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Hello MacTwidget, there is a simple solution: you say when I am in front of the work force I am management's man putting over your concerns, but when I am in front of management I am the work force's man putting over their concerns. You let both parties know this, clearly, FORCEFULLY. Otherwise...

I work as temporary cover for many commercial printers, both digital and offset litho, covering holidays, sickness, etc. Most of them have Adobe Creative Suite (1,2,3,4,5 and 6) running on old Macs, alongside modern macs & PCs with Creative Cloud. The Apple G5 line seems almost indestructible...

www.anthonyminchinton.co.uk Has some basic printroom documents.

Stop dicking around and call in an air strike.

I work for a multitude of commercial printers (digital and offset) doing prepress for holiday and sickness etc. There are certain commercial printers I cannot send particular jobs to because the pressman is incapable of doing a good job - they do an O.K. job. All hell breaks loose when pressman...

Hi, I have worked in multiple print rooms & mailrooms for decades as I do holiday and sickness cover through an agency. My experience is that having mail go through a scanner first, before getting to the mailroom is the safest option. This is done offsite in case the scanner ignites a bomb or...

Hello bcr, I opened this PDF in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional (I'm at home) and looked at it, but I deleted the last five colour pages, leaving only the black pages. I opened OUTPUT PREVIEW with different settings and saw anomalies that I believe means you have colour transparency overprint...

In many in-plants they record each machines clicks every day by writing them manually in a log. Three reasons: FIRST it tells you what your bills are going to be and SECOND you can compare billed jobs with click counts on a monthly or weekly basis to see who is taking advantage of your kit to...

Just a thought, but is the paper grain the same way round as the Xerox paper?

Interesting, I had the converse: client had zoomed in to the maximum in Acrobat and said his logo was pixelated - wanted another proof that would allow them to zoom in all the way to check quality. Tried to explain, client could not get their head around this even with a hard copy proof as they...

Not my experience when covering holiday and sickness at Xerox in-plants (which I have done for years), quite the opposite here in the UK. Plenty of the normal print jobs plus the most stupid time wasting clients imaginable - there is a different attitude from clients when its an in-plant in my...

Man I am so far out, remote just doesn't do it justice. Currently only 202 miles from home - has been worse, sadly.

And then IBM used it in their “Hardware Abstraction Layer” software first on mainframes and so on... until it can now be found in almost every computer, desktop or otherwise as all computer techies find it very amusing. It's because we lead a very boring life answering the same questions day...

Alternatively management cannot stomach lower employees being right, so instead there is a consultant team employed who do lots of measuring (you can only manage what you measure) and then presents a thick report that is indecipherable or unintelligible and allows management to say the employees...

Our favourite is the uncalibrated PC monitor user creating a 100% cyan and 100% magenta ink and seeing a nice dark blue colour on their screen. We print a proof and it comes out purple - naturally. Customer then complains that we have got it wrong and our monitors & printing presses are...