Recent content by Danny Whitehead

It's going to have to be screen printed, or they're going to have to change their corporate colour significantly. They're going to do the latter sooner or later anyway. It's just unfortunate that you're going to be the first to inform them of their mistake (unless they've already been told and...

If I understand you, you're looking to find the closest Pantone solid to the closest CMYK build to a particular Pantone solid. So for instance, Orange 021 C would become 166 C. I'd use Photoshop. Make sure you have the desired CMYK profile set as your working space, and that the Pantone swatch...

He isn't. You've identified the problem accurately enough, but I'm almost certain this solution will fail, not least because there's already a better one - a combination of ICC-based colour management, an understanding of the limitations of different media, and an understanding of the brand...

The better (and eventually, the only) option will be increasing your storage capacity, rather than messing about throwing away data or deteriorating quality to save a few GB.

I miss the days of the scribes. Print made us stupid.

Has there ever been any discussion about changing Acrobat's default to have overprint preview switched on for all PDFs, not just PDF/X?

Surely that would be invisible regardless of viewer or overprint preview? It's not applicable to this situation, but I tend to use the Multiply blend mode a lot these days instead of overprint, as it doesn't require overprint preview to display correctly. The vast majority of our work is only...

You'd hope that reps would be capable of translating pre-press' straight talk into helpful advice, but it's rarely been the case in my experience. I've heard "oh, so you want me to tell them they're idiots?" or similar plenty of times.

That's an irreconcilable contradiction. Open an shut, as far as I'm concerned. The only solution is to educate the customer into using a consistent build.

A related story that I'm not sure has been brought up here was about our (UK) new, post-Brexit passports. The right-leaning folk here who voted for Brexit, would generally have it that France's more socialist system makes them less competitive. Then, guess where the contract to print the...

Trend? I guess how you deal with it depends on the extent of the fixes you have to make each time they send a revised file, and how much you can automate them. For instance, we have one client who's attempting the world record for different ways to specify Pantone 186 U + black in one file, so...

...and we'll do everything we can to make sure it doesn't.

PDF/X-4:2008. Judging by your other thread, you're considering non-APPE RIPs. I'd advise against that, but some of the problems you'll face with old Postscript RIPs might be overcome by using PDF/X-1a:2001.

Depends what equipment you have, what the workload's like on your machines, and the EXACT quantity and page count. And I wouldn't even presume 'digital'. It could potentially be economical to run 1000 on a one-colour press.

This intern could really turn the tables by returning with a box of those halftone contact screens I vaguely remember using in the darkroom to screen photos.