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Esko AE user here. We're trying to detect artwork with spot colors in multiply blending/transparency mode prior to processing for RIP. Is there a way to achieve this with Pitstop Action lists?

I have come across a project that uses a lot of opaque white ink screens as an effect on a metallic substrate. I realize that once we get on press we're going to almost certainly need to perform some dot gain calculations and generate curved opaque white plates. I'm thinking that if I invert my...

The Visual Culture of Color: A Brief History of Color Matching Systems (printmag.com)

A strange question but is there a spot color name length limitation for PDF, etc.? I've come up with 31 but I was curious if that was written in stone somewhere.

I've reached out to support and I've been given ways to make it work but they're far from ideal. I know that there are plenty of you out there with Heidelberg Inpress, Axis, and/or ImageControl. How are you handling the assignment of inks to placeholder colors in marks?

Perhaps I am very late to the dance but I recently received files with two Pantone colors overprinting. The proofs generated a result that looked pretty nice but in reality the opacities of the inks on press created a wildly different result. We very strongly push customers not to use these...

I'm told we're very likely to get a new XL106 with Prinect Inpress Control 2 and Prinect Inspection Control. All I'm getting about these technologies is marketing/sales talk. Anybody out there with real info and experiences? How hard is it to make it work with non-Prinect prepress workflows?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/heinz-forced-to-apologise-after-qr-code-on-ketchup-bottle-linked-to-hardcore-porn-site-10327313.html For those of you that produce barcoded materials I'm sure you've had a nightmare of something like this happening. I always twitch when...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/arts/design/hermann-zapf-96-dies-designer-whose-letters-are-found-everywhere.html?_r=0 I'll never forget his commentary on Helvetica. It was quite affirming to my own views about it and typography in general.

I cannot stand the new default system typography "HelveticaNeueDeskInterface". Huge emphasis on HATE. Wish I knew who at Apple to direct my rage. Luckily, I am not the only one and someone found a work around. While the article uses some extreme and ugly substitutions I have been successful and...

I'm curious what people are doing in regard to project management for prepress. I've been looking at a lot of ERP, MIS, pick-an-acronym solutions and "pre-production" seems to be a very weak area for nearly all of the industry specific solutions that I've seen. What are you utilizing for...

The man who turned paper into pixels From blackjack to binary code: how Claude Shannon’s predilection for probability led to the information age The man who turned paper into pixels - Aeon Video This is totally worth your time unless you already know about Shannon and how binary works. Amazing...

Not sure how many of you are aware of this but there are some incredibly good things available: https://creative.adobe.com/addons You'll need to check for version compatibilities and make sure that you have the Adobe Extension Manager installed.

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Perhaps I'm having a brainfart this morning but I cannot seem to the find the ticket that has (had?) an option to make all layers in a PDF file visible. I'm thinking maybe this was changed to "Update Layer Printability" in the Optimize PDF Document process for AE14? I don't necessarily want to...

Anybody getting word on whether a 14.1 release is imminent? I figured it would show up sometime around now.

The Bézier Game

I have a very odd request. I haven't worked in Pitstop in years but I am trying to create an action list for ESKO AutomationEngine. I'm getting less than desirable CAD files from a non-ESKO CAD system in PDF/Ai format for folding cartons. I'm trying to optimize them with AutomationEngine (remap...

What do you do to get auto-bottom cartons to preview correctly in Studio? The bottom never seems to show the correct panel(s) with a massive amount of tweaking.

The link on the Pantone site is dead. It's been quite a while since I've ran into a GOE color but I thought this system was very popular in Europe. I can't seem to find a library set for Adobe Illustrator, etc.