Recent content by William Campbell

Well then you'd better talk to the paper companies before prepress. Paper has polluted fountain solutions since in advent of rotary offset lithography, and 10,000 sheets of alkaline stock are going to adversely affect conditions far more than one plate per unit. (my opinion, of course, but it's...

It shouldn't be too big a deal. I will assume each server has at least 2 NICs. I will also assume that currently, the one NIC that is actively used in each server already has a static IP assigned. You will need to assign another set of static IPs to the NICs in each server that will be directly...

You are correct, my error. I had my example backward, recalling an incident of the opposite: images assigned AdobeRGB processed with the assumption that they were sRGB. The people looked dead. Yes, turn that scenario around and the result is something closer to nuclear, precisely the opposite...

For RGB images from unknown sources, without a profile attached, your best bet is to assume sRGB. The reason being, most consumer digital cameras, though they do not assign profiles, are very close to the sRGB color space. And these days, these cameras are the most likely source of untagged...

I can't tell you how I came up with the figure (it's been two years now), but when I did pricing for our Epson, somehow I determined the average cost for ink was $0.003958 sq in. That was October 2008. ??? No guarantee that figure isn't whacked, since I can't rememeber. Maybe that helps, maybe not.

Perfecting must be centered. It's not a choice. The same as work and tumble. If you increase the gripper margin on one side, you are pushing the form toward to the tail, which when tumbled, becomes the gripper for the second side. So any increase in margin for one side subtracts from the other...

Screens extend four directions within the total 360 degrees; The "line" of dots repeats every 90 degrees ( 360/4 directions = 90 ). Putting a screen at 105 degrees is no different than 15 degrees (typical C angle). Even so, this practice of putting C and Y at the same angle is not unusual. I've...

Is there anyone who's upgraded to a different workflow and have a dongle left over that they no longer use? (the blue parallel port dongle). Preferably with the OpenConnect option but not crucial. Contact me offline - [email protected]. Thanks.

I couldn't live with the shorter file names, though I wouldn't mind having some of the illegal characters back. We dumped AFP years ago for the superior network throughput of CIFS (SMB). I popped open terminal this morning and plugged in the code to update the nsmb.conf. Worked like a charm...

Awesome! My hunch was right -- doing it like SFM does with NTFS file streams. It's cool that Apple added that. Just uncool when you don't know! Thank you thank you, so much. You just cut my upgrade frustration factor in half.

Yep. Went after all that this morning, got 'er all updated. Count yourself lucky (not having these in prep yet). This reminds of the first PowerPC days (and months of anguish), then OSX, Intel, now Snow Leopard. I guess I should have bought a new Mac a little earlier with 10.5 instead. I assume...

Nope, that's not the issue (we know all about that one). I have existing fonts, previously copied via CIFS/SMB from 10.4 Macs to the Win server, and the Snow Leopard machine sees them as zero K. All the 10.4 Macs can access the fonts fine, as it has been for some time, resource forks are saved...

Just got my first 10.6 Mac up and running. Looks like Apple changed their scheme for saving resource forks on non-Apple servers. Seeing lots of zero K now that my 10.4 PPC Mac sees fine, both Macs connected via CIFS/SMB. I see at the server, fonts loaded from the 10.6 Mac no longer have "._"...

Though I could see doing this transition, in reading some of the other posts I'd have to agree -- why only one platform? I would think you'd have PCs already, set up side by side with your Macs. We've done it this way for years simply to ensure work is performed using the platform, fonts, and...

I've not necessarily been involved in a large-scale transition from one to the other, but I've had both sitting on my desk over 15 years, both used daily to perform prepress. If we were 10 years ago I'd say you have a major headache ahead of you, but nowadays, using a PC versus a Mac, once you...