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    Can I Change Bleed Margin Default so it is always 5mm

    Hi were are running Prinergy 5.1.2 When we Create New imposition in Workshop is there a way to set the Bleed Margin Default to 5mm, so it will stay as the Default, in other words where do i find the Preference to set and keep the Default Bleed setting to 5mm This is a bug that is giving my...
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    Screen problem with Prinergy

    possible solution possible solution I have been using Prinergy for 9 years now and we had a similar issue many years ago, we did some tests and found that if you use Maxtone CMYK 105-45-90-75 as the Screen System and EllipticalIP as the Dot shape this fixes the issue with the moire type patern...
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    W2k external Drive with Mac Fonts now on W2k8 fonts are corrupt

    Thanks guys but I was hoping to see if there was an application or plugin that would convert the files or tell Windows 2008 what the files are so they show correctly when a mac accesses them so we dont have to keep the OLD server running as we don't have much space for the OLD server. As per...
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    W2k external Drive with Mac Fonts now on W2k8 fonts are corrupt

    I finally updated my old server which we use to back up all the files from the main File Server to external hard dirves. (which then get backed up to Tape for desaster recovery) The old server was running Windows 2000 Server and the files were copied off incrementally to external hard drives...
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    Uncoated Colour Curves

    Hi Print Manic there really isn;t any documentation that I know of but there are 2 ways to do this. The option is to get a test form from your Press manufacturing company(Heidelberg,komori) and what you need to do is print that test form to the densities your Printroom wants to run the desities...
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    Linking 2 sites with 1 or 2 prinergy systems

    We are running Prinergy at our ste and my company has just purchased a new company and I would like to know what you think about running 1 prinergy system at the main site and having the other site login via a dedicated network to utilize Prinergy, campared to having 2 seperate prinergy systems...
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    older files from 1996

    Re: older files from 1996 Hi Matt what you can try to do is put a suffix on the end of the name of and try to open it in a program that nows what the suffix is, i.e. eps try to open it with illustrator and photshop or .innd try indesign or .qxd or .qxp and try quark or .tif and try photoshop...
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    shingling, creeping

    Re: shingling, creeping Hi Steve Here is the PC equavilant that we use, it is a creep calculator set up in Excel with the calculations for the total creep measurement that you put into preps as well as the page increments in millimetres. Hope this helps TC Edited by: Tony Collins on Jun 10...
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    Is there a problem with 'PrinergyRefiner.ppd'?

    Re: Is there a problem with 'PrinergyRefiner.ppd'? Hi Amanda To Check to see if there is a problem with the Clients PDF try Refining the PDF in Prinergy First to see if you get the same problem with fonts. Then save the refined pages from prinergy and put those into illustrator and imposed the...
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    CMYK Printing - Dot Gain/Curves

    Re: CMYK Printing - Dot Gain/Curves If you need to set up DOT gain at your company to be applied to your plates what you need to do is first get the INK and Press companies involved to find out what the optimum ink densities or LAB values should be for each ink as well as getting the presses...
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    Massive Font issues !

    Re: Massive Font issues ! Hi Greg If you are using a Mac make sure that all the Base system fonts are installed into the System Fonts folder. Are you using a web browser to get to your emails or are you using another application like Entourage as the email application. if you are using...
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    Green Plates!

    Re: Green Plates! Hi Art In the past we used Kodak Gold Thermal plates and had the same issue with the plates having scumming on them (greening as you call it) what we did was change over to Kodak Gold DITP Thermal plates and this issue stopped happening. We still had the...

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