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After 15 years of faithful operation, our Magnus 400 Quantum with MCU has been relegated by Kodak to "End of Service Life" meaning that not only will they no longer offer a service contract, but they will not supply any parts or service. Being in a part of the world where it's not easy to...

It's a curve which adjusts the raw data to match the characteristics of the press, inks and substrate

Heidelberg Prepress Interface accepts the raw CIP3 files as input, the characteristic curves are applied and the Heidelberg proprietary files are output from Prepress Interface for the press. Curves are not applied to the CIP3 input files.

The corrugated plastic is called Corflute, it comes in thicknesses from 2mm to 10mm. You need to find a printer with a flatbed or hybrid plotter, most businesses that specialise in these will advertise themselves as sign writers or digital imaging suppliers rather than printers. You will find...

See this thread https://printplanet.com/threads/best-business-card-order-portal.278318/

For small quantities we use large rolls (44" wide) of 2 sided adhesive and a home made jig. For larger quantities we print and send out to a trade house for litho laminating.

Probably on one of these https://www.xante.com/x33/

My knowledge was gained through working with Brisque for many years, having to troubleshoot issues with little local support due to our location, many hours spent on newsgroup forums such as alt.print.prepress where many experts lurked, and by picking the brains of Brisque experts such as Heinz...

OK, so after doing a bit of research from old discussion boards, it turns out that you can in fact accept 1 bit Tiffs from other workflows providing you are using a TSP board which you are. However, re-reading your post it looks as if you may be running your entire workflow on Brisque, which...

Assuming that you are intending to use the Brisque just as a driver for the Lotem, to output from another workflow: The question is, can you even expose direct from the Brisque if the files being exposed are not CT/LW or NCT/NLW with the Linework file being a matching resolution for the Lotem...

Scoring should always be on the outside of the fold, regardless of the printing method.

Well Magnus is my name for this group, because I run a Magnus (400Q) while 59 is the year I came into the world :)

Silver (Pantone 877) can sometimes be more effective that white as metallics have greater opacity

We use a local screen printer to apply re-moistenable glue. If you need peel & seal, that's a whole lot more complicated.

It depends on whether you are charging a rush fee to deter customers from sending you rush jobs, or if it's to cover additional costs. If it's a deterrent, then 25% sounds quite reasonable, but if it is to cover costs, you should calculate how much overtime pay you had to pay, plus any extra...

You could create a Pitstop action to add this information.

We output PPML from Smartstream Designer for VDP on our Ricoh with Fiery. Note that the 3 files (PPML & 2 x PDFs) need to be zipped into a single archive, and this must be done on a PC. Mac Zip files will fail.

It wouldn't surprise me if Heidelberg had some customised firmware which prevented the machine being used with any rip other than Prinect.

Is your stock stored in the same room as the machine? Has the stock been in the room sufficient time to condition prior to printing? If the stock is stored in a different location, it should be unwrapped and moved into the print room and allowed to condition. Lighter weight stocks are...

The font in the page you attached is not embedded. I suspect that the font is embedded in other pages within the amalgamated document, but not in this page (which was created in MS Word) As the font is embedded in the document (but not in the page), the font is not being flagged as not embedded...