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HP uses SmartStream Designer on the press. I will talk to the Press Operator to see what options there are for repositioning it on the press. I guess I just wanted to make sure there was not some prepess element I was missing to cause the alignment issue.

Hi there. I am new to doing prepress with a company that is new to printing in general. I have a background in multimedia design, but mostly web and video based design, so designing for print is somewhat foreign to me. I am reading and watching tutorials on things I need to do but I have run...

Hi, I am new to working with HP Indigo Presses. I recently learned that making a color swatch 100% and naming the color either Green, Orange, or Violet, will trigger my press to print from those color channels instead of trying to create the color using CMYK values. My question is, how do I do...

I noticed the Pantone Color names in the file. This was due to the same Pantone colors being used in another color group. I deleted the old color group and made sure that the name of each Pantone color was in the correct format. I am going to try to print another test today to see how much of a...

Here is the file I am trying to print to color match.

OK. So I created the template with the 20 different colored cells using Pantone Swatches in Adobe Illustrator, then saved the file as a pdf with no embedded ICC profile. We printed selected Pantone Emulation for the color management on the printer and also printed the file using the Pantone...

Macmann, Thank you for the advice. I used the Pantone Solid Coated color book in illustrator to populate the cells with the appropriate color. I have to wait a few days to test this though. Before I print though, I am saving the file as a PDF to print. Just so I am understanding correctly, you...

Hi guys, first of all thank you in advance for any help you can provide. At my current business I have been assigned the new task of Prepress Operations. I have experience and education with graphic design but mainly for web format so print preparation is new to me. -The printer is a HP Indigo...