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Re: I could use some input as to helpfulness of these college classes, tha Re: I could use some input as to helpfulness of these college classes, tha Don't mean to sound rude and please don't take this wrong. Your profile states you have 20 years of combined prepress experience and are...

Re: I could use some input as to helpfulness of these college classes, tha Re: I could use some input as to helpfulness of these college classes, tha Good for your on wanting to train. As far a community college's go I find that they don't teach you nearly what you need to know. They are...

Re: The Puck Drops Hey plategirl another lady hockey fan.....Love the game my boys and husband play so I finally took learn to play-for- girls... whole bunch of fun. My favs from the mid 80's were LB and Jay Miller of the bruins. Went wild when they stepped on the ice. I got to meet and hug my...

Re: Ready to get OUT of the business ... The basic problem we have is turn over at our clients. We set up training sessions at our biggest clients; have meetings go over the hows and whys and then 6 months later there are new people who are just a clueless. The basic understanding of file...

Re: Perfect Binding Digital Prints Hi I too am looking into perfect binding digital print work. Have you found anything else out? We have Kodak NexPresses and want to bind short run jobs. I looked into the Morgana webb site and got the information. My bindery supervisor gave me the number of a...

Re: Write color policies I am looking for anything. That would be great. donna

I need to write color policies for my company. As of right now, everyone is doing a good job of handling files etc. It just has to be documented. Has anyone done this before? Does anyone know of a good source for information? I have to make sure that I included all departments. Prepress, offset...

Re: Placemat Printing Job I agree with Rob on this one. That is a pretty basic job. Is it die cut that is the issue or are they just plain square? I guess I am curious to know why this is hard. Where are you located? donna

Re: LCD Monitor setup for production Don and Rich I thought the same thing until I sat in his seat. He has an Eizo CE210w monitor and we used the i1 match. For some reason it keeps blowing out the highlight. The monitor is cleaner than it should be. Can't visualy see an 8% dot. When he went on...

Re: LCD Monitor setup for production Hi, I agree with getting and using profiles it is the best way. You can try using gamma control an osx application. My color guys us it all the time to tweek their monitors.

Re: Job issues within the shop djpaul, I do know that basecamp was being used by the intern that you had on site this past summer. You should have notes on file somewhere. Thoughts were to move to this at some point- getting away from bugz. d

Re: Tints of L*a*b* colours Can you create a image in ps and fill with % of lab color and then read the values. Is that what your looking for? d

Re: OK..gotta buy a scanner Thanks, that is exactally what happened to ours. The prepress guys were complaining about the funny burning smell. It took a while to figure that it was the scanner. We shut it down and that was all it wrote. I am presently working with Kodak to test out three of...

Re: OK..gotta buy a scanner What was the problem with you Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL, We own one and I have just gotten back into scannig department. My guys couldn't get it to scan transparencies worth anything. Now the bulb is gone and they don't do replacements. I was going to try and fix and...

We have a two pantone color image that we are trying to send from Quark to our apogee. The image is a border of one color and backround of another. Not sure where but the file keeps processing out. Tried using DCS2 placement and still didn't work. It combines the two channels and processes them...

Re: Any Apogee users running Sublima?? Hi Tony, Clients and sales love the way it prints. We have a few art books that we do that the shadows end up looking great on. donna

Re: Any Apogee users running Sublima?? Hi, we use the Sublima 240 for jobs that print on coated #1 stocks. We use 175 ls for uncoated. The only issue we have at this point is making the shadows on the epson proofs look as open and detailed as what we are getting on press. For us it is a...

Re: Flatbed recommendations Thanks, I missed that one.

Re: Eversmart supreme halo problem We treat our exposed film with kid gloves right now. Knowing that we can't get any more. We still use if for our reflective drum scanning.....

We presently use two Hell drum scanners and are looking at getting a high quality flatbed scanner that can do similar work. Any recommendations? We don't do that many scans anymore but still want to offer up the service.