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Epson license an SDK to various RIP vendors. Some RIP vendors will use all or part of the SDK and may elect to use their own development in other areas. I know that Kodak Proofing Software can use various symmetrical and asymmetrical resolutions (360, 720, 1440x720, 1440x1440 etc) and CGS ORIS...

Didn’t EFI cover this when they were onsite training you? I’m just curious, as when I train new clients on the Accura MIS, there is a minimum of three full days of face to face onsite training and this would be day 1 stuff. Production methods such as work and turn are generally setup in the...

Sure Magnus, PDF attached. PSO Coated v3 measured using Absolute Colorimetric intent. Stephen Marsh

Here is an experiment… JPEG attached: Stephen Marsh

Would you like fries with that? You didn’t know that we served fries? Please take a look at our menu, you may find something in addition to fries that you might like. Stephen Marsh

I don’t see “cost plus” as being incompatible with “market rate” or “market leading” or “what the market will bear” or any other pricing goal – the “plus” get’s you to the market or any other desired rate! Without knowing your true costs, how do you know if you should even try to compete against...

Why not something like this (image attached)? Stephen Marsh

That is great, I’m glad that you are not hitting any conversion issues or running afoul of RIP/DFE and PDF spot colour limitations. P.S. Looking at i1Profiler, I believe that the minimum recommended swatch size for i1 handheld devices is 10mm wide / 9mm high (and a little less for the...

I just tried with the latest version of CGS ORIS Color Tuner // Web using the APPE engine. I created a PDF with 50 named spots. I then created a spot colour lookup defined as solid cyan. The first 30 spots in the test file were correctly colour managed to cyan. The last 20 spots were not...

Ah, that may be an issue… Is the DFE pickup up the Lab values from the spots and then converting them on the fly to the final device space using a spot colour lookup table of some sort? Is the DFE APPE based? At one point in time, the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) licensed from Adobe for...

What you describe seems normal to me! :] Epson recommend powering the printer off when not in use, which caps the heads and stops them from drying out. These machines “love to work” and seem to behave better with regular printing, even if it is just a small test strip or even regular nozzle...

What do you intend to do with the Lab based colour swatch layout? Print it out? Are you working with PDF files? Are you using a RIP/DFE at the printer? Stephen Marsh

I looked around the Adobe forums and there are some scripts for RGB or CMYK based input, however I did not see any for Lab (not sure how hard it is to change the scripts). As an .ASE file is cross-application, it should not really matter if the script was run in Illustrator, InDesign or...

It appears that the GMG paper has two versions, both with and without OBA’s: GMG ProofPaper semimatte 250 GMG ProofPaper semimatte 250 OBA Just as CGS has two versions: ORIS PearlPROOF Super 240 ORIS PearlPROOF OBA Semimatte 250 Stephen Marsh

Excellent points NathanD. Sometimes it is possible to “drop in” a different media and re-calibrate to the new media and the existing colour profiles will deliver nearly the same results, however this is generally the exception rather than the norm (however I have seen it happen before). So first...

Hi Markus, I did try the test files and I hit a brick wall, however my hope was that by providing test files somebody else may be able to help… I still hold that hope! I am hoping that ABC can make this a part of the free monthly workshop webinars. Stephen Marsh

Try CGS… ORIS PearlPROOF Super 240gsm http://www.cgs-oris.com/en/products/oris-professional-media Stephen Marsh

And some more: http://whattheythink.com/video/83659-what-pdf-20-printing-industry/ Stephen Marsh

Thanks Tim, I have pretty much given up on Illustrator’s support for recording useful action steps when compared to Photoshop, so I had not tested for this possibility and assumed that a script would be the only option! Stephen Marsh

I believe that if there was a PDF/X standard that forced CMYK/Spot only (like X-1a) however also allowed live transparency (like X-4) – then X-1a would have been left behind long ago by those that can handle live transparency but do not wish to be held accountable for colour conversions to final...