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Hello all, i am hoping some one can help with an answer for a trapping issue that i have stumbled upon. I have a job which prints in a solid brown spot colour that also requires a support brown bump of the same colour, there is reverse text through out the job so naturally i need a push back of...

Hello all, need some direction in finding a way of making a software that was legally purchased by our company many years ago to work on another Mac workstation. This software has it's own dongle and i would of thought that when installing on another machine that when the dongle was placed into...

Hello all, need some help with my Epson 9880, I require to print on a clear mylar substrate at times to show embossing or hot stamping and overlay it on my hi res proof, problem is i cannot get the 9880 to load the roll. I use the same material 42" roll on my 9600 and my 9900 and i have no...

Hello all, this is new for me and i need your advice. I have been asked to look into finding what would be the best option for us to print small jobs on 18pt stock 12 X 18 size. A system with color management is a must. Any input would be appreciated.

Hello all, Happy New Year ! We have a Galileo VS in place since 2005, which has a 60MW laser. Everything is working fine but i have a question about plate exposure. In the past 6 months our plate exposure has gone from about 200 to 300 to give us a correct plate. After almost 8 years i...

Hello everyone, i would like to know if you can give me your opinions on what you believe would be the best color management proofing solution for me. As of now we have 7, G7 proofing profiles created from our press fingerprints which were made with the PerfX software from TGLC and imported...

Hello everyone, long time since my last post but here goes, I am currently using Pandora version 3 from Kodak for all my packaging imposing, been using it since 2005 and i find it great app for our needs. I am running this app on a Mac Mini 2.4 Ghz Intel core 2 Duo with 8 GB of ram. The issue...

First of all, Happy New All ! Hoping i can get some education on a barcode issue that I am having, I create a number of different kinds of codes for packaging and internal use with Barcode Pro, UPC, ITF, Pharmacodes, etc. We have 2 kinds of QC code scanners in house, a hand held reader and...

Hello all, I hope someone can shed some light on this for me. For about 3 or 4 months litho has been bringing me sheets, I am CTP, these start up sheets seem to have what I call stains or streaks of ink on them all over the place and they seem to think it is my plates (Agfa Lap-V), to get rid of...

Anyone have any experience printing gloss varnish on conventional permanent ink, will flaking of the varnish occur because of the wax in the ink ? If anyone has any advice no this it would be greatly appreciated.

Hello all, I hope some one can help out with some tips on offset printing Mirafoil with a Cyrel plate. We are doing testing with about 50% coverage on a 40" sheet and in order to get a nice solid coat down we are experiencing some doubling effects around the edges of shapes and inside reverse...

Hello all, David here in need of some proofing explanation and guidance. First of all I am no color management expert but I do know my stuff some what. Let me start by telling you that at my shop we (prepress and litho) have learned and have successfully fingerprinted our 40" press many times...

Can someone give me some reasons why my SWOP 2009 calibrated contract proof cannot be matched on our press. My plates have the standard 5% bump on them, Litho started running standard densities C_1.4 M_1.4 Y_1 K_1.8, but to have proper dot gain densities were adjusted so that all colors measured...

Hello all, I am wondering if anyone out there has any experience printing with Light Fast Permanent Inks on SBS board. What i would like to know is if you find it consistent from run to run and if you find that it prints dirtier than conventional inks, do you have trouble with dot gain or...

Hello all, i hope some one can help with a plate problem that we are experiencing more often than i like. This year and even the odd time last year we were getting spots on our plates that have fuzzy edges about 1/8 to 3/16 in size, at first Agfa told us that is was coming from our processor so...

Hello all, I hope someone can shed some light on this major processor problem i had this week. It started on Tuesday, the litho department was printing a job with 3 layouts, 2 sets of plates were made about a 2 weeks ago and the plates for the third form were made Monday. When they tried to...

If anyone can direct me to some sites on learning and understanding this side of the printing trade it would be greatly appreciated. Thank You

Hello all, anyone upgraded yet?, i just received my upgrade disc and was wondering if anyone has had any problems, i have read a few horror stories on the web, I am not interested in using it for production at work any time soon but i would like to try at home just to see all the bells and...

Hello all, Can anyone give me some feedback Fuji's photopolymer plates, right now we use Agfa lapV plates and a little pricing war has started up between the two at my shop, pro's and con feedback would be great.

Hello all, Just wondering if anyone is using any kind of soft proofing server applications like Agfa's Delano or DALiM DiALOGUE to have clients view and approve jobs online. I have been asked to research this service for a few of our clients, what are the pro's and con's ?. For me, any job's...