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Hi all, It's been a while since i last posted, or even visited the forum. I 've got a couple of questions and i really hope to have your insight here. We are trying to reconfigure the production workflow, in a midsize plant. We do offset, digital, some wide format, bindery ( except sewn...

Hi folks! I'd like to hear your experience on color consistency of KM1. I'd like to hear about color variations in high volume jobs ( if there are any color variations or high volume jobs ). I'd also like to hear about reprints, if you can safe and easily reprint a previous job, or you must...

Could there be a way to export a pdf from meta, keeping text live - even outlined could do -. I've checked the pdf export output plan with no success. Checked meta's manual, nothing there too. The only options i am given is the resolution to which the file will be rasterizerd, and a ''no...

Hi all, In the printshop i worked a couple of years ago, i used to send the imposed pdf to metadimention from cockpit, then send meta send it to shooter, gave it a last check and send it to our ctp. Now, there's a small shop who bought a ctp, signa/meta and shooter as ''standalone'' apps, and...

Hi all, I runned into a serious problem. If my excel-csv file contains english characters everything works fine. When i try to make a vdp file with greek characters i get ''chinese'' instead. I don't even know were to start from. I thought that character encoding is standard unicode for all...

Happy New Year to every one! Getting straight to the subject. The printshop i'm working finally hit rock bottom - even though we still have a lot of work. The owner moved everything to a ''new'' company and he made new business proposals to the remaining stuff. For me the deal he proposed is...

Need some help here! Got a catalog with item codes written in GothamNarrow -Xlight 6pt characters. I proofed in with our epson 4800 -which i know can't exactly print very thin lines and thickens them a little bit -, the client approved and we started printing. Problem is that no matter how...

Hi... I'm trying to impose 3 different booklets on one imposition. They should be printing together, first plate signature 1 of each booklet 2nd plate signature 2 of each booklet etc. I'm preparing the first imposition choosing the plate and scheme i want, then i make a new product part not...

I was thinking that the late five years the majority of our jobs comes from print brokers and ''media agencies'' and we no longer have to do with the final customer. I could estimate that on the ''good times'' before agencies took over an amount like 70% of our jobs was given straight from the...

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-ink-required-paper.html Probably you 've seen it too along with many other things that add to the ''printing is dead'' chain... o.k. printing won't die, but every year less paper is printed, and i just can't help feeling troubled the way things progressing. Even...

Might be too straightforward but i can't achieve this, or find a similar question on the net... So lets say i have a row of 5000 entries in an excel file, and i want them placed 2 by 5 on each sheet i'll print. (First sheet entries 1-10, 2nd sheet 11-20, 3rd 21-30 etc) So i want 10 variable...

Does anyone knows how's this things are massed produced? A customer wants 3000 pieces, and google search provides me with hand crafting solutions... I think one could print the ''inner'' parts on an ''open'' cube and then use printed sticker to unite the ''folding'' parts, that makes the big...

I took some -lousy- photos of how my azura plates come out of the c85 cleaner unit, but i think you'll get the point. Gum is new i cleaned the unit yesterday, and i clean it (major maintenance ) in a monthly basis, even though we usually expose around 500 plates per month. Do you think i could...

Carrying on with my - not exactly succesfull - effort to get to know what real people do with color management i came up with another question. A good color management solution is supposed to provide same color appearance for a product in multiple applications, outdoor banners, magazine ads...

I'd like to ask what traditional (not digital) offset printshops do with file preparation and color management. Firstly if you accept native files - that's the ''easy'' part, if a printer has the infrastructure to work reliably with native files, then color manipulating/managing these files...

I'm searching for some basic - but proven - intro on this subject ,if there is any ( like i knew my way in conventional color management...) I googled it a little bit with little luck -although i found a couple of very interesting results but not as informative as i would like. Thanks in advance!

Hi all, Let's say we got 36 job cards. With 6 different trimmed sizes. 10 of them with defined trim boxes based on job description. All the others being corel pdf's,tif's,or photoshop pdf's with crop marks unidentifiable by pitstop. Some to be laminated,varnish only for the others. Some...

Could be any reason for a designer to set cmyk white overprinting on purpose?:confused:

Hi all! I'm having a little problem with signa and printready. Every now and then,when i'm importing an older layout to a new job,or even sometimes when i'm creating jobs with autosheet function,page geometry isn't ''respected'' from printready or signa,and pages are not centered to their...

Out of plain curiosity,does anyone here successfully provides proofs for uncoated paper,on the same proofing substrate he uses for coated paper proofs? We proof to the fogra 39 standard with our epson 4800 and saphira semi matt paper. Proofing to fogra29 does give an idea of what should we...