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Funny because thats basically the solution we came up with for the time being! Hey, it gets the customer what they need. Im still hoping there is possibly a software solution for proofing folded pieces out there somewhere. I'm thinking something like Esko studio for folds. Thanks again!

MailGuru- That makes complete sense and we also supply a mockup of the folding we want to the printer. They just have no way to proof it back to us to verify the folds. We also then don't have this view to send to our customer. Its the proofing back to the final customer that is the question...

Looking for input on how you proof folded pieces you produce. We do not produce folded items in house but do farm out some folded jobs. A printer we used to work with could proof the job with a partial folded view and the name of the fold if applicable (Z-fold, Tri-Fold, etc.). This gives the...

Does this happen if you line up new plates on a flat surface before mounting? One thing that can happen in mounting is if the mounter tends to "pull" one corner of the plate over the other causing the plate to skew. Especially shows up on large repeats. If the issues shows up before mounting...

Artpro 14.1 to Imaging Engine. Its happening in the export to Normalized PDF stage so not an Imaging Engine issue. From what I can tell the issue is in Artpro.

Macmann- 14.1 does have some substantial improvements in the new "imaging engine" mostly for maintenance on the RIP. Ease of use type stuff. Honestly if you don't upgrade right now I can't think of 1 new feature that is a must have. Other than maybe that it now has El Capitan support for client...

Shot in the dark not knowing what RIP you are running and if you are using Packedge. You should look in "BG_DATA_CUSTOM"

Should be easy unless I am missing something. Take a new 877 SPOT swatch and change the CMYK value of that swatch to your desired grayscale value. Paste that swatch into Illustrator doc., merge swatches, then convert that swatch to a process swatch. Your 877 is now a grayscale. This could also...

Couple ways to accomplish this. One way like you said is to have the black overprint the blue. This way you get a nice rich black and get no hollow area where the colors overlap. Also like you said, the other items need to match. So if the blue is the "flavor" color just use whatever the flavor...

We had this same issue. What we do is take the original file, solid works or whatever. Take the correct size bottle CAD and take that into the studio plugin. Slice it vertically and let the plugin create the 3D shape and save out the .dea file. Basically treat the CAD as any other vector dieline...

Thanks for the info here jeffkin15 that does explain it much better than read the manual! kewlbigdan- I would say don't get you hopes up. We spent the money on the connect module (pushing $10,000) and worked with support last year and got VERY little accomplished. Some things work, some don't...

I would be very interested in this as well. I have dealt with support on coming up with a solution in the past and they couldn't come up with anything either from illustrator or Artpro without some third party link. There are a lot of common sense things that you think would work but for...

I would third that, and go so far as to say that all you have learned up to now in your particular niche, you can expect to have to learn just as much to take on labels and packaging. The points above are just scratching the surface. That said short run labels on digital can be somewhat...

I feel like I should chime in here as I have many years experience dealing with this exact scenario and my take may help you decide the right way for you. I have taken a very similar approach with side work and shop work. Now I am not a lawyer and I don’t really care what is technically legal...

Just want to point out that both Mimaki and Summa have been around since the late 70's so my guess is they will be here in 10 years also. And even though my first Mimaki plotter (24" CG-61) was purchased before there was even a Mimaki USA they still support it. Summa I cannot attest to as they...

Colorblind- We had our workflow setup to output a right reading and mirrored output many years ago. What we found to work instead was to just RIP the LEN files for the CDI and just use the viewer to flip the view for verification. We found it confusing to have both views for QC, especially on...

Actually it really is not that simple unless we want to take a half a million dollar hit by dumping Esko. We pay upwards of $50,000 a year for maintenance alone and all we really want is the service as sold to us all along. And I agree that best practice is to wait on an OS and as you say...

Thanks Chevalier! I didn't see that KB update. So I guess the statement about always releasing the last day of the month "Esko releases the last day (sometimes there is a delay of at most 1 week) of March/June/September/December," is true.... Unless they aren't ready then it's whenever. I guess...

Anyone know if the 14.1.1 release is available today as stated above? Not seeing it in my software downloads.

Not sure how this is a good thing if the plan is always wait at least 3 months. We are still waiting to be able to use the new Illustrator! And once that is available we will be waiting to use the new OS. It seems we are ALWAYS waiting on Esko for an update and it takes MONTHS!! ALWAYS!! I am...