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  1. Bill W

    License Infringement Letter

    A bit of research on the law firm representing this "company" indicates they are a reputable law firm with offices in the USA. The information on the signer of the letter indicates that this individual specializes in, among other areas, intellectual property and software. The letter I saw is...
  2. Bill W

    License Infringement Letter

    Has anyone seen a letter indicating patent infringement regarding patents 6,611,349 and 6,738,155 dealing with CTP? These seem to cover prepress functions done day and and day out by thousands (or more?) prepress departments / printers. Did not know that the workflow defined in these two...
  3. Bill W

    Java 6 or Java 7?

    I just fought this issue on a 2 different versions of OSX. My laptop runs 10.6.8 and our prepress department computers run 10.7.5 On my laptop I fixed the problem via the version of (Apple) Java that is offered via software update. To fix the problem on the 10.7.5 computers, with help from...
  4. Bill W

    Trapping issue with letters

    Sorry meant to say ...(as opposed) to when not turned to outlines.
  5. Bill W

    Trapping issue with letters

    Trapping Issues With Letters Trapping Issues With Letters I have attached a PDF screen shot of your letters trapped. I may be missing something, but it appears that a simple stroke set to overprint would solve this problem. My screen shot shows your art in overprint view with the settings I...
  6. Bill W

    Step-N-Repeat automatic in Illustrator Cs5

    Step-N-Repeat automatic in Illustrator CS5 Step-N-Repeat automatic in Illustrator CS5 While I am not an "action pusher", I am a big advocate of using them to my advantage, such as to speed up a workflow, eliminate mistakes, etc. For those that want to see how fast an "out of the ordinary"...
  7. Bill W

    Step-N-Repeat automatic in Illustrator Cs5

    Many ways to skin a cat, even though I have never have known why someone would want to skin a cat. The beauty of using a template and actions is that one never has to re enter the stepping data to step a new item one the original template and action are made, or use all those (great) key...
  8. Bill W

    Step-N-Repeat automatic in Illustrator Cs5

    Greetings Al, Yes I am aware of the dead time, this was because I took to long before starting the recording software and starting the action. However the speed is inreal time. One can slow down the action via the actions palette, but I wanted to show how fast the stepping is done in comparison...
  9. Bill W

    HP GRACol Matching and 7 Color Printing

    Not quite sure what you mean.
  10. Bill W

    HP GRACol Matching and 7 Color Printing

    I think I addressed this with my answer to #3
  11. Bill W

    HP GRACol Matching and 7 Color Printing

    Note: I will be cross posting this to the Digital Forum and the Esko forum. I have had some challenges with our HP 6600 using the Esko front end in regards to matching GRACol and exploiting 7 color conversions from RGB files. I submit this PDF file of my attempts for comments / suggestions...
  12. Bill W

    HP GRACol Matching and 7 Color Printing

    Note: I will be cross posting this to the Digital Forum and the Esko forum. I have had some challenges with our HP 6600 using the Esko front end in regards to matching GRACol and exploiting 7 color conversions from RGB files. I submit this PDF file of my attempts for comments / suggestions...
  13. Bill W

    HP GRACol Matching and 7 Color Printing

    Note: I will be cross posting this to the Color Management Forum and the Esko forum. I have had some challenges with our HP 6600 using the Esko front end in regards to matching GRACol and exploiting 7 color conversions from RGB files. I submit this PDF file of my attempts for comments /...
  14. Bill W

    Step-N-Repeat automatic in Illustrator Cs5

    Step and Repeat In Illustrator Step and Repeat In Illustrator With actions, Illustrator is a great vehicle to step and repeat. Years ago I developed a set of actions that set up a base template using what ever bearers and marks you create, then the actually step and repeat, that will step and...
  15. Bill W

    Simulating spot colors with flexo

    I am not sure what you mean by "regular" presswork. Some CPC's, including Walmart, via RR Donnelly, have defined specific Labch targets numbers that one has to meet when printing labels for them. They are the same as those in the IDEAlliance G7 How To document. The request for CMYK is to keep L...
  16. Bill W

    Simulating spot colors with flexo

    My question to Kodak when I discussed higher densities to achieve more PMS colors using only CMYK was, what happens to the integrity of my solids (CMYKRGB) if I want them to meet GRACol numbers. The color from the densities cited in the test in my experience would be too high to achieve a good...
  17. Bill W

    Simulating spot colors with flexo

    Greetings Gordo, I have been in the flexo industry since 1981 and have seen a lot of promises. I take all with a big grain of salt until someone can prove otherwise. We use 3 seats of Prinergy, buying our first and second seat from Creo. I also have heard the hype from various flexo oriented...
  18. Bill W

    RGB to CMYKOVG Profile Conversion

    Rich, yes one can control the naming of the channels in Profile Maker when making a multi-channel profile, as I found out this morning. I tried to check a pixel value between my original image in RGB and my converted to cmykogv version of that image. Before I used your trick the pixel I checked...
  19. Bill W

    RGB to CMYKOVG Profile Conversion

    Thanks for the information. Working this weekend on the finishing touches to my shrine to you that I started after our first meeting years ago in Phoenix. I have entitled it the nice, smart guy shrine. I hope that will do for praise. About the money - still collecting the road side aluminum cans...
  20. Bill W

    RGB to CMYKOVG Profile Conversion

    Greetings, Need suggestions on what plug ins can be added to Photoshop that will allow me to convert from an RGB image to my 7 color HP profile (CMYKOVG). I need to do this conversion before I submit an file to our HP 6600 via an Esko created Color Strategy. -Bill-

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