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Lean-to Lean-to Prepress and the Business of prepress is a complicated deal today. You need to be fast, smart, and able to communicate well. "Lean", ya we got that. To be "lean" you need to whack everyone that doesn't have the right attitude and cannot put the rubber to the road and get s*^t...

Plates Plates Wow, I thought we were the only ones. Something like this happened to us with an older Creo. We would occasionally switch to imaging ultra large film on the device which requires a completely different laser config. When switching back, the exact scenario would occur causing...

Connection Connection I assume you are working on Illustrator files that reside on the server and not on your desktop. Snow Leopard seems to be quite a bit different as fa as connectivity for some reason. The message about a file being modified outside of Illustrator I have seen a few times...

prepress prepress I like their headline: "Worlds Leading Prepress Application"

Screening Screening You are correct in that the highlight screen break and range compression will not be achieved exactly like the press sample. My hope is to get close to that with the profiled proof. The color gamut for a screened proof will be quite a bit different than the profiled...

Screened Epson Screened Epson Gordo, you zoomed right in on that one. There is a bit of funny business in getting the color close on the Epson proof and the actual tiffs for plating. I admit to RIPping the file twice via BS with a slightly different curve for the proof. There are quit a few...

screening screening If you are not using the same screening engine to make your proof there is no point. We can produce Sambaflex screened Epson proofs using the actual tiffs for plating. Find a PDF engine like TiffPager to combine your final tiffs to a composite PDF for RIPping on the Epson...

Esko PDL Esko PDL Silence from Esko PDL. We're still waiting for a reply.

Plug-ins Eskopdl Plug-ins Eskopdl That is were I am at with CS and Plugins. We currently own PackEdge and BoostX, Dynamic content, BarX plugins etc. . I try to stay on top of the latest offerings Esko makes available. Perhaps Eskopdl would help us understand the marketing and direction Esko is...

Text trapping Text trapping Probably the reason there are no replies to your question is virtually no Esko users have live text in their files. The text engine is so embarrassingly bad (at least 10 years old, and it didn't work then) it is virtually impossible to work with live fonts in...

Here's a question to the experienced audience. Given the Esko tools available in Illustrator now, How comfortable is everyone with working a job completely in CS4 directly through to tiffs using BS without the use of PackEdge or Artpro? If you have licenses of either or both high-end editors...

PDF Backstage PDF Backstage Ok, This is a tricky one. First thing to know is the display values for PMS colors in the resulting PDF from Backstage WILL NOT match the display values from any Adobe product or the PMS library. The CMYK conversion values are different. Apparently when importing to...

Trapped 1-bit images Trapped 1-bit images Well, you could take the neg, then do a spread using a diffusion sheet to another piece of dupe film, then DX it back in....Easy!, but then we would have to go back in time 15 years. This is one task that has not become easier with better technology...

How does the prepress provider today deal with clients who would rather not view PDFs with proper separations or overprint preview turned on? We have a pretty complete Esko suite of tools and workflows, but the client population has gone from bad to worse in the working knowledge of actually...

live text live text Are you managing licensed fonts on the Backstage server? I have reviewed the documentation on this which is fairly complex. Are you comfortable with the tools built into PE for the use of fonts as compared to any other desktop application ie: Illustrator? Also how does that...

OK, here's the million dollar question. What is Esko going to do about the text engine in PackEdge? Is the Artpro/Packedge common PDF editor going to have a new one when introduced? We need live text in normalized pdf files for a number of reasons, most importantly the round trip scenario to...

First Proof First Proof We use FlexoPerfection for tiff viewing and editing although that product may be end of life also. Bitmap Viewer is pretty good, but no editing, just a quick look of you work before QA. I can attest that FirstProof is a real powerful product. We use it for final tiff...

AE10 upgrade AE10 upgrade Word has it there is a system audit necessary to check compatibility and licensing. They recommend on-site install and licensing config to maximize productivity and minimize downtime. I think it will be similar to the SS7 upgrade. There are a lot of new packages that...

We are getting quite a few CS4 Illustrator files with placed photoshop files that have vector smart object layers referring back to another Illustrator file. Would really like to keep as many vector objects as possible in the Esko normalized pdf file. I know it is convenient for the designer to...

Finally getting rid of the CRTs on our workstations on both PCs and Macs. Looking for suggestions on decent flat panel displays from 20 - 24". I have found for the most part, a standard LCD will display much better on a Mac. The PCs with assorted video cards have a HUGE difference in quality. We...