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I recall - from my days at Compose - we sold an app called Star Proof - it would not only make the swatches as a PDF, but when we printed them, we could measure and it would grade the deltaE. http://michaelejahn.blogspot.com/2010/06/one-of-tougher-things-to-do-with-color.html

OpenOffice ? - sounds like a bug https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41271

Tim-Ellis - are the PDF files you are imposing saved as PDF/X-4 ? Or Illustrator type PDF ? I would have thought you could preserve the layer and turn it of for print and then turn it on to import to the cutter if you imposed PDF/X-4 PDF files with Layers.

Great article Noel - wanted to add that this can ALSO be used with SOFTWARE expenditures used to run the business.

Truer words have never been uttered ( or typed, in this case ! )

How so ?

what does "affordable" mean ? I mean, if the print job is 1000.00 and need to be re-done because to proof was inaccurate, well...I guess it is all relative.

okay, so, what amount of bleed does he think is 'normal' ? - 0.0625 on each side ? .25 on each side ? No bleed ? Seriously - If I am doing a poster - or art print - that will be canvas wrapped I might request 4 inches bleed on each side. There is no "standard". Years back, when Time Inc...

I would we tell you to stop that bullshit immediately, as you are wasting pixels ! LOL - No, but seriously. why do i need color bars in the PDF you send for me to print for you? I am probably not going to print business cards on a 3.65 x 2.125 sheet with your silly colorbars. - most likely...

no. there is no such "standard". Nothing that would be CGATS, ANSI or ISO - It is silly to say there is or should be. There might be many 'specifications' that are put out by manufacturers that request some manner of tolerance that they need for cutting to trim, but that is merely a...

might be specific, but that was not what namelessentity was trying to point out. a 100 page book ( lets a assume that is 100 pdf pages that are 8.5x11 lat largest, paginated 2 up on 11x17 sheets - so, 25 sheets duplex min...time 100 copies min - that is 2,500 sheets printed. Great digital job...

Well, what can I say. It only takes one miss-communication to do something different than the customer was expecting and lose that customers business. I can assure you that this is a common problem. In some cases, a simple PDF "thumbnail" preview works fine ( like when I am simply trying to...

gordo - you should know that by now, I worked in Marketing. For AGFA.

I was channeling SRGFGBSGD and asking absurd questions.

gordo - what does the I and that acronym INK stand for ? And how can ink be solid ? Does it need to be melted first?

I always wonder why anyone is ever concerned as to what the customers bleed amount is (unless it is too small ! ) - don't most modern imposition applications simply center the PDF within an imposition cell and ignore these boxes ? Most customer would have no idea what bleed you desire as a print...

Yes, indeed. That would help.

So, you are going to build an estimating system - what is a jobbing system - will it convert estimates to a production order and then impose the job - is that what jobbing means ?

We always had a standard answer for that question - "from countless previous experiences, every job that came in with a "i need this tomorrow, we have an un-moveable deadline" almost always comes back a day later with "man, this looks like crap, you need to re-do this for FREE" - so, we always...

Hi JB - I have never ever heard of some DFE or RIP that has the ability to "Digimarc" a packaging label. This is 100% in the domain of the label designer. So, unless you are doing the design of the images that will be used within the label, not sure your going to get a lot out of a Digimarc...