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Thanks for checking into this Dan. Happy Holidays!

Thanks Dan-pretty much what I expected. Just curious though, We've used Multiply with spot colors for years without an issue-what problems were you speaking of? Is this specific to OW? -Macmann

We recently took delivery of an HP R1000 wide-format latex printer. It has an Onyx front end with the ability to lay down a flood or select white. The tech told us to set the spot white to overprint and to "never use multiply or transparency... transparency causes problems" This seems like old...

Thanks dpierce-I'll have to let that soak in. We do something similar already. Where the wheels fall off is the various clear and adhesive passes. Not to mention gang runs with different color palettes. We would really like for the pressman to be able to easily recognize a missing pass before...

We were looking for a way to verify that all passes through the press have been completed. Often times we print with dozens of colors and not always possible to do it in the sequence of the ink palette. We've tried a small visual mark but this does not always catch a missed color and then the...

Uh oh. Grammar police! Unfortunately in this day of speech to text and spell checkers, people can't be bothered with correct spelling and punctuation. Sadly, a spell checker probably would've missed that incorrect use of "there". I have found a Google Chrome extension called Grammarly that is...

Thanks BobRym-that's a solid choice!

Our old HP Designjet 4000 has given up the ghost. Any suggestions on a replacement with similar capabilities? We use as a proofing device to show color separations, die lines etc... in a screen-printing environment. Needs to be roll fed, quick and economical to run. Color accuracy is not...

Great ideas guys-thanks! First step will be trying a higher resolution-we can go 5080. My problem is I can't MAKE the issue happen-it just shows up. Thanks again for the input!

Repro_Pro I can see why you answered that way-my question is worded for shizzle. We are trying to hold .001" lines and they are pinching up on us occasionally. We are running 7 mil at 4000 dpi and the results are usually outstanding but we are having issues with about 5-10% of films. A buddy of...

Any of you old-timers remember running film through the soup? We are seeing fine lines approximately .001" getting pinched up from time to time and the customer is rejecting them. My first thought was chemistry ratio or developer temp. It's hard to pin down and happens intermittently. Any ideas...

Perhaps you're seeing overprints in Acrobat? We ALWAYS exported out of Indesign with no trapping applied and let the RIP do it. Worst case scenario would be trapping a trap-that gets messy.

Ahh yes...but we are Responsible. ;-)

alibryan are you guys hiring? I've been at this for 30 years...it is ALWAYS prepress's fault. Customer's file is bad? pull out the turd polish. Or the ever-popular "well the last place never had a problem with our Powerpoint presentation placed in Corel Draw and saved as a PDF and embedded in...

That's funny-made me snort. Great advice though-on point.

What's Quark? ;-)

Very cool Gordo-thanks for sharing.

I have had multiple support techs tell me when I have an issue with a complex file to "just do it in Illustarator - it's easier." So maybe not officially EOL but definitely end of focus. They are heavily invested in ArtPro+ and it seems there are less and less of us using PackEdge and Plato...

I've heard PackEdge is end of life as well. They seem to be focusing on ArtPro and the packaging market. Just rumors though-I've heard nothing official.

Specctr makes a great Illy plug-in and the Lite version is FREE! They gray out the Pro features that you can activate by paying for them. Works like a champ - I've been using it for years. One caveat-on the free version, the plug-in adds the width of your stroke to the overall measurement - a...