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For any of you commercial printers out there using a former Artwork Systems solution like Nexus or Odystar, or even Automation Engine for commercial printing (God forbid), if this doesn't send a clear message I don't know what will. Esko is not attending this year's Graph Expo for the first time...

Just looking to find out about your experiences, positives and negatives, anything you discovered during the process that made you appreciate the upgrade (or not). Thanks!

Highest quality PDF export settings out of Illustrator and InDesign. Use the newest PDF version available, preserve the layers, absolutely no flattening / downsampling, NO PDF/X, and ideally turn of font subsetting, though not necessary.

Sort of a loaded question. A lot of people simply use Adobe Illustrator to design their dies, although it depends what your application is for the dieline as to what the right solution is. Are you a design house? Are you planning on supplying package designs from Illustrator that integrate a...

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Are you using the latest Symphony Calibrator? Are you certain which folder is the actual folder containing your calibration files Nexus is directed to see? You have to "browse" to it in Nexus Manager. Try to re-browse to the correct folder and see if that helps. Don't assume the CalFiles folder...

See the What They Think post: EskoArtwork ownership changes - Printing Industry News from WhatTheyThink What does this mean to Esko software users? Probably very little in the short term and hard to tell long term. But will Esko keep the digital imager business or sell it off? Will they keep...

Esko considers PackEdge, and now ArtPro too, to be their high-end editors. Within the next couple of years, they expect a new replacement for them. Reason is, they are not entirely the same application on the PC (PackEdge) and Mac (ArtPro). The new app, whatever it will be called, will have...

Illustrator (DeskPack) vs PackEdge/ArtPro Illustrator (DeskPack) vs PackEdge/ArtPro The problem (one of many) Esko has is selling new "seats" of ArtPro or PackEdge to new users. DeskPack is fairly affordable compared to the $25k+ that a seat of ArtPro or PackEdge costs. The people purchasing...

Right, so the answer I have is to go back to Esko and complain about the traps. Send them the file, send them the screen shot of the gaps the trapper is leaving and ask them how this file should be trapped using the expensive tool you purchased from them. With Esko as with most companies, the...

I am interested if this "Detect Ssmall Gaps" fix works for you I am interested if this "Detect Ssmall Gaps" fix works for you Hugh Betcha, let the forum know if you can find a fix for your trap problems. I believe this is a bug and not a simple fix, but I am interested to hear what you come...

So as you can see, there is very limited trap editing you can do, as clearly indicated by this manufacturer's representative. You can affect the trap size, direction and miter only. The Trap Select tool does little more than allow you to select the trap. Due to the multi-point segmented traps...

While the Esko answer is to purchase more software, I think you are correct to first explore what standard tools and methods are used to compensate images for flexo press gain. I don't know where you are located, but I assume there should be some regional resources that can help you. I would...

Esko Trapping Issues! Esko Trapping Issues! I think the TrapX automated traps are extremely difficult to edit using standard Adobe Illustrator tools. The easiest and more costly solution is to use the TrapX-i optional interactive trap tool, remove the bad trap and re-trap with the interactive...

Esko Trapping Issues Esko Trapping Issues TrapX as an Adobe Illustrator trap solution is pretty good, but far from perfect. There are a number of settings that can affect the final trap result, for instance, the black margin value (and a bunch of other settings). I don't know how much you have...

DeskPack tools for PhotoShop DeskPack tools for PhotoShop Esko's Ink Tools for Photoshop can provide you with quick image fixes for creating skeleton blacks and generally modifying saturations, etc. But their usefulness is diminished if you are imaging direct to a flexo plate due to the...

AE10 will ultimately replace Nexus and Odystar, but the initial versions don't have a lot of Nexus or Odystar functionality. As @Repro_is_still_alive states, currently the only Nexus-like functionality is ArtPro file support, which is still limited. AE10 workflows can now be built using an...

PDF Preflighting and Prinergy PDF Preflighting and Prinergy I thought Prinergy had a module that preflighted basically using Pitstop preflight profiles? Maybe not, if you aren't able to do this. I agree that having your customers know Acrobat Distiller could be useful, but I wouldn't rely on...

DCS File Output DCS File Output Since DCS files are a separated Postscript file format, once they have been placed in an application, they need to be printed to Separated Postscript. ArtPro can handle them, but you should be able to have success in an application such as QuarkXPress (not sure...

JDF to PDF module error You need to setup the folder mapping so that the system can find the JDF MarksFlat PDF that is created by the Imposition application. Make sure you are creating the imposition JDF and MarksFlat PDF files on the server where Nexus can find them (which it appears you are).