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Take a look at InkZone from Digital Information. Their solution will take your PPF/CIP3 files and convert them into a format suitable for almost any press. It will also preset the ink keys on the press for you. This software will probably become the responsibility of the prepress team. Then you...

The server that hosts your shared folder needs an ARAXI/ARAXI account. Then make sure the folder is shared and the ARAXI user has the correct access permissions for your intended use.

Hi Shaun, A couple of ideas spring to mind. You need to either employ version control (_v2, _v2 etc...) in your revised pages and/or use a single page workflow. HTH.

and the costs of it. It's not cheap. You may want to have a look at rumpus (Maxum Development) instead for an FTP server. As for uploads, you may have to have a MT box at either end for transfers to work, depends on how it's all set up.

or Prinergy if you have it.

Use DCS Merger from Impressed, job done. Impressed - Produkte: Impressed DCSMerger

Kodak are having some teething troubles with the new download policy, apparently they're working on it. There's a post on the GUA forums about this. GUA Forums

Its should be on the system DVD that came with your system.

IIRC there's some stuff on YouTube

If you have pitstop, create an action list to apply the page rotation key. This should stop the page rotating in your impo software.

If it's a brand new box it may have colorflow on it, a kind of new version of harmony.

Acrobat 9 Pro can do this out of the box using the split document feature, fairly quick too. Also has a batch mode for multiple files.

As Mike says you can create a DCS file in your final output process plan. Your DCS file can be either single or multi file, use RLE compression, add a tiff preview and also make it photoshop compatible. You can calibrate this with a harmony curve and you can also do this with an ICC profile, but...

You should be OK. Don't install Java update 4, it causes problems with menus in workshop. Kodak are working on a fix.

It would be best to send a pre rastered file to the rip. We send 300DPI compressed tiffs with a little anti aliasing. No problems so far....