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Why I like CS5 Why I like CS5 As a creative and production artist in a prepress department I really like CS5. It does cater more to the designer side though. Some new features in Indesign that I use in the prepress environement is: • Multiple page size - for assembling anything that need a...

Yes, I started with being sure my primary and secondary colors were within a dE 5 tolerance. In fact I am a little below a dE of 3. Also, after another press run test. If we achieve a good gray balance our images to do not match our proof. I am using ORIS Color Tuner to output our proofs and...

Not sure if this will help but I though I heard something about going into the Enfocus Certified PDF Preferences and in the General Tab changing the status Icon to "Check Manually" instead of "Check Automatically". That is how I have all my production stations set up and I don't have any...

It is in black. I am using the GrayRails 05 that is in the GRACoL press test. The image that has a 4 color, 3 color and black only image. The 3 color image looks better then the black only. Jerry

Thanks Gordon. The light booths are about 5K. I check them about every six months. We have 3 presses and a viewing area in prepress. The other surrounding light seem to change the color of the press sheet but not the proof. You can really see it in the 3 color gray bars. When you get close to a...

We have just used the G7 methodology to achive a good gray balance for our house coated substrate running on a sheetfed press but our images have a red look to them. All the 3 color grays read and look visually neutral, but matching proof to press the images that have a fleshtone looks off. Our...

We are connecting SMB with the Macs. We been having the drives in the XRAID fail and only been able to purchase the drives off ebay. Afraid if something more serious goes we will not be able to get the part. Do you know if you can connect the NAS to the Xserver so then it will index the NAS...

After a couple of close calls with our XRAID going down this year, we though it would be a good idea to look for a replacement. Going to a NAS seemed like a good replacement since the XServer seemed a little overkill just to hold files. Boy was I wrong. The NAS is faster copying one big file...

The original PDF is an Illustrator file saved as an Illustrator PDF. The original file was fine. When an operator loaded the fonts and make an edit is when he got the dots and symbols previewing when placing the newly saved AI file into InDesign. I am going with a font issue on this. Just have...

Platform: Mac OS 10.4.11 Creative Suites 3 Font: Mostra One Regular

Have not seen this issue since placing PDFs into Quark 4. **Bad flashback**. Client sent an Illustrator PDF file of a business card front and back on an 8.5 x 11 document. Edited the Illustrator PDF, saved as an AI file and placed into an InDesign document. The type on the AI file previewed...

Prepress operators to workflow managers. New prepress systems are not just RIP, trap and plate. A lot of automation under the hood with these new systems. Getting all the non-complex, repeatable job to be automated though scripting and rules-based software. Web2print and web submission with...

Anyone using InDesign Server? What additional software and hardware needed to be purchased? What clients are using it? Thanks for any input.

One time I had a problem with a corrupt spot color library (LUT) in ORIS Color Tuner that would fail my input files with spot colors. This might have happened when your computer crashed. Try creating a new spot color file (forgot the technical name) and relink to your hotfolder.

What version of ORIS Color Tuner are you using? Did you just update ORIS. If so, did you create new hotfolders instead of using the previous ones?