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    Guide to Buying New Digital Equipment

    Canon 6010 Canon 6010 How is it going so far with the Canon? were just about to sign for the 6010vp with the oce rip to replace our Xerox 5000 Cheers Ron
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    CS5 Thumbnails

    Help!! even after installing a clean CS5 on to windows vista I still have the problem that, all my icons show just for example the acrobat icon, not an associated thumbnail. I have tried everything but to no avail. The thumbnails all show up in CS5 bridge but not as image icons in Vista. We have...
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    Hi, did you benchtest the 7010? results?? Thanks Ron

    Hi, did you benchtest the 7010? results?? Thanks Ron
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    Leasing Company

    Whatever you decide try to haggle the directors guarantee down in terms, digital presses have a habit of not doing what the sale reps have told you it would at some point and the last thing you need is a bad leasing company that want payment directly for YOU if something goes bad.
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    OCE CS665 grainy grays

    Most digital presses are the same with grays best thing to do is try running on a 150 screen rather than the 200 default, it makes it look more open and like a true film screen Good luck
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    W2P websites

    Web to Print Web to Print Hey guys, we started using a company called Onprintshop about six months ago, no upfront layout and no click based maintenance contracts. $200 per month. great set of features, online designer, easy to understand back end. The initial downside was that the company is...
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    Xerox woes!

    Xerox colour problems Xerox colour problems Hi guys, unless you have an engineer there to re adjust the voltages in the smile curve to get edge to edge colour AND and air condition humidity controled room AND use stock from the same batch you will never get constant colour with any xerographic...
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    Banding on vignettes - KM5501 - Embedded Fiery

    Good luck Natty, we have had five digital presses and they all suffer with banding in the vignettes, you can minimise it though by trying different profiles or adding a little noise to the image.
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    DC 250 Yellow code marks

    Yellow dots Yellow dots Sorry dude but the guys are right, here in the UK its the same, basically if you were to create fake bank notes or mot forms etc they could read the dot pattern and give you a call as each one is unique. One thing though, although its a bitch on gloss and silk papers we...
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    PDF multiple pages insert in illustrator

    You cant do it in Illustrator you have to do it in indesign, the easiest way I have found is to select all the pdf's from the bridge and drag to indesign then you can cycle through all the pdf's by using the arrow keys before dropping using the enter key.
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    Printing solid images to a DocuColor

    Why would you be trying to print in 2400 dpi? what are the source files for that dpi. We have been using a DC5000 alongside other machines for about three years now and I have to say even when playing around with machine dpi, custom screens and stochastic screens, I dont think anyting will...
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    Watkiss spinemaster problem

    Hi does anyone know what settings the Siemens program unit needs to have? We have an issue where the timing is out, when you select bypass mode where the book processes and then drops through, the gate is already closed underneath when the clamps reopen. Thanks in advance Ron
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    Plate shifting with xerox dc5000ap digital press

    Hi, we have had the out of sync colours it was caused by toner clouding inside and generally messing up the silver registration patches on the underside of the ibt belt. Hope you sort it
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    Digital press for 350gsm?

    For what its worth, we have tried all the low cost options, xante, oki, xpress on demand etc and none have the consistancy of colour or registration, some can even print certain colours such as dark blue without mottling, its down to how strong a charge they can generate. Then you have the...
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    Xmpie help

    Hi Jason, yes thats bang on! database currently just has a list of names, we are generating images from directype ?
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    Xmpie help

    Hi, thanks for responding, yes thats exactly what we are doing, I have found a way round it to rename using the batch command in adobe bridge? so my folder is full of for instance fred1.jpg fred2.jpg fred3.jpg for the january, feb, march months etc and then the next persons name....long winded...
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    Xmpie help

    I Cant for the life of me remember how to do this can somebody please help? I am creating personalised jpegs from directtype and want to drop them into personalised calendars in indesign using xmpie. I can use uimage fine and the images change no problem but this needs a string or something to...
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    Any experience running 9x12 envelopes digitally?

    We have a brand in the uk called comunique, I run them through our xerox 250 with no problems, every other brand wrinkled.
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    Xmpie help

    I guess its like using a sledge to crack a wallnut but we regularly need to print databases full of different labels. How the hell do you get xmpie to fill a sheet with different ones? The problem is the way the labels are laid up on the die cut sheets, I need to create an A3 sheet with all the...
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    XMPie crashing Indesign

    Hi, I have been told the very latest Xmpie is only CS4 compatible? I was warned when we upgraded. Try going back to the previous version? Hope you get it fixed

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