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We archive complete jobs onto a separate Raid box. We tend to do a fair amount of re-runs and its handy to have everything there and bring it forward for a straight pick or minor change.

I have done items like this( naturipe 2 color logos with glows). I ened up creating a multichannel in photoshop so I could control what overprints and what blends ect. Was not an easy task - but then again I was given an RGB file to start with. Duotones would not blend correctly. As others have...

I work for a printshop where we have 4 prepress stations. This CC thing is making look at different options. What we have figured out so far after the first year its going to cost about 600 a seat. That is just crazy considering most of our work is just saving out pdfs clients can't/wont make...

Re: Graphic Designers job? If the pressman wants a new plate due to a dot or trapping that is not a designers issue. A signed color proof I am assuming has been given as a "goto" so then the prepress has to work their magic to get to the pressman what the designer/client wants. That is what...

Re: Graphic Designers job? I cannot believe this is even being asked. If you are giving files to anyone to be plated they should be G-T-G (good to go) things the prepress should have to deal with is trapping layout and the occasional hickup in work flows. If prepress has to fix your files...

I just ran into an interesting issue. A customer file came over in quark with a colorized 1bit tiff. It RIPed fine and the composite proof as well as screen proof looked good. When we stripped the job in Preps(5.x) and plated to a fuji dart 4000 the dots for the 1 bit tif where there but the...

Re: Rampage_White Lines In Imposition Files We get these white lines every so often. Generally we get them when rotating items in PREPS. We still have not figured out how to get rid of them. Re- RIP does not also do the trick. Baffles the mind- always on the job that is due tomorrow :)