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Hello MacTwidget, there is a simple solution: you say when I am in front of the work force I am management's man putting over your concerns, but when I am in front of management I am the work force's man putting over their concerns. You let both parties know this, clearly, FORCEFULLY. Otherwise...

I work as temporary cover for many commercial printers, both digital and offset litho, covering holidays, sickness, etc. Most of them have Adobe Creative Suite (1,2,3,4,5 and 6) running on old Macs, alongside modern macs & PCs with Creative Cloud. The Apple G5 line seems almost indestructible...

www.anthonyminchinton.co.uk Has some basic printroom documents.

Stop dicking around and call in an air strike.

I work for a multitude of commercial printers (digital and offset) doing prepress for holiday and sickness etc. There are certain commercial printers I cannot send particular jobs to because the pressman is incapable of doing a good job - they do an O.K. job. All hell breaks loose when pressman...

Hi, I have worked in multiple print rooms & mailrooms for decades as I do holiday and sickness cover through an agency. My experience is that having mail go through a scanner first, before getting to the mailroom is the safest option. This is done offsite in case the scanner ignites a bomb or...

Hello bcr, I opened this PDF in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional (I'm at home) and looked at it, but I deleted the last five colour pages, leaving only the black pages. I opened OUTPUT PREVIEW with different settings and saw anomalies that I believe means you have colour transparency overprint...

In many in-plants they record each machines clicks every day by writing them manually in a log. Three reasons: FIRST it tells you what your bills are going to be and SECOND you can compare billed jobs with click counts on a monthly or weekly basis to see who is taking advantage of your kit to...

Just a thought, but is the paper grain the same way round as the Xerox paper?

Interesting, I had the converse: client had zoomed in to the maximum in Acrobat and said his logo was pixelated - wanted another proof that would allow them to zoom in all the way to check quality. Tried to explain, client could not get their head around this even with a hard copy proof as they...

Not my experience when covering holiday and sickness at Xerox in-plants (which I have done for years), quite the opposite here in the UK. Plenty of the normal print jobs plus the most stupid time wasting clients imaginable - there is a different attitude from clients when its an in-plant in my...

Man I am so far out, remote just doesn't do it justice. Currently only 202 miles from home - has been worse, sadly.

And then IBM used it in their “Hardware Abstraction Layer” software first on mainframes and so on... until it can now be found in almost every computer, desktop or otherwise as all computer techies find it very amusing. It's because we lead a very boring life answering the same questions day...

Alternatively management cannot stomach lower employees being right, so instead there is a consultant team employed who do lots of measuring (you can only manage what you measure) and then presents a thick report that is indecipherable or unintelligible and allows management to say the employees...

Our favourite is the uncalibrated PC monitor user creating a 100% cyan and 100% magenta ink and seeing a nice dark blue colour on their screen. We print a proof and it comes out purple - naturally. Customer then complains that we have got it wrong and our monitors & printing presses are...

Same problem with backups - some clients never learn, some repeatedly.

I have been temping for decades now and I find that employers cover the entire spectrum from extremely good to extremely bad and everything in between, but I find the worst are those with the least knowledge & skills in printing; be they from the humble copy shop to the multinational. Just my...

Sorry I have no idea, but I got the impression that it was a know problem as when he looked at the machine he said, "Hold on I have to get something from the van" He did not come back carrying boxes; consequently I presume it was just a tool he had forgot to bring. He only spent 15 minutes on...

Mac OS 11 or Windows 10 it does not matter if you are switching from one or the other, it will mean PAIN. People learn all the idiosyncrasies of an operating system & applications interaction with it over a long period of time, switch them over and they are lost. They now have to invest time in...

I work at various sites and have to mangle (sorry manage) Linux, Macintosh, Unix and Windows on a daily basis. They are all awful. The hardware is made right on the limit so it lasts three years and one day, and not a day longer. The software is released with known bugs, but denied until some...