Search results

Do you want the colour or do you want the values? Very rarely can you have both. Going only by numbers is like boiling an egg by a clock… as long as you are exactly at the same altitude it will be boiled the way you want… but go up a mountain and it will be too soft put it in a pressure...

What font? I remember (vaguely) that there was one or two fonts that needed to be uploaded to RIP, (or available in Distiller). Can't remember the fonts though. Don't have any PageMaker compatible system anymore. Usually its a licence issue. If not there are software like TransType (Fontlab...

Not sure if I agree with attatchment over 6 paragraphs (don't know I write that many). But I find it irritating to have unnecessary attatchments when it could just have been included in the body of the email.

It sounds like it could be an overprint problem, or a spot colour problem. All effects in Illustrator can be printed, even if it is important to make sure that raster effects are set to the appropriate setting (300 ppi). Use the separation preview and transparency flattener to locate the problem...

Had a Quato monitor, but then I changed job… having consistent colour that doesn't depend on view angle when a client is next to you is great. Also have their printer calibration software (iColorPrint) does what it should do no hassles.

Secondary and tertiary colours at 100% is beyond control of prepress, so I do hope pressman (even if a dead press does not) takes responsibility for his/her part in creating (actually in press we block/filter out colour, not create it) colour. CMYK values are only valid with an output intent...

% is relative, So 50% of a colour has no meaning if you don't know the colour (including the intensity/luminosity of black). 50% of a black on one paper may be the same appearance as 60% of another black in another printing device/substrate, this is the reason for colour management. Defining the...

As Magpie says better to move place the photoshop in a vector program if your goal is vectors. Smart objects are rendered in the current ppi, as are text objects with effects.

Haha everything moving to the cloud even the monitors :D But seriously how long have you had them till they show cloud pattern? Also it's not difficult to connect and external to an iMac (You can easily run email, imposition, workflow management and webrowsing even with an older monitor) In my...

I remember some years back (5) that PDFx1a gave superior results to PDFx4 int the Agfa workflow, they resolved those issues after some patch releases. I think you should report it to may technicians look into fixing th problem.

Have you tried making it a Spot colour in Illy and then using Acrobat or RIP to convert to CMYK?

Would it be stupid to suggest that you place the image behind, the spot gradient in the front with an overprint if it is spot (I believe you said it was originally multiply so if CMYK Multiply the gradient over image. For multiply stacking order isn't important), even if you print it first that...

@matt I know Illustrator is not a PDF editor but there isn't really anything like the recolour artwork in Acrobat. But now that the actual problem is more defined then I see it is not what was asked for. Seems like OP wants to export composite Excluding CMYK plates. This is normally done in RIP...

But if it is colour it is information? Have you tried the recolour artwork function in Illustrator? You can use it to reduce the number of colours of any work to 1 or 2 spot colours and specify how you want the colours to remap. I suppose you could remap some colours to 0 0 0 0 if that is what...

The size of pixels should not affect the colour. The screen(LPI) can affect the colour if it affects the dot gain, but it the dot gain curves are done to get the same TVI, and are linked to the screens then the screen will not affect the colour. The thickness of an envelope can affect the...

Yes there is a setting if you have inRIP trapping where you can set trap vector-image, image-image and within image. It will slow the RIP down, but if you have redundant time some part of the night you can queue the job to RIP then. I've done that on jobs with large runs on flimsy stock to make...

Sounds like a design not intended for the real world. The in rip trapping can be activated to behave the same for vector and pixel. If you are using inDesign you can add create a manual "trap" by adding an "outer glow" with CMYK 0/0/0/100 (or drop shadow with 0/0 offset and lighten blend mode)...

One reason for sending an Illustrator file instead of a PDFx is that if there are feathering or other rendered effects then the file is not scalable. The Illustrator file would not be truly scalable outside of illustrator if there are areas that are rasterised (drop shadows, gaussian blurs...

It the segmenting is because you go via postscript and distiller. You must not resample either in making PS or in Distiller. PDFx4 is best if you need to do just in time fixing. But photoshop text is not true vector, but rather a vector mask on a pixel background. You would benefit from an...

Yes we had the service people replace the meter and it worked great.