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Not sure: historically, the packaging has used Illustrator or Freehand because compared to XPress they were the best softwares for this job... ... but since InDesign exists, the packaging begins to switch slowly to InDesign, which has almost all the Illustrator features needed for the...

Why not move to InDesign???

In most cases, I cannot... ... but when I can, believe me I strictly forbid the text in Photoshop (or I warn the customer for an extra cost) ********** You're right... and trapping is impossible because of a strange crappy structure of the text in the PDF, and it's for the same reasons that...

No! never in the Print... Mainly because as soon as you find normal to have "limited text" in Photoshop, you will always find people who will pass the limit or have other limits than yours... ... and what's the limit? a tittle only on a cover of a book or a CD? but the cover is the most...

Yes, but Photoshop is definitely NOT a text tool for Print!!! So, text has nothing to do in a PSD file, and using Photoshop for text is already something stupid!!! ... and, althought I strongly believe that the job of a printer is also to try to maintain a good quality level in its production...

TIFF for all "standard" images, PSD for more complex needs. Photoshop EPS was a very interesting image format in the old times of the 80 MB hard-drives (and 44 MB SyQuest cartridge), and had one (little) interest with XPress untill Quark releases XPress 6 in 2003... now, it is an outdated...

Not exactly : a TIFF/IT is not a screened file ready to send to an imagesetter, but it is a picture-based file... ... but an unique picture is not able to render correctly all the elements of a page layout, (because a contone picture cannot handle crisp text and other lines, and a linework...

??? sorry, I cannot help: your PPC softwares are adapted to your G5, and G5 is faster than G4 (especially with 10 GB RAM), so you should not experience such problems!!! :confused::confused::confused: Me to! but I try to keep my DTP computer not too far away "behind with the times"... :rolleyes:

You are upgrading today with a G5??? so it is a second-hand G5 (because G5 are discontinued since now about 3 years)? ... or did you mean that you upgrade to a MacPro, which has almost the same look than the G5, and is often confused with the G5??? If you really have a G5, no idea... ... but...

Apogee is not very different than a Viper, but your 600 and 1200 ppi tests are obviously very different of mine... ??? :confused:

First, theory says that your HP 5000 ink-jet printer uses a stochastic screening technology (aka "FM screening") that lower the hazyness enough to make it invisible for normal eyes: that's why you don't see any difference... and that's why you believe that there is no difference... but you're...

Both! The theory is that in contone mode no pixel can be printed and only screen-dots are visible on the film/plate/paper... ... and I doubly confirmed the theory: 1- with my daily pre-press job: today, most designers are too lazy to search for vector-logos or to rebuilt pixels-logos in...

First problem: the basic issue with JPEG compression is that each compression - then each saving - destroys the picture a little bit more... ... so ONE compression in maximum quality will never be noticable, even by expert eyes or using great magnification... but some successive compressions...

AFAIK, (but perhaps I have a lack of english vocabulary) anti-aliasing works only for screen-display... I overall prefer not having type in Photoshop files! Live type is a real nightmare to succeed to keep them in vector mode, with black N100 only and with correct overprinting/knock-out... ...

Hi Vlad You say that Taipan 3 is level 3, so, it's like Viper 3!... does the Taipan family's versions "follow" exactly the Viper family?

Taipan... aïe! sorry, I only know Vipers (1.9 and 3) and Apogee 2... and I don't know the equivalence between Taipan and Viper versions... ... but if your Taipan is a level 3 RIP, you perhaps have a TCP/IP connection/broadcasting option? (and perhaps that in the future somebody will create...

Sure? Is it an Agfa RIP? And if it is an Agfa RIp, which type and which version ?

You can also try to put the picture and the text on 2 different layers: picture on a back layer, and text on a front layer.

Not sure... and AFAIK, Appletalk SFM are not needed to publish a printer queue... I have no experience with Harlequin RIP, but I have an Agfa Apogee RIP running on a PC under Windows 2000 Server and connected to 2 Macintosh: a MacPro runnins 10.4.11 and a G4 running OS 9.22. I bought my...

Yes, you're right. When the imagesetter is OFF-line, the Apogee 2 cannot launch, but displays : "Message : Printer in Pause. Il y a un problème avec le périphérique connecté. Souhaitez-vous réessayer ou annuler ?"