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No, the whole document is way darker, not just the cyan. The colormanagement settings on the DFE atteched to the 700 is somehow mismatched. There might be a default 'darkening' enabled for RGB documents, or 'image enhancement' switched on (a rarely used Fiery feature). Try to convert the doc to...

I second what Joe wrote in the previous post. It's possible to perform complicated image editings in PDFs, then print those documents successfully. You just have to be very careful. There are three possible obstacles I've encountered so far. 1. Rotated images aren't rotated anymore after...

If you use a Mac, that's fairly easy to do; and Illustrator's scripting abilities are very mature. On the other hand, if you have a lot of jobs to handle, you might consider investing into Enfocus Switch.

We had a Mohr (Polar) 80 NET for five years. Apart from the knife and oil change, it needed zero servicing. A wonderful machine, indeed.

You need PDF/X-1a:2001. That's a perfectly flat, CMYK+Spot PDF which can be printed by your equipment without any problems. All the other standards might have RGB or unflattened elements, or both in them.

It's up to your inspection device. Every solution has its special elements which must be placed to specific places on the sheet.

In iProfiler you should use the CMYK printer profiling preset, with a large (over 1500) patch set. That will produce a Device Profile which can be used in ColorPro as an Output (Printer) Profile.

How do you try to achive color consistency? Please describe every step of the process!

Uhhh. You throw native .AI or .EPS onto Hikari? I think it is a no-no. Please produce PDFs, that's the perfect food for the beast. .AI is a native format, obviously not flattened, so it will always produce problems with Hikari.

Something strange is going on there. The text seems to be black, but it's defined as a spot color. Also, the page number at the lower side of the page seems to be a form (?) and has some transparency around. These mistakes alone might make the PDF larger. Try solving the above issues and make a...

Your late Fiery apparently was a souped-up version which had APPE built in. Hikari (without an upgrade) doesn't have it, hence you see the artifacts. Solutions: A.) produce PDF/X-1a out from Illustrator. PDFs will be a bit larger, but they will go through without problems. B.) Get the APPE...

There are the expectations of the business owner and there are the actual expectations of the clients. The two buckets not necessarily match even in advanced markets like the US or the EU. Many businesses don't realize that they could be able to serve their client base with a much lower specced...

It's time to realize how privileged you and your operations are. This 'new machine + service contract with the manufacturer' scheme is only viable in the 'first world'. In Eastern Europe only 70 percent of the machines sold and operated this way. Go east and/or south and the 'contractless'...

They just started to seriously pump up the idea of "second wave" here. They're contemplating about a second shutdown. If that will happen, IMHO there will be no Drupa in 2021. The whole virus scam is hurting the printing business so much, I think after a second run there will be only package...

I think this move will recreate the 'ivory tower' situation where Apple was in most of the 90's. Of course the IT environment is a lot different: Windows is rock solid, too, so there is no need to stick with a Mac because of stability, ease of use etc. reasons. On the other hand, developer tools...

Callas pdfToolbox Desktop can be a solution. It was around 500 EUR/USD last time I've checked.

That's the only thing (from the info you've provided) that can be considered as hard facts in the courtroom. I hope you have a log or something like that about problems, call times and tech person's arrive times. If you can prove somehow, that they broke the service agreement, you might get...

Parts of the machine might be valuable for some folks. I would place and ad on eBay on the main parts, before scrapping.

It was the same machine, but the problems it developed were not related to the BW printing. That was a 'damned' machine right from the start. After major repairs, part replacements, KM replaced the whole machine, eventually. The 'new' machine (actually a 4 years old C1085) was good, our only...

We've been doing a lot of similar jobs on a KM C1085, for many years. The jobs were black and white books with yellow accents on 15% of the pages. As to our experience, there was no downside of that production pattern. Of course, the C1085 is a different beast than a C1070, but I think the C1070...