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Would a detail oriented person experienced in prepress with Adobe Creative Suite experience be a candidate for this position?

They are too near the drum to inspect. The only way to tell if the lenses are dirty is to use the cleaning tool (at least as far as I know).

Yes, there are lenses to clean. The 400 comes with a lens cleaning device with wipes

I don't recall the exact procedure for rebalancing the lasers, but somewhere in the software you can plug in numbers to increase or decrease the laser intensity for each. There are 64 lasers in all that can be adjusted. Hopefully you have found a service manual that can help you with this.

I worked for a company that purchased a used Dimension 400 and used it for over 10 years. One of the big drawbacks was that the lasers would need to be balanced out on a fairly regular basis. I believe there were 16 banks of lasers. Once the lasers were out of balance, you could start to see...

In the .ai file, I converted "black (copy)" to grayscale color mode, saved it, opened the .eps file and updated the link. This seemed to keep the black as just black.

Is the document color mode set to RGB color in Illustrator? If so, try changing it to CMYK.

Paper does have a different finish from side to side. My experience running a KM C1060 was that uncoated, textured stock was difficult to get the toner to lay down nicely and fill the texture of the paper. The newer machines have a softer transfer belt that helps with this issue.

That sounds out of the ordinary and I have not see that happen. One of our quality checks before we plate a job is to view the plates in XMF to verify the latest files have been rendered before sending the job to the platesetter. It's also a good opportunity to catch other issues like incorrect...

Has anyone ever swapped out lasers on a Presstek Dimension 400? I'm not sure the best way to access the lasers. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Agreed and well-stated. I'll hide the bubblegum!

I work for a small commercial shop with both offset and digital printing, and I am responsible for prepping files for both platforms. We have an internal design staff, and I would say 80% of our print work comes to us from them. The other 20% comes directly from our customers. The majority of...

Another option is DesignMerge, which is a plug-in for InDesign. We use this quite often for doing mail merges and find that it works very well.