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    Gaining colour consistency between offset/digital/proofing

    Hey all, long time reader, never really posted. I'm a lone Prepress Op at a smallish printing firm in Aus. Our presses consist of Heidelberg 5 col. SM52, 2 col. PM74, and one HP Indigo 3500 (soon to be 7600). We also have a Xerox Color 1000. For proofing, we have two Epson Stylus Pro 7900s. Our...
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    Considering a switch from a Mac to a PC workflow

    Thanks for the responses! We have definitely taken into consideration a lot of those questions rich! Our pre-press/digital colour department is small (one Indigo operator, two pre-press staff, one looks after offset, the other digital + VDP.) A switch would not affect staff in any way, as both...
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    Print-ready pdfs - shadows around linked .psd files

    Yes, but trapping is not done automatically when you export. AFAIK, trapping needs to be done through the pathfinder, or manually. We have had similar thing to this happen as well when exporting from Illustrator, and changing compression and downsampling settings didn't do a thing...
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    Considering a switch from a Mac to a PC workflow

    Hi guys, See title... Our focus in the colour area is a fair split between digital and offset printing. With the digital side consisting of approximately 50% VDP and the rest standard run stuff, flyers/brochures, annual reports, etc etc... The companies main focus though is in programming...
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    Cockpit/Signa on Leopard 10.6.6

    Hi all, I know this has been posted here a bit, but I checked the threads and couldn't find any issues similar to mine. Running Tiger on one Mac (cockpit/signa work fine) and Leopard on the other. On the Leopard machine, when I fire Cockpit up it just hangs (doesn't even reach the login...
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    XMPie Variable maps

    Hey guys, Just wanting to know how I go about doing variable maps using the Google Maps API? I've seen it done for a lot of campaigns in the US, not many have done it throughout Australia though. Interested to know how it works if anyone can help?! Cheers =)
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    XMPie crashing Indesign

    Nah we were getting this same issue with the previous version of XMPie, after I called tech support about the issue they suggested downloading the latest version. Still no luck heh.
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    XMPie crashing Indesign

    Hey there, hoping I can get an idea of what's going wrong here. We've had a couple of jobs recently where we are making quite heavy use of PSD files and actions etc. It all works fine, the job is 8000 run, but it seems I can't create PPML files of more than 10 or so records at a time. Anything...
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    XMPie query regarding variable images...

    Thanks so much Brett. I've only really dealt with uDirect and the standard text and visibility types, so knowing how the graphic function works is good :) Thanks again!
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    XMPie query regarding variable images...

    Hey, I'll get straight to the point :) I have 7500 names, with 7500 pictures of each person. The pictures can be named the same as the file name to do this if you like... Just wondering how I can get this to work? I need XMPie to be looking at a particular folder, compare |->First_Name &...

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