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    Prinergy is dead: They are laying off the dev team

    Just got a phone from a source today, they are shutting down Prinergy development Prinergy is Dead | Prepress Pilgrim
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    Backup solutions for servers in the shop...

    I've identified 5 windows servers in the shop that need to be backed up and preferably backed up as a cloned image disk. That is to say, day-to-day backups of the data are covered (somewhat) but what I really want is a central server that stores ghosted images of each server. So when (not if) a...
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    Help out a brother in prepress...

    If you have 3 minutes One of my clients, Printcraft Solutions, has their mail totally screwed up by Shaw cable. All the gory details I've written up on my blog post Digg - ISP Nightmare: Shaw Cable is stealing our mail. If you are a digg, please digg us this story for me. Cory, I know it's...
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    High-end image scanning services...

    I'm building an affiliate store for [hasselblad cameras|http://www.hasselbladzone.com] (high-end Swedish film cameras) and it's a bit thin right now for content. I would like to add a directory page listing trade shops that still provide scanning services using drum scanners and the like. I...
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    Anybody know a vendor in Canada who can service an Eye-One?

    X-Rite won't service Eye-Ones in Canada, they have farmed the service work out to a company called Docucom. Docucom is now BPO Management, and phoning their toll-free number leads to voicemail hell and leave-a-message-to-a-person who nevers phones back. We just need a bulb replacement on our...
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    Found a new blog written by a Print shop owner

    Go check it out, it's called [Poor Richard's Printshop|http://poorrichard.wordpress.com] Poor Richard's Printshop and it's actually written by a guy who owns a printshop [www.poorrichard.wordpress.com|http://www.poorrichard.wordpress.com] Edited by: DJ Dunkerley on Mar 10, 2008 3:27 PM
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    Request to submit pictures of your server rack, here's mine...(IT backbone)

    Hi guys: I snapped a picture of our server rack for Printcraft Solutions along with a explanation of the duties of each server. [Printcraft Solutions|http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/index.php/archive/printcrafts-it-backbone/] I would really enjoy it if people could add to this thread comments...
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    Adobe CS3 upgrade and activation woes

    Here at Printcraft we are on the third day of trying to activate our upgrade copy of CS3. We have installed CS3 on the mac and it accepts the serial number but when we click on the activate button the application just aborts. We have spent hours on the phone with Adobe tech support and after...
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    Escaping Prepress Hell

    This post was originally inspired by a posting in a prepress forum where somebody complained about the low pay at their job. I have been reading these type of post for about oh, I say ten years. Okay here are ten steps to a better job. 1. If you have worked at current position for 2 or more...
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    My 10 Fearless Prepress Predictions for 2008

    Here at my [blog|http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/index.php/archive/10-fearless-prepress-predictions-for-2008/] I bet I will be ten for ten by the end of the year, if not sooner. thx for the space
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    FYI Adobe promotion for 25th Anniversary.

    LInk is here: [Store|http://www.dpbolvw.net/da74klthps69DCFGE9687C8G88G] Free shipping worldwide out of its North American Store don't know if the European stores offer the same deal. It's good until December 20th.
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    Trojans ate my Windows 2000 workstations/servers until Sophos came along...

    We had a REAL nasty trojan infection here at Printcraft-Solutions for the last 4 weeks or so. It managed to infect the Windows 2000 workstations/servers by way of weak password-protected network shares. Fortunately, as my Prinergy server is 2003, we never lost our plate-making capacity for the...
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    Different document formats to PDF Widget...

    Hi everybody: I've posted a widget here that allows you to submit 24 differents of electronic files and get a PDF file e-mailed back to you. http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/index.php/gadgets/ I've tested it out, and it seems to work fine. However, it would be nice to get feedback from other...
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    Article on how printers charge their customers

    http://www.businessofdesignonline.com/how-printers-charge/ cheers, DJ www.prepresspilgrim.com
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    What are good web sites for prepress/workflow people to look at...

    You know: Colour management sites... Workflow sites Tech advice sites The chief thing I'm looking for is web sites written up by prepress people, not sites written up by people belonging to other... um... tribes. Like: http://mpcny.com/printblogger/ or http://printceoblog.com/ thx, DJ...
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    Free RIPing on Prinergy 4.0 server via FTP

    Courtesy of my client www.printcraft-solutions.com. The hot folder will take PDF Postscript and rasterized to a 600 dpi image with a PDF wrapper. This is the new PDF rip from Adobe, able to handle transparencies. ftp://printcraft.dnsdojo.com username customer password bark21 More instructions...

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