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pixelpushin, Apple will be here for my lifetime unfortunately, they're like Harley are the worst product in their class but they have a loyal following. I'm not sure you guys keep up with IT as much as you think. This economy has been devastating to those in the IT industry, companies that used...

Keith I believe you've hit on one issue, that's the desire for PC manufactures to make systems cheap and the effect it has on the end user, so many use bottom end components. As I write this I'm using A Toshiba laptop, I5, 8GB RAM it had a 500gb hard drive when new, I got it to support Windows 8...

I'm using Windows anti virus products only with great results, I have a couple bad boy clients and I buy Malwarebytes for them but MS updates their product sometimes 3 or 4 times a day. No one does better, I haven't had any problems in over a decade but my life is boring. I haven't had a client...

Pilxelpushin my Windows systems update them selves, if they ask for a restart I do it. I also manage as part of my computer support business another 235 systems. Mostly MA Office, CAD, Adobe and Corel products almost all Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and I use a Windows Nokia phone. The billable hours...

I am seeing some newer RIPS and hardware just not having MAC support, our new Eco Solvent does not, you can use files from a MAC graphics application via hot folder if you format the MAC properly but not all the application integration processes for CorelDraw and Illustrator, one would think...

D​epends on the user, on a true Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 - 64 bit system the first time you put a drive in you get a choice and then Windows remembers that choice for the future, (use a Pro version if you can). Now if you buy a Toshiba, HP, Asus or other brand name system their manufacturing...

Stephen Marsh, you know better than that, there is a magic bullet, unfortunately it's always aimed at our heads. An unskilled but self important client can be our worst enemy.

Try and replace 3 or 4 TB of files from the cloud. I'll retire before it downloads.

sgordon I would assign the GRACOL color space to the swop files. This will affect how the ​images display but will not affect the CMYK numbers sent to the process

dabob in your line of work I could not imagine anything except a long document application like ID, my files can be 1.5 GB easily to 3 GB but they're not complex as in pages, the need for trapping or imposition. BTW those tif files are out of my mind already as soon as I get it open the...

Avoid using store bought name brand systems, the reason I say this is that store brand A says it uses a Nividia video card except when you do your research you realize they use the Nvidia chipset licensed to them in a card they have manufactured for themselves. Avoid systems that share system...

dabob I can't even imagine using InDesign for anything but long documents, I mean like linking files? It makes sense if you've got a long document with 50 or 100 images but not for much any thing else. An example of the types of jobs I do would be a 15 page 18" x 36" CorelDraw file with an...

wonderling it didn't work for me like that and I wasn't the technician a user with many years of experience tried this file I'll have to wait and try another one.

rich Apollo, we have shifted all spot color conversions to LAB and different RIP processes can be a nightmare unless they have updated to LAB

wonderings I bet the old CorelDraw files were (shall we say) interesting with the application based color management and poor EPS filters, (if I think about it I bet I can find 20 non starter issues until X4 came along). Quark was always a mess as was PageMaker but from my perspective I don't...

dabob, certainly if we had large page counts InDesign would be a choice but in reality I cannot afford for it to take 8 minutes to resolve link and font issues on a $500 - 8 1/2 x 11 - 4/4 brochure. The file I was referring to was just a brochure, after 8 minutes we got something open that...

prepressdork, our clients use all the applications but in general it's low page counts, 1 page to 16 pages. We (as stated before) refuse native files from all but a few clients. The Corel clients I have I built from experience over the years, which in many cases even they send PDF files for...

Joe I didn't bother trying to figure out what was wrong with the tiff files we tried every version of PS from CS 5 forward with no luck when they popped open in Corel Photo-PAINT and looked like what was placed in the ID document I ran with it. I did try Paintshop Pro X8 later and it worked...

Zoran I'm with you, I'm older and the issues I see are the same since 1985. This is why we stopped supporting native files for all but a couple clients, I use PDF and Pitstop Pro for most files, the real issue for use is that Adobe creates PDF files and then Illustrator PDF files which are not...

W​ow, how do you make money like that? I do a lot of grand format, signs, vehicles and some print, mainly under 16 pages and if my files were like this I'd go broke. I thought Adobe would have gotten it right or at least much closer by now. CorelDraw X7 embeds the font in the file and uses a...