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Have you checked the exported PDF in Acrobat, using Output Preview, to established that the image only appears on the black channel? If that looks OK, what is the CMYK source profile for the job in the Fiery?

If he's that new to print, he has even less of an excuse! In my experience, it's often those who have been in the business longer that are most reluctant to employ proper colour management, and have an 'if it ain't broke' mentality, and all the wilful denial of what's broken that comes along...

The ink formulas yes, but the digital colour books are now LAB values, so the coated and uncoated swatches display differently, as they ought to. Doesn't stop anyone from designing uncoated stationery sets using the coated swatches, then the client being disappointed when the final product is...

Hmmm, that's odd. The RIPping's done by that point - it's all rasterised - so I would have thought the PDF Producer would be irrelevant to how the TIFFs behave downstream. File naming issue maybe (clutching at straws)?

Theoretically, a 3200dpi imagesetter can image a horizontal or vertical stroke as fine as 0.023 pt (1 ÷ 3200 x 72). And as I understand Postscript imaging, any element smaller than the device's addressable pixel width will imaged as one pixel (0.023 pt). I personally can't imagine a situation...

Why invoke the print driver, rather than putting the PDFs directly into the RIP?

This is quite nostalgic, because it’s exactly what I used to do every day at a tiny advertising agency back in 1992, at the age of 17. We almost exclusively did black & white press ads for car dealerships. We’d create all the text and vector elements on the Macs, print them out at 400% on a...

There's no such thing as an Acrobat DC file, and DC is not a format or a PDF version (the newest is 1.7, which precedes the release of Acrobat DC). What graphic application are you testing, and where is it saying 'DC' for the 'default press setting'?

Maybe the 'High Resolution' transparency flattener preset would convert some text to outlines? Have you tried PDF/X-4?

You'll have to be more specific, answer our questions and tell us which suggestions you've tried.

Not all PDFs have an Output Intent. It's part of the PDF/X specification.

Agreed. There are very few reasons to resort to re-frying a PDF through InDesign at all, let alone bringing a 'virtual printer' into the mix. None if you have the original INDD document. Another thought - sometimes InDesign documents (and the PDFs exported from them) somehow get bloated with...

Which application? If it's InDesign, then I recommend exporting to PDF using the PDF/X-4 setting. But your printer may recommend something different, so it's best to contact them. Why is file size important?

What application and PDF settings are you using to make a file that size? Does the magazine have a recommended PDF setting? Have you tried using PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4? These settings will downsample images, but you're unlikely to see any noticeable loss of detail.

I upgraded on Monday, and haven't had any issues so far. And I'm also perceiving a speed improvement, but that could always be a placebo.

I'd be inclined to agree with this. I used to always start work on new branding jobs with Pantone uncoated spots, but more recently I'm starting in RGB. I wouldn't recommend that for a designer who can't instinctively stay more-or-less within the gamut of CMYK, spot uncoated etc, though. And...

Strictly speaking, your designer is right. Legally, content is the property of the creator (your company) unless you have explicitly agreed otherwise. Such an agreement rarely happens when you're an in-house designer in a small print company, but clients will falsely assume ownership, so in...

I only use them for greyscale images. You can't colour a greyscale PSD with a spot colour in InDesign, but you can a TIFF. Most of my greyscale images still have the the RGB version present, contained in a smart object along with some adjustment layers, with a Smart Sharpen applied. It makes for...

And there's the problem - all those poorly prepared files lead printers into policies that assume all incoming files are poorly prepared. You mention both RGB and the wrong profiles (which I presume means conversion to and working in the wrong CMYK profile). Doesn't the former potentially solve...

Opening a secured PDF (everything but printing is disabled) with Preview and pressing Command-S. The result is an unsecured PDF, but I dread to think what else has changed in it. Maybe it doesn't work with all PDFs, but it does with the first secured one I found on my system.