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What is the difference between the PressSync curves. For example, if an E50 curve is a straight line, and the rest of the curves differ in the highlight/shadow curves, how much does an A50 curve differ at 25% and 75%? Is there a set distance between each curve letter at each percent?

I need some help reading this chart in i1 Profiler (which I am unfamiliar with besides watching the training videos) using an i1i0. The chart I have is split into two pages, and already printed. When I select the IT8.7/4 chart from the list, it says it is only 1617 patches, however the printed...

We have tried using a photopolymer barred plate for several coating trials on our offset HUV press. Does someone know of vendors in the US (midwest area) that can be a resource for us? We are looking for more than one vendor that can supply us with these plates.

I am familiar with the offset world but transitioning to flexo. We rarely have to adjust images. How do flexo prepress operators handle image editing? Is it a manual process where the minimum dot (and abrupt transitions) is adjusted in Photoshop, or are plugins such as Esko's flex tools used...

Our Epson proofer is calibrated and set up to a Gracol profile and our plating curves for press are aimed to match the proof. We have a customer who sent in their proof, which differs from ours. They say it is also set to a gracol profile. Their stock is whiter, however the difference in proofs...

How many of you use FIRST? How difficult was it to implement? Has it been more beneficial for prepress or press? Do you recommend using the online training from FTA or another means to start implementing it? We are looking for ways to standardize our flexo process, mainly in the pressroom.

We just upgraded to a pdf workflow, and have have a few issues, one of which: Sometimes, when we output a jdf from Preps using color mapping, and only want to output one out of several colors from the file, it will still print some (not all) of the colors. Example: File has six colors. We print...

We currently use a Nexus Raster Workflow (output to Links/Pages), and would like to upgrade to a pdf workflow. We have used Preps for years, however we are concerned with how it will handle the pdfs. We are looking into using Esko's FastImpose, however we understand that this is mostly used...

We currently use a WS FTP server set up on a Windows XP machine. For the most part, it works, however it seems like we always have customers who cannot access it (and we're always given the "well, we never have this problem with any other ftp site"). A lot of the time it's because our...

I have a dieline that is made up of filled rectangles. Is there an easy way to convert that to stroked lines in Illustrator CS3? I can use the outline command in the pathfinder menu, however it makes multiple strokes for each side of the rectangle. I'd like to ideally convert it to a stroke...

Odd thing happening: I have a file saved in CS2; the art, which is just a dieline, has a size of 10.1261x7.5. This is the correct size. However, when I open this file up in CS3, it shows a size of 10.14x7.5139. The difference is small, .0139, however it's enough of a difference to be a...