Recent content by Mike Z

We've always had to manually set the color pages in the Media tab of the Fiery rip because Preps marks are registration color and will generate a color click charge on grayscale pages otherwise. Since the marks color is a global setting in Preps, if you set them to Grayscale there your spot...

Hello community. Looking for a job in Southern CT area. I have over 30 years experience in printing, with the last 25 in electronic prepress. My last few positions included pre-flighting, color correction, page assembly, data merge for variable printing, imposition, creating automated workflows...

I checked there, it is under PgyEvoConfig/Preps/Templates and only seems to have the .tpl templates. The workflow templates can be manually exported from the Prinergy Template editor (not to be confused with the Workflow editor available from the Prinergy Client). These files export as .xml and...

I have over 200 Evo workflow templates to automate refining and imposing various sizes of pdfs/sheet sizes, mostly for digital. I had been successfully backing them up by Exporting them from the template editor, always ending up with over 200 files in the workflow export. At some point this...

Thanks Steve! We did not have that Preps pdf. Does anyone have the Prinergy Evo 5.x pdf? That might explain the Evo workflow creation after you have the Preps templates made. Nobody at the new shop seems to have a Kodak log in.

I am currently working with Prinergy Evo 5.169 and Preps 5.33 creating some workflow templates that will automate some basic jobs. When I create an imposition in the Evo template editor, under Preps Impostion Planning, I only see the templates that are in one of the subfolders under...

Adjusting element widths easily Wow, it sure did take a long time to catch up with Illustrator!. Hasn't Illustrator had the reference point since about version 4? Because it's so much hassle to make simple adjustments to elements in Pitstop, I often outline the type and just open in...

I have both Pitstop 7 and Pitstop 8 on different computers. When trying to simply adjust the width of a fill box it seems you have to adjust by changing the top left, size, top right coordinates in the inspector pallet. Is there an easier way to do this or can newer versions of Pitstop...

permanent crop permanent crop When you say you can't do a permanent crop why does it matter if it's not permanent? I thought you could always change the crop and that the crop was just what is viewed in Acrobat or however you are viewing. I just tried cropping a 8.5 x 11 page to the bottom...

I have created some new marks and saved as .eps from Illustrator as a version 10 eps. I also saved it as a pdf but this is probably not necessary given our Rampage workflow. I added the mark with Setup, add custom mark. When I go to place the new mark, I see it in the folder but it is grayed...

We just had a strange font problem using InDesign CS5.5 on Mac OSX 10.5.8. The fonts were in the Document fonts folder which resides in the same folder as the document. Opened the document, checked fonts, none missing and everything matched the customers supplied reference pdf. Exported a print...

Have you thought about converting the type to outlines?

SoftwareMedia.com still has CS5.5 Design Standard Mac in stock for about $390 and you get the free upgrade to CS6. I would wait till they updates to CS6 are out before upgrading to 6 though

No line screen needed.. No line screen needed.. they could be running the banners on an inkjet printer like an Epson 9600, or similar. These printers do sort of a dithered pattern and do not have a normal screen pattern like an offset press would.

One other thing you could try, if your rip has this capability, is to see if you can pick the 2 dominant process colors used and remap these to 2 spot colors for output. Prinergy and Rampage can do this though I'm not sure if what you're using can.