Recent content by Luiszvd

I had a Ci64 sphere spectrophotometer connected on a MacBook Pro with Parallels and Windows 10 to be able to take readings through iQC. Recently I have had to upgrade to a M1 MacBook Pro and the configuration I now have is a the M1 MacBook Pro running Parallels 18.1.1 with Windows 11. With this...

Yes I am looking for any suggestions on how the client can do a better visual comparison. They would not have the same conditions for analyzing samples as we do in house, so depending on the color of his T-shirt and the angle of vision they sometimes come back with comments like “that gold looks...

We work with a range of products that apply a mix and match of effects and inks, printed on a variety of substrates including normal and metallic inks on foils. In-house we do our color matching under controlled lighting conditions with correct reading equipment, which give us predictable...

A high res PDF should do, making sure all text is outlined, sufficient bleed is applied and avoid jpg compression if you want maintain image quality. Also check with your printer the necessity for things like bleedboxes or trimboxes. If you are working with more than one printer check if they...

I haven’t used Freehand (great app) for while, but as far as can recall, there was a menu somewhere to increase gradient steps. You could also try recreating your gradient with the blend greater trick (the more steps, the merrier) in either Freehand or Illustrator. And if that doesn’t sort it...

I had it set on exporting to PDF/X-3 and for some reason I was geting that transparency on my black, so I changed it to PDF/X-4 asyou sugested, and that sorted out the problem. So the thank you very much for the tip Michael.:)

Been having some problems with transparent blacks in illustrator cs5 files. I only pick it up once the pdf generated in illustrator, goes though the rip or in acrobat with overprint preview. Although in some cases the black artwork involved some whites, I did check for overprint white, which was...

I have little-big problem that I’m hopping someone will be able to help me with. I am using Sigma Station 4.5.40 for imposing, and have a 64 page book with 7 different page sizes to impose. Will I have to do a manual imposition for each set or does Sigma do it automatically? I was thinking of...