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Hello Folks, We have had a HP3050 for many years and a HP1000 before that. Our new HP5600 just got installed this week. We have the option to add a "HP SmartStream IN050 Labels and Packaging Server, Powered by Esko Colour Kit" So my question is, do we really need one? Now I love the Esko...

.... oh yes.... Scanning Barcodes. I use Barcode Scanner on Android. Doesn't grade your barcode but at least it tells you if your printing the wrong thing entierly.

On my phone I find myself taking endless shots of jobs, Lab readings and screen shots of settings or I’m experimenting with. Place the lens over a loupe for a quick and dirty USB microscope. I also use the Android App Color Math for colour conversions on the fly.

My concerns are the screens and whether they'll be accurately read by a measurement because they'll be a single hit and not truly opaque. I'm thinking that a spectrodensitometer will not work but that the platescope will due to the different ways they are calculating TVI (or at least how I...

Hello Macmann, Are you talking about the PDF export settings in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign etc? As I understand it IndieChrome happens in your RIP. You might have a Digital Front End server or you might use the on board RIP that comes with the press. Either way, you set up your hot folders...

Hello, Glad you got a workaround. If you want to see the JavaScript for the Acrobat Action Wizard, I've posted it in the non-PitStop forum thread. http://printplanet.com/forum/prepress-and-workflow/adobe/254340-scripting-acrobat It's not perfect but it might help someone.

Hello, I see from the PitStop forum you solved this with colour names as ABC says PitStop does not have the layer functions you need at present. This is the JavaScript you can use in an Action Wizard in Acrobat. Add (More Tools) Execute JavaScript. It's not ideal but it might help someone...

Hello....err....your majesty? I have an acrobat action that can do this. it's written in JavaScript. For this work the layer names must always be the same or follow a precise naming convention. If that sounds good to you, post a test file and I'll give it a go.

Hello, Now I am no expert on XMF but my first thought was this. Pantone release the Lab values to Adobe for them to apply to their software products and then Adobe change the values. I saw a lecture from a technical sales guy from X-rite and he was bemused as to why Adobe do this. However, a...

Hello, Acrobat DC is very affordable on creative cloud if you don't already have it. The preflight tools are pretty good. I just had a quick look at the Sipressa website. Looks like grammar and spellcheck is not included. Pre-pressa, our online PDF preflight service is built up to...

Magenta!?.... Man I need to profile my monitor again. I have no problem with Pantone. There are some gaps in their range but that's because they follow trends. They never set out to include every hue imaginable. I've had some jobs with SCOTDIC references. I liked the idea of Pantone GOE but...

Our clients get on screen preview for all their orders. The statistics show that these are rarely viewed. Our products are bespoke variable data templates. We develop the template with the client. They approve the board and colour from and early sample. After that we match to our own copy of...

I've been using SmartStream Designer from HP for many years now. It's a plug-in for InDesign or Quark. It's got some limitations but it is free to evaluate. For a short while you can access all the features. After the evaluation expires you can still use some of the features. It will handle...

Thanks for the reply Stephen, There is no front end for us. Its all done by "on board RIP" and the Operator. It's all think board so there is no tray selection. I can see now that there is no benefit here for us.... (phew) :-)

Hello Stephen, Well I never. I had no idea. Ok. I use PDF/X-3 to sent jobs to my vintage HP Indigo 3050 (... yes folks, it is still going...) Now we print 50% of our jobs on Coated and the other half on Uncoated. Do I go and duplicate a Acrobat Pro preflight profile and meddle with it or is...

Hello, That is really weird. I change RGB black to pure K all day long. Can you zip up a file as an example?

Hello, I have an old Mac book pro running 10.5 in the corner of my office. It automates my ftp uploads 24/7. The free version of Team Viewer allows me to share the screen on my other Mac running El Capitan. I can do the same from home too. (possibly from my iPad but I've not tested that).

Hello 2mira, Check out Coherent PDF Command Line Tools. http://community.coherentpdf.com They claim that the "smpdf" app compresses the PDF vector artwork and leaves the image resolution untouched. I have had some good results with it. Now, Command Line tools are not for everyone. So I have...

Hello Green, Are you using the same paper for both these jobs?

Hello Stephen, ​Hey, thanks to you I found the "create_CMYK_scatter.app" The least I can do is return the favour for all the time that thing has saved me. :-) You can add a "Run Applescript" action in Automator. on run {input, parameters} if ((input) as string) does not contain "18000"...