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    VDP on Konica-Minolta 1050s and 6500

    I use uDirect/InDesign to produce variable data print pieces. For black only we print on two KM 1050s, for color a KM 6500. The 1050s do not have a RIP, we normally print using the PCL driver from Acrobat. We have found that large jobs choke the 1050s and they lock up. I've discovered if we use...
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    PDF Transparency/Layers

    Re: PDF Transparency/Layers Leonard wrote: I don't know where you got that information...but printing to the Adobe PDF Printer is the EXACT SAME THING as printing to a Postscript file and then dropping that on Distiller with the JobOption chosen. In fact, that's what the printer is doing behind...
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    PDF Transparency/Layers

    Re: PDF Transparency/Layers I'm not sure what the designers do. I know they don't like Quack 7 files. I don't think they use it unless forced to because a customer used it. I hardly ever get native files and would never get Quack. Prepress/Designers (P/D) are mac and I'm PC, so there are too...
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    PDF Transparency/Layers

    Re: PDF Transparency/Layers Thanks to all who replied. I have used all of those solutions to some extent on various jobs. Sometimes they work, sometimes I have to try another of the work-arounds. PrepressDog mentions importing into InDesign and exporting as EPS. This brings up the question...
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    PDF Transparency/Layers

    I do the input of jobs in a print on demand dept. I continually have problems with transparency and/or layer issues, ie, text (many time with a drop shadow) knocking out the background. I am printing from a Fiery RIP to a Konica-Minolta 6500. I have tried all kinds of settings in Acrobat (7&8)...
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