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Hi all! Would someone be so kind as to instruct me on how to make the change from Sonora XP plates to Sonora XTRA plates on the platemaker computer? Kodak dialed in and made the change over a year ago and told me what to do but we haven't received XTRA plates until today and being so long ago...

This is an easy question and not to sound like an idiot...The counter on our Komori Lithrone 28 on the upper left side of our press reads about 23.5m impressions. Being that it's 25 years old, I would assume it has gone around the clock once and would be at minimum 123.5m impressions am I...

We're running Prinergy and Prinergy EVO with an Acheive Platesetter. I've asked this question of printing friends before and not really gotten an answer. Do you need to calibrate the Sonora plates occasionally and if so, what's the process? I used to calibrate plates all the time when I had...

Hi all! We're printing this big solid (PMS) blue pocket folder and it was brought up that we should do a bump plate. Now, I haven't done a bump plate for many years and the pressman asked for a 90% and a 10 or 20% tint plate. From what I can remember, the original plate needs to be 100% and the...

As a prepress person, this is not usually my task until the new owner asked me to look into it. We are looking to get replacement stitcher heads for our Horizon Collator. The heads are Hohner 48/5 S. I've found a number of used ones on eBay for around $420. Problem of course on eBay is you don't...

Let me ask you a question...Your pressman and bindery person (the die cutter) have nothing to do. A job comes in that you print every year. A new owner comes in and finds the job under-quoted by their estimation approximately $400. The customer balks at the increase. Would you not take the job...

Does anyone know if there is a Workshop Client available for Prinergy 8.3 on the PC and will it run on the newer versions of Windows? Thank you!

Quick question. Do you have your Prinergy server set up for internet access? I've never had to before that I know of but the last 2 months I haven't been able to start Prinergy because it "Can't verify the license". This has been happening at the first of the month. Today, I couldn't login to...

Okay...long day... Came in this morning and started Prinergy and it had the error message that it "Can't verify Prinergy License" and won't start. I've had this message the last 2 months (always on the 1st of the month) so I go under the License tab and go and retrieve the license and hit apply...

Looked at a previous thread but didn't find a conclusion. I Googled what people were using as a replacement for Font Explorer and most were designers that only use a few fonts whereas us in Prepress using many. Has there been a consensus of opinion on which is better? I'm finally planning on...

I call it "less than" because I'm sure you'll probably respond by saying "why would you do it?" but I'm just curious. I've been out of the loop on color management for 14 years now because my production manager/ former press technician did not see eye-to-eye on how to profile a press. My...

This may be a lame question but can someone tell me where to find the User Preferences in 8.3? I've been trying to get my Preps to work again but not having a lot of luck. These are the messages I'm getting in this order. This all started after we changed the router and had to assign new IP...

Have a problem that perhaps someone can give me options to try. We have a Konica Bizhub 1060 with a Fiery running Command Workstation 5. We've had a number of issues with conflicting IP addresses lately but this wasn't one of the computers with the problem. We have an employee that recently went...

Just a quick question. Enable Gray Overprint. This is a default setting in Prinergy 8. Is anyone using this or are you turning it off? I had a file the other day that the customer had a gray illustration on a black background that overprinted. I had to go into Pitstop and tell it not to...

Hi all! Does anyone know if there is a setting that I can change to have Prinergy ignore trapping settings set in the pdf? I'd feel much safer if I let Prinergy trap my files than some customer setting their whites etc. to overprint. Thank You!

A customer asked me the other day if I knew of a good Inposition program and could recommend one to him. He was currently looking at Inp02. Since I've been using Preps my entire career, I really have no knowledge of what's out there. Can someone vouch for this program (I believe it's an Acrobat...

Since I'm posting today, I figure I might as well address another issue with Prinergy 8 and see if you might also be having this issue. When refining a pdf, I usually go into my settings and tell the black to overprint. I've noticed on a couple of occasions, this is being ignored. I thought...

We recently just changed over to Prinergy 8 and I just noticed on a particular job that the VPS was messed up. It was missing color out of the background of a postcard I was working on. I went back and previewed the refined pdf and it was perfect and then I made a pdf proof of the Imposition...

Hi All! This may be a simple question….We just upgraded from EVO 5.3 to the newest PGY and Preps 8 due to them not supporting EVO anymore. I just finished the 3-day training which doesn't include detailed training on Preps 8. I've been using Preps 6 so there's not too much of a difference (a...

I'm really not sure if this is a setting that got messed up or what happened so hopefully someone can give me an idea to try. We had a major rainstorm today and we lost power for about 10 seconds. We shut down everything and waited for the storm to pass. Upon rebooting the Prinergy Evo server...