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EDIT: Just realized my title is actually incorrect. Some profiles have "Never Embed" fonts by default, other profiles embed all fonts. I have no understanding of font embedding etc except that preflight will warn if fonts are not embedded. Why would I not want to embed ALL fonts for printing...

Thanks for the tips. We actually already have been using polishing compound (which we got at an auto parts store). We only use it on parts that are submerged in activator or stabilizer. Have not checked temperature yet.

Thank you very much for mentioning it though.

Well, we swapped in the new plate material that we just received yesterday and no difference in terms of scratches. I'm thinking it's something in our machine causing the problem.

Were your scratches showing up the entire length of the plates?

Wow. Thanks for the info. Was your problem on poly or paper? We just reloaded plate material 2 days after I started this post and we are dealing with the same thing but these plates were probably ordered around the same time as the last couple rolls we just went through (we don't go through...

We are using Silvermaster 12 inch 7mil paper instead of the poly which I think is probably what most people use. Our scratches aren't really noticeable in the non image area of the place even when looking under a loupe. It seems that the image is getting scratched off but it's possible they are...

I calibrated our platemaker to counteract dot gain using a super old X-Rite Densitometer from ebay, some formulas I found online and an excel spreadsheet. After making the adjustments according to those calculations we were amazed at the improvement. We did some final "eyeball tweaks" for...

I'm getting vertical scratches on my plates. They are very fine, tend to be near the bottom of the plates and are so numerous they can't be counted. The problem seems to come and go in terms of severity but when it comes we'll see them on maybe 30 plates in a row before we start to notice that...

On the subject of the actual content of OP's spam post, the funny thing is we have both a 2 color perfecter (1 color per side) which is incapable of doing process color and I have a few years old Xerox J75. Many of OP's statements do not apply in our situation. After years of running black 99.9%...

ALL THE POINTS GO TO Graeme NZ !!!! After changing all of my settings to match yours my problem is finally fixed. A million thank you's. Thank you to everyone who chimed in along with way!

6 cents per click is all :) But seriously thank you for this long write up and for including screenshots. Some of my settings matched, some didn't but I've adjusted all now and I'm going to run a test. Just curious why you have ISO Coated as your source profile? The tech the came out and set us...

Haven't tried this... Messed around with it a little bit but was having trouble with pasting it into the black channel.

Link to psd file included... This is the file that gets placed into an InDesign file and then exported to PDF

When I select a profile in Fiery Workstation and then go into the profile editor where it shows the rendering intent drop down there are 4 options. Without changing that I went to the little black swatch on the left of the window and selected that with the eyedropper. Then I look in the upper...

Just tried this. Didn't help.

Thank you. I'll try this stuff when I get a minute.

Yep, yellow... at lease originally. Now it is not showing a level for yellow but if I turn off Cyan and Magenta so only Yellow and Black are showing, then I toggle Yellow on and off there is a very very obvious change in the appearance of the art. It is darker with only black showing and gets...

Workflow is this: Grayscale PSD file placed in an InDesign file exported to PDF in CMYK. We are printing the PDF via Fiery on a Xerox J75 and the large gray solid looks brown. Under a loupe we can verify that it is indeed CMYK, not just K. It is a 2-sided job and it is printed 4/1. The black...

We had 2 techs out here today. One was the computer type guy and he profiled paper using our spectro that he eventually got working. The other guy is more the nuts and bolts guy and he ordered parts to replace the developer, transfer roller and transfer belt (I think I have all of that right)...