Recent content by ScottShafer

A year later, I am now in a supervisor role in the Columbus area and we are looking for candidates for our digital print and bindery departments. If you are local in the area and looking to work for a major/global printing company send me a message and I can get you a link to apply.

Hello, my name is Scott Shafer and my family and I will be relocating to the Columbus Ohio area. We will be in town scouting the area on labor day weekend and I am trying to set up meetings with companies on Tuesday September 3rd to see if I can learn more about the printing industry in the...

Thanks, not working for me since I have an older version of pitstop than you. See my screenshot and see if there is an action missing, I tried to re-create yours and it just deleted everything. Thanks for the help.

Well for all our non bleed jobs we print with .25" white borders most are client supplied files for newspaper inserts that come already designed with bleed so we crop off the bleed and reduce the art before going to press.

Before using the actions I described or after?

Pitstop Pro version 13, not exactly sure what you are asking for the sample file, screenshot? Thanks Stephen.

So as of today I had never played around with actions, then realized so much we do manually for every job can be done by ACTION! So I created an action to reduce a PDF to get .25" white borders on all sides, however alot of our artwork comes in set with bleed and crop marks and I have to make it...

Thanks for the help guys certainly learned something today and have a starting point that I can play around with, im a press operator turned pre-press/digital so I do not know a ton about how to solve issues like these! I appreciate you all, I am always wanting to learn more!

Joe, thanks, I changed that setting to automatic how you have it and it did not fix the issue.

Appreciate the help guys...So this has happened to us maybe 6-8 times we have had to reprint the job, basically trying to find out if its something that we are doing or something in the original artwork that is causing the problem. I have attached 2 files here, one shows the blue bar at the...

We get most of our files "print ready" but sometimes I have to put in indesign to resize for white borders. Every now and then we get a job where the knockout does not show when pitstop is opened. If I notice it I will have to click on the type and make it overprint/knockout. Sometimes it is...