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What kind of problem with your current workflow? What kind of problem with your current workflow? I just want to know what kind of problem your prepress manager have with the current AWS workflow? What AWS workflow you have now? Nexus? And why have a bad experience with AWS? is it because...

EskoArtwork Odystar EskoArtwork Odystar Call EskoArtwork to have a Demo for Odystar with Neo PDF editor, and compare them to Kodak as well as Heidelberg. You will be amazed how advance they are. I'm a happy customer.

All you need is Eye-One Display 2 to calibrate your PC/Mac Monitor so that they can display the color more accurately. It is selling $219.99 at Newegg.com. For the monitor, I recommend you to look at Samsung P2370 ($269), it's a very thin 23" LCD 1080p monitor. Also, Dell G2410 24" LED 1080p...

CrushFTP.com CrushFTP.com Check out the CrushFTP.com and try their demo. They are very inexpensive and can do everything you are asking for. It is for OS X or Linux or Windows platform.

Don't use InDesign CS4 to output Don't use InDesign CS4 to output We have problem to use InDesign CS4 to output PDF. Some images or vector arts got drop off randomly when you output a PDF from InDesign CS4. Same file opened in CS3 and have no problem to output. It's been a known issue from...

Xerox 700 Xerox 700 Hi Missy, I would recommend you to look at the Xerox 700. Recently, I'm also shopping for a new digital machine, so, I did get a price quote from Xerox 700 as well as KM6501. Although the sales price of KM6501 is much cheaper, but the leasing monthly payment is higher than...

Command Workstation for Mac Command Workstation for Mac There is a problem with the Command Workstation not fully working with OSX 10.4.11 or OSX Leopard. The reason is the updated Java. So, I suggest you go to Xerox Support site to download the most updated Command Workstation for Mac OS X.

CGS Oris Color Tuner CGS Oris Color Tuner Check out the CGS Oris Color Tuner too. I have 4 installations and they are great to match any profiles that you want (SWOP, GRACoL or any custom profiles). Their website is cgsusa.com. They are now partner with Xerox digital presses to color manage...

Adobe PDF Engine Adobe PDF Engine Hi michaelejahn, don't get me wrong, I love the idea of PDF for cross platform and soft proofing. They certainly a better format compare to Postscript. But I don't thank the vendors pushed the Adobe because all the vendors waited for so many years (at least 5...

The problem with Quark to PDF is they are postscript base software, so, even if you upgrade to Quark 7, when you tried to output PDF, it need to convert it to postscript first then distill to PDF which means you have to flatten your file. So, most of the transparency effect from Quark 7 will...

Drawkward, did you get your Splash problem solved? I'm looking at X700 right now and don't know what RIP we should get. I prefer to use Mac if we can. Currently, we have DC260 with the external Fiery rip, and it was okay but due to the slower hardware, they are slower than the CREO rip, I did a...

Don't use embedded Fiery Don't use embedded Fiery You don't want to use embedded Fiery if you want your Xerox 700 as a digital press. It is just like a regular color printer/copier if you use embedded Fiery since you can't adjust color, calibrate it to match SWOP, it's very slow to process the...

Great workflow from Odystar Great workflow from Odystar I've been using over a year and love it. So far, we can customize any automation we wanted and it's been solid stable because it's using OSX server. Support from EskoArtwork is very good and got response the same day we request it. I have...

We tried everything We tried everything Gordo, I'm saying in my experience and I think I was not alone. We tried many different ways and eliminate all other control issue. Call service to calibrate our Screen platesetting, clean the lasers, clean the processor, use new chemical...

Fuji vs Kodak plate again Fuji vs Kodak plate again Any reason why you switch to Sword plate from Fuji plate? I did a test on concentric screening on the Sword plate and the plate never can deliver the consistent result. It is really a piece of trash if you want to print something over 200 lpi...