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Have done several runs of a flood back business card. The client must be noticing rub when keeping them in a wallet as they are now requesting Dull Aqueous flood over the back. Do they really think small offset printers have Dull Aqueous capability? After several long deep sighs I mentally...

Anyone have much to say pro or con for Unibind Steelbooks? We dabbled in it many years ago but the customer service was not able to satisfy real-world needs. I occasionally take in an order for a few books. A client wants 300 books. The sample they brought with them appears to be a Unibind...

Bizhub C6000 IC-413 Embedded Controller All the Fiery extra's - Colorwise Pro Tools, Profiler, Productivity Package, etc. I've noticed light grays output are objectionably yellow, far from neutral, far from wysiwyg. (values 7-7-7-7) This particular job I've cranked the yellow curve waaay down...

I've been asked to print (wedding) invites for another shop, Pantone 7708. I informed them my (old) book does not include that color, that I would eyeball the ink density/color and that they would be responsible for providing either the ink or a formula. Their reply - "Pantone 7708C...

Legacy artwork I'd prefer to go digital with. A Black & white pdf (scan) previously plated, now RIP'd to Fiery With Fiery Image Viewer, I have only black can I re-color this? I could PS it, but trying to keep it (more) simple. What is your workflow for previously setup legacy black & white...

Not the kind of thing I expect people want to admit to...self included, but We purchased a TEC Lighting stand alone, hand fed coater and use it on demand; frequently 20-50 pieces, occasionally several hundred. Perhaps three jobs one day, three days shut down. I'll admit to being remis about...

I've been corresponding with someone met via forums similair to this one and have gone beyond my expertise. Effectivly it started as a band-aid approach to where - The person assembles a larger (book) document from supplied (pdf) files. The normal scenerio applies. Some files are poorly...

Fiery Impose for a bleeding BCD on 9 x 12 is making my head ache... Anyone using it sucessfully?

I am trying to match a sample; situation - A local shop has produced a letterhead on Bizhub 6501. The rep for the end user has provided us pdf file. I have produced a sample on my Bizhub 5500. The file uses a gradient, yellow which starts at 0,3,13,0. All my colors are spot on to the sample...

Does anybody have any insight as to a best pdf joboption for going to a Fiery RIP/Bizhub Pro c5500? Tomorrow a customer will be bringing in a 32 page book file created in Photoshop. To my understanding, a Photoshop PDF will mainting live type, which I think will keep the file size at best. But...

Whilst I ponder wasting some plates - I could use some techy help. A 3x5 pocket card, for sketching, is composed of a graph, off the press, the lines appear uneven. I had a 50/50 chance this would happen. I set strokes, .5pt, 20% tint (black) Stepped at .10487 inch (near as I can tell. To...

Shamefully, I'll admit it...I may go months without cleaning my Rapline 17 processor. We process 5 mil poly plate material. I have noticed, after cleaning with warm water & processor cleaner over the years, that scratches could be seen after cleaning. Depending on the press they went to, the...

This machine manual leads me to believe, but I have been unsuccessful, at installing via TCP/IP without Appletalk. Hardware RIP, nothing external. Is this possible? The inputs for the machine (I have two identicle) are Imagesetter, Ethernet, Centronics, RS232C & Local Talk. I have enabled TCP/IP...