Recent content by btravis311

My shop is about to buy a cutter to replace one that's just gone kaput. We are hoping to implement some automation with JDF or CIP3/4. Our new Sierra RIP can natively output JDF, but not CIP3/4 without a separate licen$e. My understanding is that the cutter (Polar 92X) accepts CIP3 info, but...

We are a small commercial print shop, and money is so tight right now. We are still using a RIP solution that's 8 years old. It's Screen's Trueflow 3.02 TF215 release, installed on a Dell Poweredge 1600SC, running Windows 2000 Server, Service Pack 4. We're using this PC RIP to drive a a...

Thanks for the guidance. You were right to draw a distinction between the i1 Pro and the EyeOne. I misspoke: it's the EyeOne I have here. The original RIP system shipped on a PC with Windows Server 2000. When that box failed, I was forced to install ProofPro 1.0 on an XP SP3 machine. I've...

We drive our Epson 7600 with Kodak's Matchprint ProofPro RIP v1.0. I've had to load this RIP software on a Windows XP SP3 PC. The RIP software works fine, and the i1 Diagnostics app I just downloaded from X-Rite's website tells me that the i1 Pro device (connected via USB) is passing all the...

We have an older Trueflow RIP that does not handle live transparencies, so we need "flattened" files, too. We have pretty good success with PDFs that follow the PDF/X-1a standard. That PDF preset is available in Illustrator using the "Save As..." function, then selecting Illustrator PDF, then...

I'm trying to decide on a backup and recovery solution for a Dell PC running Windows 2000 Server, SP4. If the hard drive failed right now, things would be bad. I need a solution that would help me recover it quickly and reliably. I need a solution that will accomplish a few things: 1) The...

I've attached a couple of screenshots of OutlinePDFs that came from PDF files we RIPed in TrueFlow. You can see that some of the text lines have goofed up and have compressed and squished together. Anybody seen such an occurrence?

I haven't tried to save to PDF v1.6. The PDF files for my TrueFlow RIP need to be PDF/X1a, which I believe is PDF version 1.3, right?

I'm running Trueflow 3 v3.02. I know, I know, it's a fossil. Hey, upgrades aren't cheap! Anyway, when we first installed it, we were using Acrobat Pro 6. When Acrobat 7 shipped, I upgraded and found that any PDF file which I opened, altered, and saved in Acrobat 7 would instantly abort at...

We're currently running two seats of CS3 Design Standard, and are trying to decide when/if to upgrade to CS4. We've only had two clients try to submit native files in ID-CS4 and I just had them provide PDF-X/1a files. But sooner or later, it will be more hassle than it's worth and I'll need...

We have Trueflow 3 Ver3.02 TF210, and I think you're describing the same issue we've always had with this RIP. For jobs that have been images and now reside in "temporary stored," I can use the "re-output for recorder" function to re-output one or more plates, but I can only choose from...