Recent content by Padzilla

Isn't VDP something to do with video? Heh. There really are some interesting numbers in there. There might be some good insight, in there, for sales reps.

Third party ink Third party ink You have to be careful with that, using third party inks could void your warranty. When I installed a 10600 at a previous gig, we used ColorScience to manage color, and they wouldn't support anything but Epson ink. If you do find a good third party supplier...

Zip/lzw Zip/lzw I used to use LZW all the time, I never had problems with it. Then there was a Photoshop version, I believe it was CS2, that would get corruption lines in images. They put out a fix for it, I remember, but I had switched to ZIP, by then.

How low is low? How low is low? I have worked with a few Epsons, and in my experience, when the "low ink" light comes on, there is still quite a bit of ink in the cartridge. I've run a machine for months with the light on. It made me cocky enough to see how far I could drive my car with the...

You can check out iMarc iMarc - Web Design, Online Applications, Boston, MA iMarc LLC 14 Inn Street Newburyport, MA 01950 USA Phone: (978) 462-8848 Email: [email protected]

ColorBridge worked for me ColorBridge worked for me I ran into this problem all the time. What I ended up doing was switching the color library I use, to the Pantone ColorBridge palette. The swatch books are pretty expensive, but I believe you can download the color palettes for free, from...

I've found, in my experience, that the Color Bridge conversions are more accurate, compared to any app. We did a bunch of tests on our Epsons, and even the Color Bridge colors needed some tweaking, depending on the substrate. There's a lot of variance, even when you look in the Color Bridge...

I have a 4800 here, running an old version of efi Designer. I think the latest version is XF, which offers lots on neat add-ons. We're about to upgrade, because Designer doesn't have any kind of job logs. I gave up on using ColorBurst after about a week. What I would recommend is you also...

Re: Graphic Designers job? Hey Matt- I'm sure you're getting lots of insight, and these replies are interesting to read, if only to know I'm not alone out there. Although I should point out I work for a corporation. I work in prepress/production, attempting to make our files at least barely...

Re: trying to batch process the changing of button properties in PDF I had some luck with selecting multiple fields, at the same time, and updating the links and values. I used copy and paste, a lot, too. I did a quick search and found about a dozen programs, that offer what you might need...

Re: Print finishes - pros and cons I just looked through a great set of books from here http://www.phoenixcolor.com/index.html They were called Look Books. Had a whole bunch of finishing/coating/stamping options. It was one of the best sample books I had seen.

Re: Profiling an Epson to uncoated press sheets? Hey i thought I was the only one crazy enough to do this, but we print to an Epson Enhanced Matte stock, using a custom profile. Our creatives didn't want paper sims on a coated stock, they wanted to "feel" the difference. It's worked out okay...

Re: Color Builds for Body Copy and small print. Good points, Rich. I agree about replacing small point sizes with spot inks. We have a rule here, that small point sizes of type, if not spot colors, should be at least 70% of one color. It's hard to enforce, but a good rule of thumb. As for the...

Re: Photoshop Clipping path trouble-help! Hey, here's a workaround solution. I noticed the same issue when I was working in Cs2. Re-Place the image (File > Place) When your dialog box comes up, to choose and image, on the bottom left, of your dialog. is a box that says "show import options"...

Re: rgb cmyk luminosity shifts Here's a little trick I use, when I know my targets. I used to retouch computer cases, for a catalog company. We found that a color, let's say 3C2Y2M, was good for the color of the computer cases. Rather than go in and adjust each channel individually, I'd go to...