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Thanks !I agree that is dang fugly, but explains it perfectly !

@tngcas - would love to review your instruction page - is that on your Inspire Print website or is it some PDF you share with customers ?

That does nothing to help anyone mix the ink that will be used to print with, or what the Lab values for that color are. We are printing, not dyeing textiles @bteifeld ...

While doing that in a price table would be tricky ( a nice word for impossible ) it sure seem like if OPS offered a formula that looked at total sheets in the job - then used THAT to calculate when to apply a price break, that would solve the problem. But you mention they require $1000.00 to...

Wonderful Article @noelward ! Chad is a avid user and many of his feature request have become our most popular tools.

Hi Dov, This is making me nutz ( not a very far drive, i know ) - can't figure out what Adobe Illustratior setting to tell customer to change - this is the second customer reporting this... 2023-04-05_Prima

@jwheeler - we are a software developer and many of our customers offer embroidery and screen printing services. Here are some observations I have seen -

here is the file agreed. I fixed the original post so the URL now works - thanks for pointing that out as well. I had no idea that OCR would work on outlined characters.

I have not encountered a PDF before that does this. Was giving our system problems generating a thumbnail - so i opened it in Adobe Acrobat and this happened 2023-01-25 FirstGX I have no idea why. I was shocked to see there were no fonts in the PDF, yet, when I clicked Edit tool, it loaded...

um, okay, well - many imposition apps ignore these boxes ( as designers often do not understand what they are or how much bleed is required ( as there is no standard bleed amount from printer to printer ) - many imposition simply center the PDF into an imposition cell ( of if saddle stitch...

but do you have the Putty book ? ( that was the one for PDF )

This assumes the OP has a method to generate a JDF ( unless he wants to type one in Notepad++ ) - but, then, I have no idea if EFI charges to add the JDF processor - and have no idea how much that is. But I 100% agree that using JDF would be the approach.

Creo - back in the day - made an Adobe Acrobat plug-in - that could take separated PDF and "re-combine" them into a composite PDF - this ( of course ) required a way to assign a separation plate a color ( like Pantone 151 or Cyan ) - i recall using that when we wanted to recombine separated PDF...