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    Embedded vs External Fiery Server for printing PDF’s and InDesign

    Starting with a caveat - Each press manufacturer contracts with EFI to determine the standard and optional feature sets for each model of Fiery. So what may be standard on one Fiery may be an option or not available at all on some models of other Fiery's, or different vendors equipment. Check...
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    Can konica 1100 PRO black printer do mix media? and how?

    When using the PS Plug-in driver, you can specify page by page options for your print jobs. Take a look at this section of the user manual: http://kmbsmanuals.konicaminolta.us/bizhubPRO1100/contents/id01-_102141884.html
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    Xerox DocuColor Printed Leaked NSA Documents

    To be fair, the title of this thread is completely misleading. The DocuColor DID NOT leak any documents. It allowed the government to figure out who made copies of classified documents and illegally carried them out of the building for distribution.
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    How do I explain to a client that a CMYK value is not an actual color?

    I'll put my customer hat on and throw more gas on the fire... My CMYK values specify the colors I want on the produced piece when I slap my i1Pro2 on it. All your talk about LAB, CMYK, Pantone, substrates, refletive/refractive are fine, but those are your problems, I'm specifying final output...
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    Fiery "Use Embedded Profile" setting...

    My take on this is that if you do not choose to consider the incoming profile, you will ignore the existing profile and perform the equivalent of a Photoshop "assign profile" on the incoming file rather than "converting to" your desired profile. Depending on your file and how you handle it in...
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    Device Life Expectancy

    As alluded to by others before this is not as easy as a single number answer. There would have been a target design life for the main body frame which is well past any number you would realistically expect a service entity to be happy with. On top of, or more accurately subtracting from this...
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    VDP on a Konica C8000 using Fiery Command Workstation 5

    I don't know this for a fact, but this is my thought process here - FreeForm predates the PDF print engine by more than a decade so it was conceived and written when there was no thought of the PDF print engine. It almost surely leverages PostScript code for the storage of the background form...
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    Wrong color - Manage, Profile or Cal?

    You might also give a look at the Fiery Autogray adjustment. I've been quite pleased with its ability to draw the machine back to neutral. I'm sure that the procedure is available either in the manual or from the CWS help, but you will find the launch button on the lower right of the color...
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    Another Command Workstation Question

    As you probably realize, Fiery hot folders can be configured to select a SeeQuence Impose template. Unfortunately for your application, both the hot folder and impose will only work with one file at a time. There is no mechanism within either to set up a routine which would combine different...
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    KM C1060 upgrade from KM D550

    I'd recommend you go back to the dealer who gave you the quote for this configuration and ask for a do over. The items they have listed are not a valid configuration for a C1060. It appears to me as if you have a pre-release estimate in which they substituted the C1060 in place of a C6000. Some...
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    Konica C6501 suitability opinions please

    Just a couple of quick points in addition to your other responses Although the machine is spec'd for 300gsm (100# cover) be aware that this is simplex only. Although I know of many shops who regularly run 100# cover auto duplex by telling the machine it is 256gsm, 100# cover is outside design...
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    Konica Minolta C6000 with or without external rip

    These are not the only differences between the embedded and the external, but they are the ones on which most people make their decision: If you plan to do variable data in formats other than PS or PDF (i.e. PPML, VPS) then you have to go external as the embedded Fiery will not handle those...

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