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    Sales Compensation...

    No Compete is a must Compensation is best realized as a percentage of profit. Problem is that most printers have no idea of cost to produce. If You have that part under control then a percentage based on profitability gets easier. But beware that you will also need to protect yourself and your...
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    Sales Compensation...

    No Compete is a must Compensation is best realized as a percentage of profit. Problem is that most printers have no idea of cost to produce. If You have that part under control then a percentage based on profitability gets easier. But beware that you will also need to protect yourself and your...
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    Digital printing and thermography

    Spot varnish and thermo but that still requires a duplicator but does eliminate the need to print color
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    Does offset ink go bad?

    We used to suffer similar issues with modified oil base inks that were opened then resealed for 4 months or better, mostly those containing high proportions of reflex blue in the mix this included pur Reflex bLue. We came to the conclusion that there was some sort of separation issue as we...
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    How many years do you hold onto customer print files?

    We only store 3 years if not repeated. Too much risk in having old files around as while we may state that client is solely responsible for proofing, we find it much better to state company policy than put client retention at risk doe to their own oversight or should they have dealt with another...
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    Baum 714 questions.

    Short answer, yes it will likely cause problems mostly Smudging/ marking the sheets as they feed. There are too many older units on the market that were retrofitted with air to even consider using Friction feed in a production environment.
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    Unusual font substitution

    That looks like what we get when an off-shore service provider has done the set-up and fails to create fonts to outlines
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    Gave An Employee A Raise , He Turned It Down ...WTF

    Lets look at this from a real life view. You hired someone with a goal of a 30% pay increase in 1 year. At 30 days you offer him enough to increase his tax burden. He has to protect himself from the employer. If he accepts the first raise then in 90 days you offer him .86 more then he has agreed...
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    Digital Scum or Blast or some other term?

    It appears to be part of your file . I see that frequently on things imported from office programs. to verify just veiw the file at 400%
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    Digital Scum or Blast or some other term?

    It appears to be part of your file . I see that frequently on things imported from office programs. to verify just veiw the file at 400%
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    Anyone using Quickbooks?

    Too many other pre-packed programs that are already set-up to go even oldies such as such as PrintLeader or Printers Apprentice and many more formatted for our industry based on accepted estimating practices to spend the amount of time it will take you to get real usable accounting and history...
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    Imposition and crop mark

    In Impose from you can set your gutter to a negative amount. If your page size is 8.75 then you set the gutter to -.5 but Impose that comes with xerox software requires that you have the dongle to use the Impose features with CWS.
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    Wrong color - Manage, Profile or Cal?

    I see this often when a file is built using both RGB and CMYK Images. This may be the long way around but works for me. Open file in Photo Shop being sure that it is in CMYK and resave as a high res .tif.
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    indesign constant crashing

    We have found many (but not all) Crash issues in all CS versions on our mac's were caused by locations of files being merged or altered and saved as PDF. ie data or file is saved on one server, art file saved on another. It is not realy limited to programs so much as computer or file server...
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    Why do the Files sizes always increase

    thanks, I will pass this information along but I have doubts that it will be heeded. Unfortunatly I have no say with graphics other than my complaints about file sizes that I must deal with in terms of storage and RIP. Hard enough to get them to understand that there are standards that need...

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