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AND we happen to have an extra fuser sitting on our shelf... in the meantime I'm checking on your suggestions, arossetti

We are using a Fiery

Photos on my J75 are looking washed out. Normally we don't use it to print photos so it's just something I've lived with (mostly line art and text with small pictures). I'm working on one specific file right now and it looks fine on my computer but it just looks washed out when I print. Any tips...

1) Yes 2) My press operator won't give up his plate inserter which we have only been able to work with paper plates also I think they only upgrade we would be able to make would be to poly plates. I don't believe the DPM 2340 can do metal plates. 3) Ok 4) I'll check this Thanks!

Well, I'm looking into trying a smooth 50# text instead of the 20# bond we run. I was just quoted $23.06 per thousand for 50# Accent Opaque vs the $15.84/m or something we are paying for 20lb. 99% of the jobs we run are identical. Booklets -- all black over black, 20# bond, mostly text, some...

Regarding pressures... I don't believe he ever checks them really. Over the years I've bitched about things and have gotten him to check them and they haven't ever been off which is why I said I don't think the pressure is the issue. Paper seems likely as we are running the cheap 20lb uncoated...

We often have issues with getting nice solid blacks off of our Itek 975pfa. We use a DPM 2340 platemaker and paper Megaplates with a linescreen of 133 (or close to -- can't remember). Our pressman is very lazy so I often sense that I'm getting BS'd by him. He says our "press isn't made for...

For future visitors, I was contacted by another member with the same problem and my settings fixed his problem. I'm attaching a zip file with my icc profile, joboptions file for InDesign export to pdf profile, and screenshots of print settings in acrobat. First read my post directly above this one.

First make sure you do this. It might not be the solution but it will definitely save you some headaches In InDesign go to: Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance of Black. Make sure that for Printing/Exporting you have "Output All Blacks Accurately". Then, in your file, make sure all your blacks...

The black is just a box setup in Indesign. I'm working on getting an InDesign and resulting PDF file that I can upload.

SOLVED. See posts below. Post numbers 6 and 7. When I print certain files to my DPM 2340 sometimes the 100% blacks will come out screened (dot pattern). My wokflow is like this: 1) Indesign to pdf, 2) Print PDF to DPM 2340 RIP. If I look on the RIP in roam I can see the problem right there...

For anyone that might come to this thread also looking for a solution: We solved the problem. It was stupid. We were too cheap to buy the replacement segmented rollers for the processor entrance assembly (that leads into the processor). Instead we took the shafts off, cut the old rubber tires...

Nice trick. Next time we'll try this if the inserter is too slow. Thanks.

I just got done running a mixed stock, collated job that took 5 hours. In total I ran 1600 sheets of 11x17 1/1. Each set was comprised of 31 sheets of 20lb bond and one sheet of 65lb cover. We printed in Productivity Mode. When we print a job like this the printer to stop each time it changes...

We are a small family owned company outside of Detroit. Ad supported publications that we print in house. We are so small that everyone here wears many "hats". As such you would be responsible for: Operating the small sheetfed offset perfector press, operating the collator/bookletmaker, running...

Fair enough. As I mentioned, I actually know nothing about the KM line so I'll take your word for it until I see otherwise.

The truth is, I don't know but if I had to take a stab at it I'd say the C700. I don't believe Konica Minolta has a very good reputation compared to Canon's production printer offerings.

Interesting. So what I'm talking about is actually still having a hardware PC sitting right next to the platemaker (though a hardware PC that is 18 years newer), still hooked up with the same cords and with a parallel dongle plugged into it. The only difference is that the OS would be Windows 7...

Has anyone ever replace a rip with modern hardware running a virtual machine? I've considered throwing a modern computer together (though it would need a SCSI card, parallel port and serial port). The biggest challenge here I think would be that there is a DRM dongle for the software that plugs...

Thank you for your help guys. This certainly answers my question. I kind of wondered if filesize was a big motivation for embedding/not embedding in the early days. Sounds like it was. Dov Isaacs I've seen you on various forums before helping people on various prepress related issues so first a...