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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...