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    Variable Click Charges, Color Profiles, and Service Contracts

    We've always had to manually set the color pages in the Media tab of the Fiery rip because Preps marks are registration color and will generate a color click charge on grayscale pages otherwise. Since the marks color is a global setting in Preps, if you set them to Grayscale there your spot...
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    PrePress Technician in Southern Connecticut

    Hello community. Looking for a job in Southern CT area. I have over 30 years experience in printing, with the last 25 in electronic prepress. My last few positions included pre-flighting, color correction, page assembly, data merge for variable printing, imposition, creating automated workflows...
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    Evo 5.1.6 workflow file location

    I checked there, it is under PgyEvoConfig/Preps/Templates and only seems to have the .tpl templates. The workflow templates can be manually exported from the Prinergy Template editor (not to be confused with the Workflow editor available from the Prinergy Client). These files export as .xml and...
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    Evo 5.1.6 workflow file location

    I have over 200 Evo workflow templates to automate refining and imposing various sizes of pdfs/sheet sizes, mostly for digital. I had been successfully backing them up by Exporting them from the template editor, always ending up with over 200 files in the workflow export. At some point this...
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    Prinergy Evo 5.x workflow creation

    Thanks Steve! We did not have that Preps pdf. Does anyone have the Prinergy Evo 5.x pdf? That might explain the Evo workflow creation after you have the Preps templates made. Nobody at the new shop seems to have a Kodak log in.
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    Prinergy Evo 5.x workflow creation

    I am currently working with Prinergy Evo 5.169 and Preps 5.33 creating some workflow templates that will automate some basic jobs. When I create an imposition in the Evo template editor, under Preps Impostion Planning, I only see the templates that are in one of the subfolders under...
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    Adjusting element widths easily

    Adjusting element widths easily Wow, it sure did take a long time to catch up with Illustrator!. Hasn't Illustrator had the reference point since about version 4? Because it's so much hassle to make simple adjustments to elements in Pitstop, I often outline the type and just open in...
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    Adjusting element widths easily

    I have both Pitstop 7 and Pitstop 8 on different computers. When trying to simply adjust the width of a fill box it seems you have to adjust by changing the top left, size, top right coordinates in the inspector pallet. Is there an easier way to do this or can newer versions of Pitstop...
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    Permanent Crop Pitstop and or Acrobat

    permanent crop permanent crop When you say you can't do a permanent crop why does it matter if it's not permanent? I thought you could always change the crop and that the crop was just what is viewed in Acrobat or however you are viewing. I just tried cropping a 8.5 x 11 page to the bottom...
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    Prep 5.1 won't recognize new custom eps marks

    I have created some new marks and saved as .eps from Illustrator as a version 10 eps. I also saved it as a pdf but this is probably not necessary given our Rampage workflow. I added the mark with Setup, add custom mark. When I go to place the new mark, I see it in the folder but it is grayed...
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    InDesign CS5.5 Export Print PDF font problem

    We just had a strange font problem using InDesign CS5.5 on Mac OSX 10.5.8. The fonts were in the Document fonts folder which resides in the same folder as the document. Opened the document, checked fonts, none missing and everything matched the customers supplied reference pdf. Exported a print...
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    Acrobat - locked PDFs - RIP

    Have you thought about converting the type to outlines?
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    Adobe 5.5 upgrade

    SoftwareMedia.com still has CS5.5 Design Standard Mac in stock for about $390 and you get the free upgrade to CS6. I would wait till they updates to CS6 are out before upgrading to 6 though
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    No line screen needed?

    No line screen needed.. No line screen needed.. they could be running the banners on an inkjet printer like an Epson 9600, or similar. These printers do sort of a dithered pattern and do not have a normal screen pattern like an offset press would.
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    changing a 4 colour gradient to a spot gradient

    One other thing you could try, if your rip has this capability, is to see if you can pick the 2 dominant process colors used and remap these to 2 spot colors for output. Prinergy and Rampage can do this though I'm not sure if what you're using can.
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    changing a 4 colour gradient to a spot gradient

    I would try to open it in Adobe Illustrator, add the spot colors and adjust it there.
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    Rampage Upgrade costs

    Another advantage of NORM Another advantage of NORM One other advantage of a NORM workflow, whether thru Rampage or Prinergy is that if you have to send out a job that you are not printing yourself, lets say for a sheetsize that you can't handle or to a larger digital press, etc., you can...
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    Text gets sent to back or invisible

    text gets sent to back... text gets sent to back... Hi, I think what is probably happening is that the picture that you are dragging from one document to another has a runaround set. To check, select the picture box, select Item>Runaround (com-T) and make sure it is set to None. The default...
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    Rampage Upgrade costs

    NORM workflow NORM workflow The idea behind sending a vector pdf directly from the workflow is that the customer can actually zoom up and see the type and artwork elements, spot color separations, etc. The pdf will have been normalized by the RIP and the fonts embedded or outlined and the...
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    Prinergy 4.0 Compatible with Mac OS 10.6

    Prinergy 4 comp w 10.6 Prinergy 4 comp w 10.6 I'm not sure of all the specifics but I know that there are issues with the version of Java. I think you will need to install Java 1.5 update 7 (but not update 8?). There are some threads on this on the GUA/Kodak forums. I use Prinergy Evo 4.0.67...

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