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What networking protocol are you using to connect? AFP, SMB or ??

So today one of my staff was sent this email today... and I thought I had heard it all! "Charlie/Dom – I think Lisa is on vacation this week. I have a flyer that we did for my son’s school. It’s in PDF format, but I think Charlie’s computer has the ability to un-PDF things. Let me work on...

Like most people, I am skeptical of the subscription model that Adobe is moving to. In the recent past, Adobe has updated the Creative Suite about once a year. I upgraded 10 seats to CS6 Design Standard 14 months ago for $269.17 per seat. I just spoke to Adobe last Friday. To get "Creative Cloud...

According to the Pantone+ formula guide: PANTONE Orange 021 - 16.90 PANTONE Black - 58.10 PANTONE Trans White - 25.00

You spent all that time in Photoshop retouching and compositing an image. Save it as a TIF or PSD, not a JPG.

Because the bun makers figure that you will drop at least 2 of the dogs into the coals...

Why is it that the pro-bono or donated jobs are the most difficult customers?

Wow Gordo! Thank you so much! I've followed your posts here on PrintPlanet for quite some time and I appreciate the knowledge that you share. -Thom

Hi All. Does anyone have access to any videos that may show prepress production before the advent of desktop publishing? I have a class coming in for a tour in a few weeks. I'd like to be able to show them how this was all done pre-comuter days. Any suggestions as to where to find such videos...

Thank you so very much for your insight.

I would try exporting a PDF directly from Quark and bypass FontWizard. We haven't used FontWizard in either versions 8 or 9.

I wasn't quite sure which forum to post this in... Does anyone have any experience with small CD/DVD Replicators that also inkjet on the face of the media? A few of our customers have the need for disc replication that will accompany their printed collateral. For some of the smaller...

I too have seen artifacts and unwanted elements show up at our HP Indigo RIPs when transparency is used in combination with spot colors. As it's RIP is not APPE-based it does poorly at flattening and gets even worse when it has to do that AND convert spot colors.

Generally speaking, AIT devices are backwards compatible. AIT-2 drives will be able to access AIT-1 media. AIT-3 drives will access both AIT-2 and AIT-1 tapes.

This is due to the fact that there are more impurities in offset litho ink than in Inkjet ink which uses "purer" pigments. the ORIS software is trying to reproduce "real-world" conditions.

Here is a link to DL from Kodak http://download2.kodak.com/16/8301/1/Preps_6.1_UserGuide_EN.pdf

Greg, Thank you for expanding on these points. It is really appreciated!

Yeah. I've gotten real good at button pushin'

As we speak, I am working on a file where the "designer" used an OTF version of ITC Franklin Gothic, a PostScript version of ITC Franklin Gothic and a PostScript version of Franklin Gothic from another foundry. WTF?!? And the InDesign preflight warned of 6 missing fonts. They are all in a total...

When I request a vector file of the RGB.png you supplied... Placing it in Illustrator and saving it as an .ai or .eps doesn't count!