Recent content by jim.spurr

We have now had someone in from GMG and are looking at a workflow to try and remove the problem. Potential issue could be resolved shortly but watch this space whilst we force feed potential problem files at it. Will be convinced when we get a months work out of it without any colour...

Its not meeting expectations as tints are a different colour which sooner or later will be spotted by the customer. Its a quality aspect that's the issue not the cost saving as we have customers where colour is really critical. Its making a lot of operators cautious about using it. Jim

We have ink optimizer installed but is becoming a bit of a running joke as its now called ink intensifier as its making tints change colour. Was under the impression this type of software removes the ink from the CMY and brings the colour back as best it can with K but to be honest some of our...

Top Man, back up and running! Cheers

The software preferences in drop down menu, wondered if there was anything in there, like you can change units a type etc. Not trashed anything and am on Mac OS platform. Cheers

For some reason in Illustrator CS5 I no longer have the ability to select a graphic and then click on and hold with mouse and move, when I move the mouse it draws a marquee. Only way I can move the graphic is using x y coordinates and cursor arrows which is rubbish. This is something that has...

Just been using Metrix for the last six months mainly doing flat work, business cards, bookmarks, leaflets etc. Been wanting to utilise it more for magazines, booklets etc. Have worked out how to do the imposition but on creating the imposed PDF when set to run on a perfecting press it moved...

how would I know if this preflight feature is present and how do you turn it off to test to see if this is the issue? Cheers

I am running G5 Power PC. How do you do the reset preferences process, unsure how to action this? Cheers

Am running Indesign CS4 on a a mac running 10.4.11, mac speed is 1.8ghz with 3gb of ram installed. I am getting the dreaded beachball of doom over 30 times a day on various pieces of artwork which is extremely infuriating and time consuming, tried restarting mac etc but still the same, tried...

Absolute perfect timing, just been handed the CS4 upgrade, Jackpot! Cheers for the heads up

Morning chaps, Currently have a few 4500+ page pdf's that are needed to be broken down into 6 page continuous PDF's 1-6, 7-12 etc. Is it possible to action this in acrobat as the extract feature appears to be only able to handle one of these at a time. I know java can be used I think to do...

Cheers! I will check this out

Bit of a quickie here folks. Am wondering whether a colour disclaimer slug can be applied into Apogee when running out epson proofs. Just to cover me when customer are using pantone colours which are output to an Epson 9880. Am new to Apogee so a point in the right direction would be greatly...