Recent content by katjt

In reply to the last post by margadri, I have say that it is rather sad things have come to such a point of no time for training and throwing the youngsters to the lions. I started off on the benches. I was always happy to show someone else what they needed to know when there was a quiet...

I have never heard of such a thing in Auckland, New Zealand. There is not even a Prepress school anymore. There was one at AUT, but it was closed down about 8 years ago (I think). Unless one is able to get an apprenticeship with a company (and the companies don't seem to want the expense of...

Prinergy is a great system, in my view, it is very user friendly, but as said by Joe above, back up is not brilliant. Here in NZ we only have one technician. Poor boy He has to cover the whole country. In Australia they have six tech backups. Unfortunately I have only got the manuals for...

I don't know if you are working in a system like prinergy/preps and are located in a situation where the presses are, or if you are doing digital print. In Prinergy workshop for example, when chucking the files into the imposition with their offsets, I used to work out the percentage of how...

what do you mean - "trackbacks"? All your terminology is different to mine. Started life in Marketing, then into office PA and management in electronics (games in those days - space chaser, battlezone) testing boards with an oscilloscope. Cracked a black and white television to colour (god...

thanks guys - I have only just found this site. Being unemployed at the moment makes for a bit of boredom. I have not laughed so much for a long time.... Being of the old fart variety, I would never go back to the rubylith days. We needed more cutting dexterity then, this is more fun now, and...

I have found that the best tool for doing this sort of corrections is Enfocus Pitstop. But if there is no image beyond the existing crop short bleeds, then the only other things to do are 1) go back to the client and have them add to the bleeds, change the file size and resupply. (I take it...

Hi, I'm kat. Presently unemployed, but desperately looking for another. Plant closed down on us last November (2010). Female of undisclosed age (old fart) in a mostly male oriented industry. Worked in commercial print for 18 years (not my first career) - heat set web offset print. We had...