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We are looking for a very experienced prepress manager for our growing in-house prepress department. Qualifications will need to include: • 3+ years experience with EskoArtwork prepress software • Color correction and profiling background • Ability to work on files as well as manage jobs...

I did see the PDF/X file trick which allows customers (also our internal people) to see the PDF correctly. The only problem remains is when people go to print the PDF, the white overprinting layer ends up printing on top of everything, essentially blocking out the artwork. Yes, I am aware that...

Hi all, Had a question on trying to get a PDF with simulated overprint. We have many customers who require PDFs for minor changes. We are a flexo printer and usually set up our files with our white plate (traps as well) overprinting on top of all layers. In Leopard I was able to print to PDF...

Hi, We are looking for someone to help out in our in-house prepress department located outside of the Chicagoland area. We run a wide web flexo prepress department that services the presses in our warehouse. We run DuPont Digital Flexo plates (mostly DFH) Qualified candidates will need to have...

Hello all, I have a question on trapping with AICS4 and TrapX. We have been pushed by our customer to deal with more and more "fades" in their placed files. For example an animal with fuzzy fur is partially transparent and we trap into a line color. The problem is, I will go into Photoshop...

Sorry for long delay. Got the Mac in and everything seemed to work OK, but My Illustrator kept on crashing when saving some files. Ended up moving everything over to the backstage server as per Lars' suggestion. Wonder why it's so hard for the Mac share to work? Oh well thanks all.

Is anybody sharing their files from a Mac through Backstage? We are running 7R6 and our server is down to about 6GB left. The current server is Mac Server 10.4.11 and I am in the process of purchasing an iMac and transferring over the files and sharing from the Mac. Anybody have any...

Hello all, I have been looking around everywhere, but I can't seem to find out how to create smart marks in either Packedge or Illustrator to show up in Plato where i want to place them. Anyone have any tips. We are using Scope 7 R4. I actually created the marks I wanted in Packedge but when...

This happens to us from time to time. It seems to be a Helvetica font issue. It only happens to us when a certain version of helvetica loads. Even when you create to outlines it still remains until you copy the artwork to a different document and save out as another name. Very frustrating

Wide Web Flexo Printer in Elmhurst, IL looking for a Pre Press Technician to help in troubleshooting files as well as to learn all aspects of our work flow. Must know Illustrator, Photoshop and separations. Knowledge of Esko work flows (Backstage) a huge plus. This is a salaried position...