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Here's my situation: When printing a paperback edition of a hardcover original, the paperback stock is more yellow than the hardcover jacket stock. Rather than individually color-correct each link, I would rather apply a curve to the paperback cover PDF to compensate for the stock. I can easily...

Looking for someone that can handle Quark to InDesign conversions of backlist fiction and picture book titles. I see lots of companies that advertise this service but all they are doing is a basic Q2ID conversion, saving the file, and sending it back to you. I need someone that will re-establish...

Still use it. Mainly if I need a PDF of a specific plate (specifically a text black plate) for co-edition printing.

Thanks guys. I guess a better question would have been: is there is noticeable improvement in quality when printing a 16 bit image vs printing 8-bit image? Seems that the answer in No. I direct illustrators to provide 8-bit images, but often times they supply them in 16-bit. They must be...

I am still correct in thinking that printers will convert 16-bit images to 8-bit before going to press? This would be for CMYK offset printing.

Got it! Thanks, All.

DCurry, we could just tell the printer to swap the inks, and we have for certain projects, but this title also required us to have the neons as part of text, etc. so I felt it was best to set it-up this way. Macmann, Spot Color is checked. This is a bit unique as it's not a CMYK file with spot...

Kyle, I gave that a shot and got the following error message when trying to place the link in ID. "The files contains at least one spot color than uses an undefined color space." I've attached a screenshot of my channels for visual reference.

Curious how some are handling placing Photoshop links that contain spot colors. For example, I just sent a book jacket file to the printer in which the Process Cyan and Process Magenta plates are being swapped out with Pantone Neon colors. All of the Photoshop links are set up with the proper...

I am working to get all of our designers following more of a color-managed workflow and want to start by calibrating their monitors and repeating on a every 4 week basis. The design team are all on iMacs and I am using XRite's i1Profiler to do the calibrating. What I am having a hard time with...

Is it (Grah-coal) or (Gray-coal)?

Thanks, Stephen. This is great info and helpful links. I really appreciate it.

For many years, our main component printer has provided us with Fuji Final Proofs. Fuji is no longer supporting that hardware and they are also having problems using that proofer with newer workflows. We've tried the Epson route before and have not been satisfied, so they are presenting ORIS...

Meant Pantone 552

Our current Pantone books are close to 5 years old. I realize this is pretty old and we plan on replacing soon, however, we just received a draw down from a print vendor for Pantone 522. The drawdown looked nothing like the swatch in the Pantone book, it was far more green than blue. We thought...

Found what I was looking for on the Adobe forum. https://forums.adobe.com/message/9097900#

I'd like to create an action, using Action Wizard, that would allow me to downsample all imagery to 72dpi and apply a medium quality JPG compression. I am using both Acrobat DC and Acrobat 11, and neither seem to let you specify the compression settings within Action Wizard. Thanks in advance...

Not getting very far on the Adobe forum, so I figured I would post here as well. https://forums.adobe.com/inbox It seems to be specific to CC 2015 and Windows servers using Xtremez-IP.

Thanks, abc. I'll send you something tomorrow.

Please see the attached JPG. The image on the left is a Composite PDF which contains CMYK+TextPlate. With Pitstop (or Acrobat DC) is it possible to create 2 PDFs from this single PDF; one being the CMYK and the other being the TextPlate (as shown in the JPG). If it's not possible in Pitstop, is...