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You never mentioned the printing process? I'm curious if it is being printed 4cp, the print shop should show you the difference between Pantone 301 and Pantone 301P with a Pantone Color Bridge book. Or at *least* warn you it's not going to match 301.

I wouldn't have the customer convert to outline. I would have the customer fix the issues. Outlines are only created when we don't have or can't download a missing font.

I'm lucky if I don't get pdfs with downsampling to 120ppi. Or "smallest file size" because "it emails faster". (insert banging head on desk here). And trust me, it's not for lack of communication with our customers regarding art guidelines. Issues just off the top of my head would be...

Reason #3: Missing a ship date due to not being able to contact the "graphic artist" or our customer not being able to contact their customer who supplied the submitted art. I agree with converting fonts to paths can and will create issues in some circumstances. If any issues come up on a...

I'm curious why you feel it's a "horrible" thing to do to a font? I've never had an issue with a font that has been converted to paths, either by me or our customers in the 20+ years we've been digital.

Flexo print here. Currently by eye. And I hate it. For the last 7 yrs or so we have been printing one time use items. There's the occasional re-print but not a lot. And 90% of the work is 4cp. Prior to that we were a prime pressure sensitive label printer. We were international award winners...

My previous post isn't showing up. According to Brands of the World LinkedIn is 641 FB is 661.

The vector art on Brands of the World has LinkedIn's blue as 641. Search | Brands of the Worldâ„¢

My guess is they removed that option because of the unexpected results the end user was receiving after checking that box. I flatten pdfs quite often if I have to outline fonts I don't have in order to manipulate the job in Illustrator. Unexpected results on a large percentage of those flattened...

I'm not familiar with the exposure unit but the only thing you'll be out by trying is the plate material. I would do back exposure steps of 5 second increments then wash out the plate and see where you're at. What plate material is it?

With the Flexo plate and anilox technology available to flexo printers today this shouldn't be an issue. 10+ years ago yes, but not in today's world. I would research a new print supplier.

If customers read and followed our supplied art guidelines on how to create print ready pdfs, my answer is pdfs. But seeing how that will never be reality, my answer is native files 100% of the time. I would guess we have to manipulate/fix/rebuild over 50% of the customer submitted pdfs. I'm...

Looking for a working Linotronic 530 or 560 in the US. Thanks Darin