought alot to us in late 1999. Albeit your trapping was the centerpiece of their workflow, They were very successful in bringing together Adobe Open technology and stringing all the...
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    Buy it or Build It? - That is the Question

    Re: Buy it or Build It? - That is the Question I too have heard the "black hole" analogy. But, money speaks to those people. So build your case based on dollars not tech talk. Try and show the cost savings with a particular system upgrade. Use current FTE time that it takes to do certain...
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    Buy it or Build It? - That is the Question

    Re: Buy it or Build It? - That is the Question I totally disagree with the concept of buying a "cheap" front end solution. This is the backbone of your company. If you are going with the cheapest solution you can find you should expect to fight daily to get files into and out of your system...

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