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This is kind of like buying motor oil from Generic mystery brand X and expecting (insert premium brand name here) synthetic max performance. Yeah, they're both motor oil but you better believe the people at (insert premium brand name here) synthetic max performance had quality control procedures...

Folding carton guy here... Yep. It's likely dot gain compensation curving getting misunderstood as G7. However, I would assume the G7 methodology is sound for use in CMYK+, expanded or alternative gamut ink sets. Of course you'd have to very carefully set your own standards to target to and...

Also still available through GAEBEL Screen Determiners

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Xerox isn't the only one guilty of this. I know of at least a few major "industry leading" commercial printing and packaging workflows that still don't fully support PDF/X4.

Back in the day when I was first migrating to PDF/X4 and from PS to APPE... the APPE RIP would occasionally just choke and generate an out of memory error. We'd then generate a PDFX1A to pre-flatten for the RIP. If it still choked we'd run the PDF/X1a through the PS interpreter. We had some...

There are various modules... Studio: 3D Modules for Adobe® Illustrator® - Esko Studio Toolkits for Boxes at least is actually very weak in my opinion. I only use the File > Structural Design > Export to ARD function of it. Studio Visualizer and Studio Designer for Illustrator are both pretty...

I was about to recommend those tools together. That CADtools 9 plugin looks awesome.

Brutally honest opinions... I have both Artios and Impact in my plant. Latest, greatest versions... Esko Artios is generally best if you want to integrate with MIS/ERP, Prepress (AutomationEngine, DeskPack, ArtPro, etc.) while Arden Impact is better ONLY for the CAD operator. Arden Impact can...

Call your local Fujifilm rep. There are constantly people looking for them still. I get an offer on mine every 3 months it seems like. I'm not letting go of mine until there's a truly viable inkjet alternative.

These are utilized for qualifying and aligning a press during install/assembly and I've seen the very expensive tool used to read these. It basically a giant CCD or series of CCDs in a box that hooks up a laptop and tells you how close to register the press is. The installer/builder mechanics...

I was hoping some database/spreadsheet type functionality is built into AE to build a list but it doesn't appear so. Looks like a lot more work is going to be required to do what I desire via SQL/Filemaker, etc.. What a bummer that the Mac version of Excel won't handle XML data import. Anyone...

For the curious here are some relevant KB and manual places to start: Extracting XMP report as XML file Create a smart name that will report horizontal size in inches Retrieve ink coverage from XMP

Esko AutomationEngine I've skimmed this (ESKO.com) whitepaper so I know the data is there for the taking but it looks like I'll have to configure smartname(s) myself for a "create XML file" ticket to generate from.

Reviving this thread. Does anyone have a sample ticket or workflow for extracting/compiling XMP data via AE that they'd be willing to share?

Prepper, This is the part while you laugh and cry simultaneously.

I totally agree.

Because it costs too much! See my comment above about the Heidelberg Prinect methodology.

Sometimes (I believe most times) perception completely drives reality. Anyone in the software and graphics industry should especially realize that and be attuned to it. Can you imagine if the real numbers had been squawked to the masses on TV during the height of the financial crisis? 15 - 20%...

Anyone who's attended university and taken macroeconomics in the past 20 years (at least in the US) should already know this about unemployment figures. The real discussion in the US at least should really be centered on wage stagnation and workforce skills investment. Fewer workers are...