Recent content by jrhmobile

What are the specific colors? Knowing the numbering for those colors may tell as much about your color builds as the letter suffix. If you can share the colors, maybe we could be more help.

I've had good luck with RightFont. If you're running older Macs (like MacOS 10.x or 11.x) they offer a purchase version for less than half the price of Extensis' old stand-alone product. If you're running later Mac Silicon systems and later versions of MacOS, RightFont's compatible products are...

To further consider your analogy: If you store your stuff in a bank's safety deposit box, are they responsible to the FCC, various worldwide communications regulators and government busybodies for the contents in that box? The answer tothat question would be no. But remote servers and services...

How about an option to say I'm using both Adobe and Affinity? That's what I'm doing.

Have you tried object-level trapping with the Attributes panel? Select the element you want to overprint. Arrange it in your stacking order to preclude any rude surprises. If it's not already open, select the Window>Output>Attributes menu command. Select the fill and/or stroke overprint...

I wouldn't buy into the M1 Macs. Apple is already upgrading the specification to M1+ and M2 chips, both options are expected to offer the RAM really needed to push lots of work through a busy shop, and if you go to the Adobe User Forums, you won't have to go halfway down the first page to see...

@Possumgal — I know how to fix that problem. Set a substantial, commensurate price for fielding their calls and helping them out of their bad spot(s). With a per call base price and additional charges for the time you spend helping them. The nuisance calls will disappear and they won't call you...

In a way, you're right on time dealing with the cross-platform font issue, because everybody in this business is going to have to go through their fonts, assess what they've got and set up a plan for dealing with fonts in the very near future. The first thing to deal with will be sorting out...

You may want to check out BarTender by Seagull Scientific for generating your barcodes. It's flexible for inputs, outputs 2-D barcodes which can incorporate a lot of data in a code the size of an indicia on your job tickets, and is flexible enough to incorporate addresses, contacts, internal...

Cool. You want to share it?

You guys may laugh, but as a print buyer I know the persuasive power of providing a box of doughnuts to the press crew ...

@OffsetStorefront - You're killing the punchline here, but I agree with you. I worked in publication production and editorial for a number of years until I realized that the folks I'd trained were undercutting my bids for production work so then I changed my focus to training, then consulting...

By my limited experience (newsprint/35lb/50 lb bright white web, flexo, water-based inks) I've found that variation in ink suppliers were more of a factor than the substrate we printed on. But then we were only running on uncoated stocks.

I think the more important question is whether you're getting 84K max in images and color builds, or if you're getting 84% screened type. Type might be an issue, but at 30% dot gain, you're going to get a solid black build on press. Run that deeper on anything but stand-alone type and you're...

You can go back to your source docs and apply your curves there - especially if you use Adobe's Creative Cloud or Suite app's since color settings are applied across all app's since CS5.5ISH and get the results you want. But truthfully, it's better if you leave that to your output house.