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Re: Duotone help... Here's a cool trick to get usually better looking and printing grayscale images from CMYK or RGB images. This works best on darker images when you're concerned about losing detail in mids and shadows. It involves extracting the Lightness layer from a LAB color image, which...

Re: blurry PDFs Is it mainly images that are blurry? If so, it's probably a View Accelerator option in Evo (that's what it is called in Printready). Check the Normalizer or Preflight sequence in Evo and see if there is a setting like "Alternate low resolution images for Acrobat". If so, this is...

Re: meta dimension poll Our Meta Shooter box is a Dell Precision 490.

Re: meta dimension poll Yes, we bought them from H'berg already setup. I don't think you HAVE to use a 2900. I'm sure they chose it because it's a big, sturdy box with redundant power supplies and lots of drive bays. (H'berg uses serial attached SCSI drives. Nice!!) They setup the RAIDs and...

Re: Recommendations for Prepress Workflow for Medium Sized Printing Company I'm with Brian on this one, for the exact same reasons he describes. Imagine making comprehensive technical changes to a PDF only to have the client send in a new PDF with additional revisions? Now you have to make...

Re: Should we stay with an HP proofer or switch to Epson? Colorblind, I'll have that image of Rael from the album cover fused into my memory forever. A true classic. Did you catch their tour last year? I missed it, but heard it was great! Thanks, Worm, for the input. Is anyone using the HP...

Re: Should we stay with an HP proofer or switch to Epson? Understood. We don't have a problem color matching on the HP 5000. Our RIP is Heidelberg Meta 6.5.350 and color mgmt is handled by Heidelberg Color Proof Pro. When we upgraded from PrintOpen to Color Proof Pro, the difference was...

Hey all. We use a 42" HP 5000 for our color calibrated proofs and a 42" HP SpinJet 5500 for double-sided impo proofs. (This replaced a 42" HP SpinJet 1050c that's for sale, btw. 30066 ZIP code.) We're very happy with the SpinJet 5500 because it backs up reliably, and we could care less about...

Re: Transparency Viewing issue How about changing the tint of the build instead of the opacity? Or, just change the build to 42/6/10/23 at 100% opacity. Any reason why it HAS to be transparent? Are there elements behind the build that are showing through? If so, that's probably what's...

Re: Ready to get OUT of the business ... I share your collective pain, and at times have gone further than just mumbling under my breath about how idiotic "designers" are about file prep. But each time this occurs I remind myself that each individual in the process shares the same goals, to get...

Re: meta dimension poll I'm very happy with our Dell 2900 running Meta Prep 6.5.350. It chews through just about everything with great ease. Have been running it for just over a year along with two other 2900's, one for Remote Access and the other for Printready L. Very stable boxes.

Re: Opportunity knocks Wow, that's quite a dilemma. For me, I would find a way to make do with less so that I could see my child all of the time. My daughter is the most important thing to me in this world, and not being there for her would not be worth a few thousand a year more. Not matter...

Re: WorkFlow's Hi Rusty. I love these "My workflow can beat up your workflow!" discussions. This one is not too fierce...yet. :) Actually, it's easy to understand why we all stand up and praise (and sometimes defend) our investments, we have to love them. They're not profit centers, after...