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    Agfa Elantrix 150 DX

    https://www.agfa.com/printing/forms/contact-us/ Maybe Agfa itself might help?
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    Printing Word doc on non standard size paper

    Why not print on a legal or ledger size paper and trim afterwords?
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    My head hurts...

    Hi Alith, I would think that sending the working files as untrapped and ready for your RIP + some your shop's printed 'go-bys', both untrimmed and finished would be what most other shops would need. The go-bys should explain much of what they would need to know about what is expected. It sounds...
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    Software Support

    "Yessir, that is a known issue."
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    The Wish

    I'll take that! You go home, kid. ;)
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    The Whole Package

    <sigh> My mantra: IlovemyjobIlovemyjobIlovemyjobIlovemyjobIlovemyjobIlovemyjobIlovemyjobIlovemyjob...SMILE!
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    Sequence for metallics

    Just as an aside, I've often found that if time, cost and technique allow it, a dry trap (run black first, let it dry, then run the metallic on top along with a varnish if desired) can have nice results. Although the metallic comes out a bit darker by nature of printing over the black, the...
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    Creative Cloud thoughts

    ...About websites being never going down. I go by the axiom, "Just because it hasn't happened up til now doesn't mean it can't happen in the future." What does happen these days of internet attacks and provider issues is a danger of online access problems. I much prefer to be able to work onward...
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    Konica Minolta Bizhub C552 Banding in Greyscale

    Sometimes the only way around the heavy banding is to run it in color mode.
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    Prepress Tips for Designers

    If you don't want to believe what I'm trying to tell you, please Google the same the phrase/word <insert item> and see what other online commercial printers have to say. You may get a bit of variety of answers saying approximately the same thing, but they all boil down to the fact that...
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    Why?(2)

    I've always loved this story. Two bue collar guys, sitting at the jobsite eating lunch. One is holding up and squinting intently at his Thermos. "How do it know?", he mumbles. "Huh?", his partner asks. "Thermos keeps hot things hot, an' cold things cold, right?" "Right." "Well then. How do it...
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    InDesign or Illustrator

    If you're using CS3 or later, it really shouldn't matter which program as far as your print provider is concerned, but I would advise that if the cards are two-sided with common components, I'd personally tend towards InDesign for the final output to pdf. That way you could use master pages and...
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    Client requesting a "heavier hit". What does this mean?

    Did anyone actually call the customer contact person and ask for an explanation? Better to seem ignorant up front and fulfill the request correctly than to guess at the answer, do it wrong, and lose money and credibility.
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    What book are you currently reading?

    I just finished 'Wool Omibus Edition', a self-published sci-fi series by Hugh Howey. A very good fictional read because it starts the reader thinking 'what if?'.
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    How Do You Factor Digital Print Waste When Estimating?

    Having 'house' stock for the majority of jobs does, indeed cut down on set-up time/waste. About half of what comes in our door is not on those 4 or 5 substrates. I regard my job much as an offset pressman; the color needs to match a previous printed sample within a narrow margin. That requires...
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    Questions!

    On the phone discussing my bleed requirements with an unknown 'Designer with 25 years of experience': (shouting at me) "I've never had a printer that needed more than 1/16" bleed!"
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    Customer Folder Management

    Since you mentioned it was customer [B]folder[/B] management, I'm going to assume you are a small to moderate sized shop. The main ingredient will always be strict file management. Stick to one naming convention, keep each job organized one job to one folder within each customer's enclosing...
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    Questions!

    ...And it's not only customers. Upstream salespeople, the boss, the order entry person; they all seem to pull this one. :mad: Part of my routine: I always ask, "How many finished pieces do you want to end up with?"
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    Questions!

    I'm wary of an unknown face coming through the door calling themselves a Graphic Designer. In retaliation, I call myself the 'd' word. Remember, the average Joe Web Master is merely a scullery maid of print.
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    How Do You Factor Digital Print Waste When Estimating?

    On the print side, accounting for jobs where the spot colors are critical can be a reason to having extra stock. Most 4/C digital presses have some color variation in the machine's life in between PM's. Even with things like, say regular color calibration and Fiery's Spot-On tool, acquiring...

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