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Code 3 of 9: Easy Can add as text with a barcode font Not robust Uses lots of space Code 39 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia //////////////////////////////////////////// Code 128 Requires some programming probably to pre-process your text Can add as text with a barcode font Robust...

Isn't this common practice already? Am I living in my own little world where I get dinged extra for more toner rather than simply shut down?

Oh I get toner limits for sure. I'm just not cool on their response here. I understand "We're going to charge you more". That works, but what is going on when they say "Stop printing."? That's just lunacy. They might as well say "Please go out of business and default so we can lose a customer...

Well, I always find it's easier to get help when you're about to buy something, so you've got that going for you. Bring up your concern and insist that before you can purchase another press you've got to resolve the off-color issue and see consistent results between the machine on your floor and...

OK. Egg on my face. Not a Harlequin problem at all. I'm writing good X3s to my debugging stream, but the actual data going through the pipe to the RIP is missing the XML metadata, causing the document to not be interpreted as plain PDF. So the core issue here has nothing to do with the RIP.

98% of the time this is a moot point, because people usually send us files using SWOP as the output intent, but when that is not the case, I've not found any way to make the RIP use the incoming document's output intent. The manuals are contradictory, but the ColorPro User's Guide says that: A...

I'm not a lawyer, but from what I understand it's not possible to copyright facts, and fonts are basically the factual mathematical representation of the vectors used to draw a set of glyphs. Most fonts are based on traditional typefaces which are actually very old, so the design itself is not...

I can't see how anyone could reasonably expect you to look up the licensing for a font yourself if they couldn't be bothered to set the licensing options properly when they created it.

Working from multiple locations with multiple printer companies, I've never seen a shipping charge for toner. It seems very strange that they would threaten to cut you off for going over coverage. Isn't the usual response to just ding your bill? How do that think they're going to make any money...

I'm not entirely sure. We use it with fairly thick stock that has some challenging characteristics, so we end up running hot and slow all the time. I do know that it becomes more challenging to operate at higher speed. When you crank it up, previously minor feeding or bursting issues can...

We use Foliant and GBC. The Foliant seems to offer a good value, but is much more hands on. It's simpler, and probably easier to fix, but seems to have more trouble as well. It doesn't feed as cleanly and doesn't stack as neatly, so expect the operator to spend more time with the machine and...

C:\>lpr -S 192.168.0.1 -P XeroxQueueName -J JobName -o l f:\fileName.pdf This is assuming you're on a Windows machine. Whether it will actually be faster will depend on your rip, but it's certainly worth a try. EDIT: You may have to install LPR first under "Control Panel" -> "Programs and...

Hmm... interesting instructions. I have to agree with Gordo though that something appears funny. Either the description is a bit off or someone has gone and relabeled the Quadrants. It does show the idea, though, except that this is a bit old-school. It looks like the instructions are intended...

In linearizing my goal isn't to directly make the output look a certain way, but rather to be able to control what that output should be. You get your input PDF already in terms of how how a certain press should respond, whether that's as "SWOP" or "Gracol" or whatever. But if I'm going to...

OK, now you've got me worried that I've got some really basic misconceptions, Gordo. Isn't press linearization pretty much step one for any standards process? I want to be able to say 30% and get 30%, right? That seems to be fundamental.

I've seen this happen two ways: #1 -- The font isn't actually the same. Maybe a different postscript name, or even a different font altogether just at that character if you haven't checked. #2 -- The document is created using the "Combine PDF tool" in Acrobat. Combining two different documents...

Thanks, Gordo. I definitely know just enough to get myself into trouble. What's frustrating is that so many printers don't even seem to know that. I know two large offset printers that didn't even linearize their presses, I'm not sure anyone even understood the concept that you'd have a press...

Well, I do understand that it's meant to be a tool to help you reach a valid G7 state rather than a check sheet or spectro-photometer calibration tool. The thing is I'm trying to work with several different printers. In the mix are several different digital color presses, a DI, several...

If your content is a black and white only (not-grayscale), then you should compress the images as G4 Tiffs, ideally at some even fraction of the final output process' resolution if you know it. If your content is grayscale, then you will want to store it as JPEG2000, you'll want to play with...

My Google-fu seems to be weak today; I can't for the life of me find anyone selling hard copies of the ideaAlliance G7 forms. Anyone have a link?