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I've seen this managed a couple different ways at other companies, but I'd like to get some opinions on what we should be targeting for color for repeat customer orders after the initial press run is complete. We are a flexo printer running both Expanded Gamut and standard CMYK+Spot press...

Hi Everyone, I'm looking for a solution for creating an accurate 7-color ICC profile utilizing IT8 charts as the input. I currently have i1Profiler but need to generate a custom 7/c overprint chart in order to create the ICC. Any suggestions?

Need an answer with a little 'Show your work' math to back this question up. I have artwork that has a 10.42" repeat that is going to be mounted on a 10.5" cylinder. PLEASE show me the math to figure out the correct distortion. Thanks!!

I need some help! We keep getting a 'Failed to map colorant' error (attached) that is causing our RIP to fail. Has anyone seen this and have a solution to the problem? We've contacted ESKO directly and they haven't been any help.

Can anyone give me a good solid reason why many printers run with a .010" trap for process colors and a .015" trap for spot colors? What is the reason for the difference? If the presses are capable of holding .010" registration on jobs with process inks, why are they not capable of holding...

I'm having an issue with the cursor in PackEdge. When I switch from the selection tool to the zoom or pan tool, the 'hand' or 'zoom' icons won't change back to a 'pointer' when I switch back to the selection tool. Anyone else run across this?! The only solution I've found is to re-launch...

There is a push at my facility where I'm employed to clean up all of the small 'slivers' that are coming over in our art files. These areas are caused by contours not lining up perfectly with each other. There is sometimes a .0001" gap between contours and it will sometimes end up leaving one...

I've received stepped, bitmapped tifs from one of my separators and when I open the tif in photoshop it is blank. The file size is about 10MB, which is tiny. I can open up the tif in the Preview.app and I am able to view the file. But obviously, Preview doesn't do me any good if I need to make...

Does anyone know how to perform a screen capture on a PC with a Mac Keyboard? There is no PrtScrn key and none of the F1-16 keys seem to work. I figured out that you can get a screen capture using the 'On-Screen Keyboard' but the keyboard tends to get in the way. Anyone have any ideas?