Recent content by chevalier

What's the compensation package?

Esko AE user here. We're trying to detect artwork with spot colors in multiply blending/transparency mode prior to processing for RIP. Is there a way to achieve this with Pitstop Action lists?

The bad news: Based on your budget I'm going to recommend that you outsource this instead of doing it internally. It'll take a whole lot of mockups to expense as much as the equipment software and man hours will require. You cannot even purchase a RIP capable of this within that budget, let...

There's some errored information on this post about Heidelberg's Dipco marks system used on ImageControl and Inpress. It varies between the different systems what is and what is not required...

I can certainly see how you would get that impression. It took about 45 minutes, 2 litho plates and about 100 press sheets. Considering the size of the job (~50,000 full size sheets) and it being on a very expensive metallic substate it was well worth the cost, time and energy to make it print...

OK - so my idea was successful with the platescope but did not work with an i1pro2 or eXact. I was able to generate a relatively nasty curve straight to the real numbers but matched it to an Esko pressync curve that smoothed it out very well and produced pretty spectacular results. For the...

For solids we generally use two units to print white "two hits"; the second hit with extra pull back. Getting a measurable solid isn't really challenging. You can use straight density or LAB for that as long as you have a patch of each hit of white and then a 200% trap of both. I've even been...

I have come across a project that uses a lot of opaque white ink screens as an effect on a metallic substrate. I realize that once we get on press we're going to almost certainly need to perform some dot gain calculations and generate curved opaque white plates. I'm thinking that if I invert my...

Have you reached out to the account rep on your ORIS? I'm surprised they didn't at least offer a steep discount. I assume that you hadn't maintained a service contract? I wish they'd get over it and move away from dongles. ORIS remains my only software vendor who still requires hardware dongles...

abc, I addressed this area with Esko AutomationEngine support a while back. If pitstop is going to able to handle this please, please, please pass on the importance to development to enable full use of the properties/attributes with layers. Esko AE tickets only understand printable+visible or...

It's a best practice to just write it in javascript to begin with so that scripts can be operating system agnostic. Illustrator supports Applescript, Javascript and VB Script:http://www.adobe.com/devnet/illustrator/scripting.html

While that ticket will over ride what's been put in place it is a much safer practice to run a preflight checklist with pitstop and fail when overprinting white is detected. That way a human operator can verify what the proper handling of these objects is. You may want the objects to remain...

Still waiting, I'm pretty sure that this is an NDC/HRI code not a UPC(A). This type of code piggybacks on UPC(A) specifications. Here (nih.gov) is an incredibly verbose article about it that I didn't bother reading. DynamicBarcodes can output this type of code.

You can use a 'Preflight with Pitstop' ticket to deal with this in AE. Also DeskPack's Preflight module has a setting for this IIRC.

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