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There a few issues with Preps and Yosemite. I know that Kodak is aware of them and working on fixes. I just spoke to the product manger last week at the Kodak GUA conference.

I disagree, we print high end cosmetic lit and nutritional lit - (Very High End) and we print it digitally on Kodak and HP equipment. Digital is far from peak, if you truly believe that you are in trouble. We are shutting down offset equipment in favor of digital, the flexibility, speed, short...

Here's a classic. Customer: I got a 6 color job, 4 color process, PMS376 and PMS 349 but right here I want the logo is 100% 349 and this part is 50% lighter but NO screens I don't like they way screens look on my printing.

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We have a CSR that always seems to have vacation whenever that CSR's jobs are going to press. It happens enough that it become a bit of a running joke. "Oh look, CSR X's job is on press tomorrow, guess it's a vacation week."

"I used Quark Xpress 3.+, so I don't have to pay trapping charges."

You can't use JPEG compression for images.

I feel your pain. My prepress department is constantly told that the Front Office is our Customer and treat them as such. Then is the same breath the pressroom is our customer treat them as such. We slowly learned, that data wins. We use a workflow which tracks every action in the workflow...

We use Prinergy with Cyrel, but will be moving to Kodak Flexcel NX in the by the end of the year. It has some great features and functionality like the Rule Based Automation. I'm an inplant printer with Flexo and Offset. I know of at least 2 Flexo Trade shops that are using Prinergy very...

Greg has the right answer with the RasterPDF. We have Prinergy and been making 150dpi anti-aliased CMYK Zip Compressed PDFs for clients for a long time. A client that is "less than tech savvy" this will worked well for content approvals. The down side some clients may think there is something...

Take a serious look at your file management. It sounds to me like you have a file management issue more than anything. We live and die by Time/Date stamps. Every PDF, PS, Impose file has a Time/Date stamp in the file. I'm not talking the computer file date stamp. I talking about setting the...

This is a general question? If you supply Flexo plates do you trim them to the exact length the customer needs on press or do you let the customer do the final trim? If you receive flexo plates do you have to do a final trim? Just curious, we have a customer demanding that we trim the plates...

My guess having 2 Magnus 800s is you have a failed data transfer board, with lick it's just a loose connector cable. Reconnect all or cables and try. If that doesn't work, call Kodak.

Use it everyday, very powerful and useful, can automate all kinds of functions. I have Rules that delete VPS files, send out email notices, Move files, build jobs from hot folder dropped files, etc. Major time savers and standard work improvements. That's the PRO. The CON is very hard to...

We use Kodak Preps for Commercial. Kodak Pandora for Packaging including flexo work.

I think of a service contract as insurance. If you own a business you buy insurance on the building, equipment, against lawsuits, etc. Not doing so and you would be out of business pretty quick if you don't have the capital to replace a piece of equipment and such. Your workflow is no...

Nothing but love for Kodak in my world. No issues with plates, produce about 2500 a month for everything from a 20" label press to 40" Carton Press and 38" Webs, using Kodak Platinum. Use Kodak Prinergy to run the whole operation, Kodak Magnus Platesetters, even a Thermoflex. Make about 1100...

Call HP have them send out a tech to replace the Service Station - Q6718-67025 (part number.) I have 2 HPz2100s that were dripping ink just like you describe. They ran me through all kinds of stuff, finally got a tech. He said replace this part about every 6 months if you have heavy use.

Anyone heard of or use Fine Eye ICESaver, ICEMaker. We just had a little dog and pony about this software. Curious if anyone has experience with it.

I've met you before. You did Typesetting and 4/c Stripping in a past life. Not all VDP printing is Junk Mail and not all is dull/muddy looking. Ignoring VDP and Digital printing is the same as all those who scoffed at Macs/imagesetters/Desktop apps 10-15 years ago. It's about what the...