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Our bread and butter is book work ie. conventional offset stuff. But over the past few years our packaging business has grown quite a lot. We have purchased a couple of licenses of Pandora, Kodak's packaging layout application, and use our DXF/CF2 files from ArtiosCAD in Pandora to make our...

The prepress department is happy with Kodak, but management is looking at "cheaper" alternatives. It may very well be that Esko has gained an edge on Kodak in recent years though I've never known anyone to run Esko and the only experience I have with Esko products is ArtiosCAD.

Our company is currently using the Kodak workflow for all of our prepress work but they're exploring changing over to Esko. Can anyone offer any pros & cons for switching? We are heavy into conventional & packaging work. We also do some large format and flexo. We use Prinergy, Pandora, Preps...

Okay, so sounds like if we were staying with Konica machines there's a possibility they would work but not if we jump to another manufacturer. Was hoping it would be possible to save a good chuck of change. Thanks for your response.

My shop is looking into a new digital press. We're taking a look at pretty much all the options that fit our needs. The new machine will fill the role of our current Konica c7000. We have a Fiery Pro80 server hooked up to the Konica at the moment but we're hoping that we will be able to move...

For anyone following this topic, I have found a way to get this to work. In XMPie uDirect when you are creating conditional formatting for a field you can check the "extended functions" box to get many more functions to use other than the default few that are available. In the extended...

Just an update. I have found how to get the spacing to work how I wanted it to. Here's the link to the site where I found it. It provides some good examples of conditional functions for uDirect. XMPie Overview I used the instructions in the first example. But I'm still trying to figure...

I'm trying to achieve something with uDirect that I think should be possible but I'm not sure how it should be done. I have a client that has a basic excel spreadsheet with about 30 names. Some of the people in the list of cell phones while others dont. Some of them have middle names while...