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I would like to send out a big thank you to all who have helped me on this Forum. Hopefully I have helped at least a couple of people. Mostly I followed and learned. I will be signing off in a week. I made it 40 years in prepress. The first 30 seemed fun, the last 10.... not sure fun is the...

Am I the only one that has customers viewing proofs and print without 5k lighting and saying we are always red? This seems to be getting worse as stocks have increased the amount of optical brighteners. I have always thought education is the answer, but it only goes so far. We are a G7 shop with...

I was creating press curves using a DTP70 and Colorport software and importing the data to Curve 2. My DTP70 died. I have access to a x-rite eye-one iSis. I can't seem to get the ColorPort iSis combination to read any P2P25 target. I would rather not buy new software if possible. I have tried...

I am looking for opinions here. Do you think new iMacs are appropriate for general prepress workstations these days? Or should I still be looking at Mac Pro's? Thanks for your opinions in advance. Rick

We have a full time day shift Prepress Technician position open in Denver, Colorado. Looking for a person with strong prepress skills for a shop with both sheetfed and digital presses. This is a production job, not a creative position. Pay is dependent upon experience. Please send resume to...

I upgraded a couple computers to 10.6 from 10.5 and all type one fonts are showing 0 k file size and cannot be used. All jobs are stored on a windows server connected with smb. Anybody have this problem in the past. I know I held off longer than most to upgrade. Rick

I upgraded my OS from 10.5 to 10.6 and preps 5.3.3 came up with error screen "Problem with License, call Kodak". Preps will not launch past the splash screen. I notice on the splash screen the License to and Hardware key spaces are blank. Any ideas short of issuing a PO to Kodak to have them...

We had a multiple version job come to prepress. Instructions were common cmy with black plate change. This was a 4 color piece with photos and the customer supplied separate art for each version. We combined art to ensure base was common. All proofs were OK'd. We made a mistake on one version...

We received a Topsetter 2310 Platesetter from a sister company recently. I have manufacture date of Feb 2001. I have no manual or brochure. Does anybody have a PDF or even just the specs for this device? Max Plate size, speed, etc. Thanks in advance. Rick

Commercial Printer with G7 certification in Denver Colorado looking for Experienced Prepress Technician. Nexus PDF workflow, CTP, 40" sheet fed and digital printing. Ideal candidate would have: Strong print production knowledge with good troubleshooting skills. Strong understanding of press and...

I must be missing something. I can't figure out how to have the default for Output preview be CMYK with Acrobat X. What is the secret? Rick

We no longer use our Fuji Final Proof. We have gone to Inkjet only. Does anybody think I should try to sell this or would I be wasting my time? Rick

A salesman came in with a sample he was bidding on and wanted to know if we could do it. The sample has a screened background, but when copied on copy machine, "Void" shows up. With a loop, the word void is a higher line screen than the rest of the background. Is this created from some special...

Is there a way to export or save an Indesign CS5 back to CS4? Thanks, Rick

Hello all. We looking at upgrading our EskoArtwork Raster workflow to their PDF workflow. I know, we should have done this a while ago. Questions for anybody that has done this. Are you happy with your choice of EskoArtwork as opposed to a different company? Did it do for you what you were told...