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No Title It's no wonder it's killing your RIP. Take a look at the number of objects that make up that background. Rasterize the background image! With PitStop you can separate the elements into layers (text on a layer, graphics on a layer, images on a layer) to get at what you need to work on.

Are you trying to use i1Profiler, or Fiery Color Profiler?

Cornish took the words out of my keyboard. Take a look at pressSIGN. Techkon has a solution that looks good. And, there is Intellitrax from Xrite. The Intellitrax hardware can be driven by pressSIGN. Any of these would be LOADS less expensive to implement.

Seems like an odd approach to customer service, but that's another discussion. It would be very easy to create a profile; just send them a profiling target and have them print it out. Then measure the target(s) yourself and build an ICC profile for your own use.

No, you're not crazy. They're not operating as well as they could. Yes, the devices can be self-calibrating, but calibration only brings the printer back to a known state; it doesn't necessarily tell us much about color. I would strongly disagree with what they are instructing you to do. It...

Erik, the density variation equivalent of 4 ∆E (by the way, there is no +/- with ∆E) would depend on the ∆E calculation being used and the color involved. I don't know a way to answer your question satisfactorily.

gordo, pressSIGN will use custom colorbars. The minimum requirements for a colorbar are a solid and a paper patch. You can expand from there. It has an optional interface that is exactly like a press console interface. You can build sheet-wide colorbars and use the feedback for press operation...

Angus, would pressSIGN work for what you're wanting to do? You can monitor performance and do curve adjustments with a colorbar that is simpler than the P2P. It seems like it would do you're asking, but I may be missing something.

I'm guessing that you're wanting to run higher densities (thicker ink film) to achieve more saturated colors. If your ink and paper combination can achieve greater saturation, then you don't really even need to use a "low dot gain ink". You could alter the gain characteristics with plate curves...

Still not receiving email notifications. I get them for topics that I'm subscribed to, but not for forums that I want to follow. That's what made the site work for me.

If you find that the colors they want to show are out of gamut, does the color chart still have value, or relevance? And, since this is about "fine art inks" I think it's safe to assume that they will be very demanding. I foresee great wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Aye. That is a good feature, though I don't think most folks know about it. David, using Lab is a good start, but you have to be sure that all of your apps are looking at the SAME reference Lab values. If one app is using PMS v1, another using PMS v2, and a third using PANTONE+, then they're...

Acrobat DC and PitStop use different Pantone look-up tables (if your color conversion is set to use the look-up tables and not the alternate values). I don't know what Automation Engine uses for reference values. Illustrator 5's tables are WAAAAAAAAY outdated.

I'm still not receiving emails for the forums to which I am subscribed.

The reason the resolutions are so high, is that these pieces are built to 1/4 size. Eventually some of these will output to 45 feet. mojoprime, yes TRIM is enabled on the SSD drive(s) (they are Apple supplied drives - the System Report indicates that TRIM is enabled). The drive(s) are not full...

Tried with a variety of down sampling and compression settings, including none. I can get low-resolution PDFs to write - down sampling to about 150 ppi, but nothing suitable for proofing or production. The placed images vary in size, but all are quite large. There is a background image (a tiff...

We're below the 200" limit. I think the largest file will be about 180" wide.

I can get low-res PDFs out. I having trouble getting something suitable for proofing. I had tried disabling asynchronous exports, but that didn't solve it. Tried with CC2014 on the larger machine, but no dice. We're about convinced that that machine is not running properly, though. The write...

I'm working on a project involving some very large document sizes. InDesign packages could contain from 6-700MB to over 3GB of data. That's a single page with 4 or 5 images. We're working these on a Mac Pro with 6 cores, 96GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD hard drive with InDD CS6. We're also working on an...

The simplest answer is that printing "linear" looks like crap. I tried it years ago when I first started working with CTP. Test it for yourself. Like Gordo said, what you're looking for is a tonal, or densitometric, response. A 50% dot on paper does not absorb enough light to appear to be...