Recent content by Jayhawkmike

I too have been doing this for 20+ years. We are probably 75% PDF file supplied but perhaps we have more "design" interaction with documents as we do complicated boxes, folders, mailing items that need adjustments from the client's original design. They need help, we provide it. We work with...

I haven't had to visit this topic in a while, but I had a client package up their Indesign files and refuse to include their fonts along with. They were not Adobe Typekit fonts I could sync up in the cloud. They had a mixture of different foundrys. Their argument was compelling and provided me...

Thanks for the responses. Yes, the "breaking up into multiples" either from Fusion pro or manually out of Acrobat Professional is our current solution/workaround to getting these large files to process. Sounds like I'm doing what everyone else is. About PPML, yes we tried that initially (some...

Well, screen capture was useless so disregard. In the time span it too to write my results here, the RIP slowed down dramatically. I would say this 8000 page document would be in the 5 hour + rip time at this point.

No Title Thanks for the suggestion - I did some experimenting. I did try one on a 8000 record document writing a PDF/VT. By my stopwatch (wish EFI put a TIME REMAINING on it's interface) it would take a little over 2 hours to RIP. That's a long time. Now the interesting thing is, my document...

PDF output from Fusion Pro is PDF 1.5 There is a PDF/VT option from Fusion Pro. I have not tried that yet.

Currently running two Konica Image Press C1100 devices. Our variable (and some of our non variable) projects are getting larger and more sophisticated. We are finding that the variable files generated from our PTI Fusion Pro solution are crashing the EFI Fiery Rip OR ripping so slowly that it...

Thanks for the responses. Ideally, if customers wanted their swatches represented as CMYK, they should design as CMYK, but that isn't happening no matter how much I wish it to be. I have as many as 14 spot colors (!) within a job supplied to us just last week. My old workflow would assign static...

Very good. My thoughts are it would be much easier to convert using the color management method rather than re-mapping the colors to the "old CMYK" numbers. If a job has lets say 10 spot colors, that could be a tedious process. Challenge would be matching older printed material where the client...

Crickets. I'll ask Enfocus as well. I'm new to Pitstop 13, but I see that there is a SPOT to CMYK action list. Just would like to know HOW it's converting them. I don't think it's using Color Bridge formulas.

Specifically in Pitstop but any work-around you have will do. Example - you get a PDF with 5 spot colors. They didn't use Color Bridge and the PANTONE values are Lab NOT CMYK. Do you use a action lists? We are retiring Neo (issues with support, lack of updates) and I'm just now getting back into...

I have a mystery that I can't get figured out. From time to time, I have clients send me InDesign files that are packaged but not in a way that is organized into folders like "document fonts", links, etc. Instead, I get the documents loose all in one folder. Everything is there, but not...

True, I would agree with native files if I didn't have a handle on my PDF workflow True, I would agree with native files if I didn't have a handle on my PDF workflow 4 years ago, using the Brisque, I would never have given it a second thought. Native files. End of story. However, our current...

My thoughts are in line with the responses so far My thoughts are in line with the responses so far I need to make some type of policy when this sort of thing happens so my sales staff/csr/clients are on the same page. They never know what is coming in, the documents just arrive on our FTP...

This is a question for general commercial printers, although it could apply to anyone reproducing material. New print project. You receive documents from the client. You do not know the designer. They send you native application documents with all supporting files. They also send a PDF file...