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    Sheet scans

    How often should a sheet be pulled and scanned on a 4-color press running about 5000 an hour? What's a "normal" average? Just for density\color and TVI monitoring throughout the day? Does run length matter? Shorter runs get pulled more often? Longer runs less often? Thanks
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    Add a page to the end of a bunch of PDF files

    I have 469 PDF text files that I need to add 1 ID page to the end of each file. I have 469 individual ID pages. Is there a way with Acrobat Pro DC to batch this? Or some other means to do it? Any input appreciated, Thanks
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    Static?

    We're having tremendous problem trying to get sheets to feed into our folder. Humidity had got really low due to 2 weeks of single digit temps here, but it's coming up some now inside, with our humidifiers and some make shift measures running full time. Its a Stahl folder with the feed table...
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    Ecomaxx plates and FM screening

    Does anyone here have any experience running FM or stochastic screening with the Ecomaxx plates? We run them on our web for text only, tried them on our Heideberg a few years back and had several issues, not all were plate related though, and are trying them again but since last time we have...
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    How to locate italics in PDF files?

    Anyone know of a way to locate all italics in a PDF? We have a large number of legacy files we're converting to digital by OCR, save as .rtf, place into Indesign and format. Works well but all formatting has to re-applied to prep them for importing into our system and the most time consuming...
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    Recycle old film negatives

    Anyone know of where we could recycle our old film negatives these days? Thanks
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    Lightfast inks

    We are having trouble reprinting a job that we've successfully printed in 2009 and reprinted in 2014. We used lightfast inks and are printing on our half-size Heidelberg. These are photos of 8x10, 11x14 and 16x20. Original 2009 printing was regular 175lpi screening, 2014 reprint was FM screening...
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    Preps and El Capitan

    OK, nevermind, just got it fixed, required Java 6 instead of 8 apparently. Ok, just upgraded Preps to v7.5 so I can upgrade my desktop to El Capitan now but when I start Preps I get a message saying, "To use the “java” command-line tool you need to install a JDK." and click in there for...
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    Copying and pasting text into Photoshop

    We have 15 files that are being printed in up to 50 languages. The translations come to us in Word. Is there any way to copy that Word text and paste it into Photoshop AND retain the formatting already applied in Photoshop? If not, is there a work around to achieve the same thing? Without...
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    Cropping scanned pages

    I have a project where I'm taking thousands of scanned pages, combining the tiffs in Acrobat into books, saving a PDF, placing that into Indesign so we can position and straighten them. I've found a way in Acrobat to deskew them and if I could only crop them all uniformly to the content on the...
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    Curve adjustments

    We have always took the press time to print a set of targets, cut them up and measure, drop into Curve2 and then apply adjustments in the rip. The targets are printed by arranging P2P targets, 4 across a 25" sheet, flipping them top to bottom, and we have large take-off bars across the gripper...
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    How to change black settings of an ICC profile in i1Profiler?

    I've done this before but it's been a while, I'd like to take the new Gracol Uncoated profile and change the GCR setting to max and resave. If in the profiling window, on patch set, if I double click the GRACoL2013UNC_CRPC3.icc profile, it loads, go to measurement window, double click on that...
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    Colorbars, print contrast, tints, relating to G7

    I have a question relating to colorbars and reading them with curves applied. Maybe I'm doing this wrong but I've always applied curves to everything on the plate including the colorbars. Recently we had an issue on press where we wanted to check print contrast of yellow and while the scanner...
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    microSD

    Anyone here have any experience in printing, or laser marking, microSD cards. We have a project we need to do this on for versioning purposes. Any ideas on where to start? Thanks
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    Scanning Spectros

    Setting up our new Epson 7900 today and watching the SpectroProofer option work, I have to ask, if this little slide on piece of automatic color measuring equipment can line up with a row of patches, press down a plastic piece to hold it in place, light up and scan across it, AND do all this for...
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    Blinding

    We print our 4-color jobs in units 2-5 of our 6-color Heidelberg and then switch to units 1-4 for our 6-color covers. Last 2 times we switched from 2-5, to 1-4 we immediately had blinding issues and couldn't print 500 sheets without the magenta going away, other colors followed if kept going...
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    Seeking thoughts on going digital here

    We are an in-plant doing the work below of which probably 95% of it is the small books. Our average runs on those books may be going downward a lot from what we are printing now so considering whether digital would be a better option for us, and what would be recommended for the type of work we...
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    Color Management

    Question #1, is it possible to make color management work strictly from within prepress? If the pressman isn't on board and doing their part such as monitoring dot gains and trying to keep them within a certain tolerance, for example, +\-4%, will color management using G7, profiles, curves...
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    Automation?

    Hi, we are a small company with 2 people in prepress, low volume and not much variety in what we print. We currently use Preps and our work consists mainly of 5.5x8.5 black only text for our web press and 6-color covers for those books and 4-color magazines on our sheetfed 6-8 times a year. I...
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    Convert To Destination (Preserve Numbers)

    Has the way this behaves when exporting out of Indesign changed recently? We are normally working with new RGB files but occasionally on a reprint we have legacy CMYK images with various old profiles applied. This is the setting we've used for several years now and I thought that with this...

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