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I know you can buy racks to put plates in to dry but have any of you made your own? I reckon over the years a lot of guys have come up with clever wee solutions to problems like this! I want to make something for our guys on the print floor so they can put the plates in it after they come...

Thanks for all your help. I output System Status report and it was sent to Marlowe who have been very helpful and quick to respond. They said it may be the laser overheating but the temp on it looked ok. The whole system was switched off for 30 mins and a new status report done. It was fine...

I believe 2 of the HW engineers and the service manager are all at Marlowe so they should still be able to help :) o/t I am going to ask them about moving the whole software install to a new machine as we are running it on Windows 2000! The PC is from 2001. It looks a fairly simple procedure...

Hi Bill, as it happens we have been on to their support and they thought it may be the laser getting to hot according to the log files I sent (from the test tool) so we switched it off for 30 mins and when we put it back on it was ok - BUT in my experience these things signal impending hardware...

Today I was called in to the plant to see if I could work out what was up with our RIP as it was giving various errors as seen below: Wed 07 Jul 2010 09:22:14: Job Specific Error : Application Error 33328: "Speedmaster 72_092153_1Speedmaster72C00.tkt" in queue "PythonImager" running process 1...

You may have EPS or PDF files within the PDF which have fonts inside them which the preflights don't always pick up. You can find out by trying to rasterize them in Photoshop just to see if any font errors come up. Or in the case of PDFs (within your PDF) - open the original one and preflight...

I am a bit confused here! $22,000 for what! If you generate your PDF and it has multiple pages you can just extract each page as a single file using Acrobat. Or as mentioned - you can use the File>Export to PDF option in Quark and tick the box which says "Export pages as separate PDFs". Is...

Zipping is the best solution - I had the same problem fr a long time and AFP or SMB was still not working for me - even with Services for Mac turned on and all sorts of registry editing on the server and terminal shenanigans on the mac. The solution? Leopard. Fixed it for me as soon as it...

We are using InDesign now as well ;) I think we will be moving over to that completely as we use it for our imposition too so may as well start designing the mags in it - I tried it way back in the early years and it was terribly clunky and slow but it's gradually got better to the point it has...

Aye, exactly. This why forums like this are so good! I find user to user sites better than official forums.

10-15 yrs ago when I was working in newspaper we did exactly that - everything at 1200dpi but these days with the presses our printers use and the CTP workflow it's a bit of overkill - we do them at 600dpi to keep file size down (altho that is also a remnant of the time when we had to send our...

I never put PDFs in Quark as I don't like PDF from external sources inside my final PDF! I always rasterize ads from agencies in Photoshop and then resave as TIF or EPS for placing in Quark - I just have always done this as I know a TIF is a complete flattened file and there will be no font...

Are any of the linked images on another server or are they on your local machine? If on a server and you use a PC server but a Mac to do your design then it could be that the files are referenced using a different protocol like AFS or SMB and then when you click ok the files are found using a...

Is there any reason you are using 2 ID docs instead of one with multiple pages? The reason I as is because you can use Paste In Place as mentioned but also if you are doing many pages/docs with similar layout elements you can use the master pages instead.

I have to say I think it must be - I used to get an issue where some of a page would be greyscale if I used the Mac whilst it was outputting to .ps or distilling. That's a good thought but in this case I don't use sections. Thanks for the replies :)