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I would say that the post print flexo would have had an influence on this request but it is more likely that it was the coverage difference of the 100% spot to the tint. If you have a large area of solid colour with a tint in the middle of it, most print processes would find it difficult to get...

I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would consider OPI outdated apart from people who still like time to make a cup of coffee in between working (no matter how fast your machine is). We artwork files and do numerous amends so on average we process every file about 6-7 times before...

The comments about Illustrator not being a PDF editor are absolutely correct. My comment would be whether you need to open the files in Illustrator in the first place. The comment that people use my PDFs for print all the time suggests to me that tey are supplied as print ready PDFs. Whether...

Yes. This is correct. If they are 1-bit TIFFs, photoshop used to be only able to open G3 Compressed and then it couldn't save them back as G3 compressed. On top of this, there was a maximum pixel limit which stopped you opening anything bigger than about A5 size. I think the limit is a lot...

There is no easy way to do it. It will take some cutting out (depending on separation of original scan). If it's a strawberry, I would look at the magenta channel for the red, duplicate that channel as a spot red channel and clean up outside of the strawberry anywhere that does not need red...

Are you doing this in Ink Manager? That's the only explanation I can think of from what you have said. Ink manager doesn't alter the data on the file. Not sure what it's supposed to do to be honest apart from alter it while the file is open similar to convert to process in a print dialog box

To say Prinergy is "not great for packaging" is to say "PDF is not great for packaging". It's a PDF workflow with a lot of tools on refine. What you supply to Prinergy and how you configure it dictates how good it will work with packaging. All workflows purport to be PDF workflows so does this...

Yes, you are assuming we are all using Quark/Indesign. Illustrator does not support OPI like these and for a more packaging workflow, Illustrator rules the roost. Also, omit for OPI is fine on a good local network but sometimes OPI is useful for remote working or working over VPN connections but...

Re: AICS3 into artpro & package - what format image files? I think you'll find this slicing that occurs is something to do with Adobe's PDF creation and occurs on JPEG compressed images. Only images that are uncompressed, embedded into Illustrator or compressed with JPEG2000 seem to remain as...

Re: Moire problem from DCS files Copydot Toolkit is good software, it wouldn't produce a moire. I don't think anybody has mentioned the fact that the film may have had a moire or was not registered well enough. In Renaissance, their is a module called Integrity which rotates and positions the...

Re: opaque golds overprint on kodak how to setup Are you printing to a matchprint or 4-colour proofer? Are you using Prinergy? I have an issue with Prinergy at the moment and have a call logged with the response centre. In order to create opaque metallics, I have created a custom library of...

Re: Creating a PMS Duotone in Illustrator There isn't a way of producing mulitple spot colour mixes in Illustrator but it is possible to have 2 or more fills on one object which is marginally better than having fills on multiple objects. I have done this with a black gradient on a spot colour...

Re: Illustrator and DCS 2.0 trouble. I would agree with MSD on the PDF. The trouble with .psd files is that ID and AI both split the image up into thousands of pieces when going out to PDF. This in itself wouldn't be a problem if no hairline gaps ever showed up but they do. Only yesterday, I...

Re: Workflow question regarding fixing PDF's Ever thought about placing it into AI and resizing? You seem to be over-complicating the issue.

Re: JDF for beginners I don't think it's as easy as you first anticipate. The XML in JDF is quite complex and you would need a XSLT to convert Filemakers default output XML into something structured to JDF conventions. This XSLT would be worth it's weight in gold and to write it would take a...

Re: Record your screen (Mac OSX) Ambrosia software do Snapz Pro which I have used for just the one project but it seemed pretty good. It's not freeware but it's relatively cheap.

Re: Tiled /Sliced images in a PDF The issue is with the compression I think. JPEG compressed images come out sliced, regardless of whether they are transparent or not. I think you'll find that a JPEG2000 compressed PDF image does not split up into loads of pieces. I've not experimented with...

Re: ApogeeX and Preps Obviously pre-press sales guys haven't twigged that this sort of salesmanship does not cut any sort of mustard with seasoned repro professionals who have lived for years in the land of a thousand lies ;-)

Re: Printing with a stochastic screen Your dot gain will be different and you will need to allow for this at platemaking stage if you have any adjustment controls at that stage. Although stochastic screening is considered more stable at different ink weights with regard to dot gain, it is...

Re: Kodak Prinergy vs. Heidelberg Prinect Ive not really had a good look at Prinect but I have used Creo/Kodak equipment and Heidelberg equipment for many years. It is my opinion that Heidelberg have a tendency to over-complicate systems and Creo/Kodak have a tradition of simplifying systems. I...