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    The linearization of CTP differs per CMYK colors

    Thank you Gordon for the answer. It is honor for me. Today I have done as you've suggested. Mixed the order of output, measured on the flat table by one plate on it and remeasured with XRite eXact. Results are attached. eXact hadn't showed a big difference in halftone readings per color, but...
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    The linearization of CTP differs per CMYK colors

    Hello, Where could be a problem if a linearized CTP (with the one curve for all colors) makes slightly different halftone on the Magenta plate around 70% and 80% ? Dot shape is round, 175 lpi Angles: Cyan 105.000° (Cyan) Magenta 45.000° (Magenta) Yellow...
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    Who images plates?

    In our prepress department we have 3 persons for plate making and ctp maintenance only. They work in 3 shifts and the schedule is to produce plates for 1 shift ahead.
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    Prinergy Destination different from InDesign Destination

    Hi, I have experienced a radical change in colors when outputting from Adobe Photoshop and Kodak Prinergy. Adobe has reproduced the scanned certificate in grey-yellowish while Kodak's version was in distinctive magenta. Most curate colors were in Adobe version. I think it is due to color...
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    Getting Paid

    Thank you, Gordon, for RE:Print. It is very exciting to open regularly a new post of Re:Print with subtle and sharp sense of humor. Some of 'toons I still hesitate to spread out outside our prepress room. ;)
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    Training

    Have you a photo of this girl ? :)
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    Help with resizing

    Hi Jen we do a lot of softcover books scaling. Your workflow is similar to ours with the exception of the one step. After removing of original crop marks we run the pitstop action which puts crop marks to the document so far where is a little probability of any hidden text. For instance, 1000...
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    Book Spine Width Calculation Program?

    Try CheckSpine.js for Acrobat Try CheckSpine.js for Acrobat Hello, you could try this JavaScript for Acrobat Book Spine Checker at Extra prepress Regards, Saulius
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    Things I wish my boss knew...........

    Being right is not enough. You have to be powerful. ... but sometimes being right because you are powerful results to that: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2043130,00.html
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    Career direction advice needed

    chevalier, I wouldn't be surprised about Java destiny seeing how Adobe treated with Flex SDK leaving it as open source project under Apache.
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    Career direction advice needed

    Thank you both, Al and John, for response. I thought few days on this topic and googled for open source prepress developing projects (JDF etc.). Also I asked colleagues for their opinion. Finally I decided not to strengthen my self in a prepress as a developer. A large and middle printing...
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    Career direction advice needed

    we are pocket book printer. Our impositions for book covers almost remains same just a book spine varies. I looked for possibility in the Preps to make easer way to imposition of covers. Neither Ganging nor Auto Ganging couldn't help us. Internal gutters between pages must be set precisely for...
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    Career direction advice needed

    Actually yes. I bought that intensive training led by excellent trainer just to try myself as programmer and to get more self confidence in the job market. It was amazing to realize that I can understand almost all stuff and begin develop small utilities for our prepress department (a utility...
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    Career direction advice needed

    What could be good and worth career development direction for person with solid experience in a prepress and as Java developer ? I'm finished training course lead by Java champion and got good package of knowledge to start as Java programmer (core Java, SWING, iTEXT, Applets, Generics, Streams...
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    Fast book scanner for production

    Hi, we are paper back books printer and looking for fast, reliable pocket book scanner for scanning text to b/w format. Any suggestions are appreciated. Saulius
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    Converting grayscale image to C100/M100/Y100/B100

    We print a lot of varnishing layouts on a back side film with the Cannon W8200 proofer. Our customers supply us with black only pdf's (with vector and bitmap objects). Printed films don't satisfy us for the poor density. Light comes out through printed objects. We are looking for the solution...
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    Converting grayscale image to C100/M100/Y100/B100

    Hi, is it possible to convert a grayscale pdf to the image with 100% ink in all CMYK channels ? Thank for any suggestions.
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    Any prepress training needed

    Hello, my boss decided to spent some amount of budget to training of prepress division. We don't have any prepress schools, classes or seminars locally in a Lithuania. Maybe somebody knows any training possibility in Europe ? Thank you for any references.

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