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Prepress Technician needed in Richmond, Virginia (commercial offset and digital printing). Contact Kristin Jones, [email protected]

Worth Higgins & Associates is looking for a night shift Prepress Technician. Work three 12-hour nights a week – get paid for 40 hours. Knowledge in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop required. Must have good leadership and decision making ability. Excellent work environment and benefits. Email...

Worth Higgins & Associates is seeking an experienced Job Planner/Estimator to join our team. Minimum 3 years experience in printing with a thorough knowledge of cost estimating, production planning in all printing processes, paper, ink, bindery/letterpress/finishing operations, purchasing...

Looking for comments & suggestions from large commercial offset printers. Sorry for the length, attempting to explain our situation. We accept both sources files and PDFs for print output. Our current workflow does not allow for automation in the form of customer uploads into our RIP system. We...

At our company, plates are made in prepress. We have about 6 people in prepress on day side and a smaller crew at night. We want pressmen focusing 100% on keeping the presses moving, not fiddling with plates. As soon as one job is off, they have the next set of plates ready when needed. We do...

Matthias, just to clarify... our new computers are not G5s (my mistake) they are Intel Mac Pros running OS 10.6.4. Quark 7 will install but when you go to enter the validation code, it gets stuck and will not take the number. You can run it fine in demo mode but when that runs out, it's all...

Sorry, the new macs are "Mac Pro" Intel with 10.6.4.

Yeah, I need to hear some comments from people who have been forced to deal with all new machines that will not run old software. How are they handling things internally as well as with their customers who are still using old software. Sometimes customers want their final print files back and...

We are a commercial printer and have run into a situation where our prepress production Macs are breaking down on us. We replace them with new G5s running Snow Leopard but cannot install Quark 7 or lower on these new machines---only Quark 8. Quark tech support tells me they no longer support...

Our sales rep tells me the designer said it specifically helps the jewelry images. The images are mostly diamonds and lot of silvery-white gold. I wonder if he wants an additional black plate for some of the detail rather than using so much CMY that could easily cast those neutrals. But yes, I...

I think this must be some sort of regional term, but have you ever heard of a "kicker plate?" Our new client (graphic designer from another state) is suggesting that we use a kicker plate underneath some images of diamond jewelery which float inside a black background on white paper. He says it...

Yes, exactly how it will look on uncoated stock. I can proof uncoated work on coated stock all day long--easy as pie. Clients don't like it, but they don't mind that gray if they see it on the uncoated proofing stock. I've heard of people using 2 inkjet proofers, one for coated and one with the...

Yes, I know I'm asking for the impossible but I'm wondering if other people have noticed this and what ideas they have for combating the problem. We just printed a job where the designer carefully picked a huge variety of color builds from Pantone's Uncoated color bridge book. There were also...

We tried using an uncoated proofing profile on the coated stock. Clients rejected proofs because black looks gray and sometimes the shadows look strange as well.

I am curious how commercial sheetfed printers are proofing their uncoated press work. Are you using an inkjet proofer with uncoated paper? Is this a separate proofer than what you use for coated work? Any advice or suggestions would be helpful.

We use plate curves to control gain on coated and uncoated paper and this works well for us. We target our gain numbers to gracol numbers and can make our uncoated sheets look very similar to the coated sheets--as best that an uncoated sheet can. Our problem is with the high target gain values...

Re: Dynastrip Creep setting We aren't using too many JDF impo's yet. In Dynastrip, we go to Job Definition/Definition/Pagination Seq. Def./ click Paper Thickness and enter the caliper and push-in button. I hope this helps.

Re: Dynastrip Creep setting Our job planners find out from the paper company the caliper of the paper. It's usually some number like .0039". That is what we put in for paper thickness. Dynastrip does the math and push-ins based on that.

We use Dynastrip for imposition and rip eps through Rampage v10.4. Here's our issue—I hope it makes sense, some things can be hard to explain, but I welcome any suggestions. When we have a job that needs creep (push-in) and the pages are close to our color bar, the marks coming from the single...