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    Crop marks moving with creep

    Thank you, I will try that, the template had JDF Automatching May have been changed when we upgraded to Prinergy 10.
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    Something Wicked This Way Comes

    The owners of the website should offer the domain name to Matel for a massively inflated price :D
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    Crop marks moving with creep

    I asked this question some time ago on GUA, but have never received a response Hopefully I'll have more luck here: When preparing impositions via Preps, the setting "-SHINGLECROPMARKS:NO" in the PrepsPrinergy.cfg file is honoured When using Prinergy SIgnature Selection and applying creep, the...
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    Scanner that can read Kodak Sonora Xtra plates

    Another print shop near us had to go back to wet plates after switching to Sonora when they installed a Koenig & Bauer 105 press, the registration cameras on the press cannot read the targets on Sonora plates.
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    PDF x-4 compliance and conversion

    This is a good start https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Understanding+Color+Management%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119223634
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    Kodak quantum 400 ll

    Multi Cassette Unit
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    cmyk print sequence

    When I was an apprentice printer, I was taught that printing black last could shade or darken the images, printing yellow last would give a superior gloss to the print Of course, we were printing 4 colour jobs on Heidelberg Cylinders and Vertical Meihles at the time ;) I have always printed...
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    Production Manager position accepting applications (Bloomington, IN)

    The link provided requests a login to Indiana University
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    Is the Xerox Versant 180 good enough?

    You're original specification of 64pp is correct, you should always specify the total number of printed, finished size pages in a book, never try to specify printed flat sheets, you will just cause confusion. 64pp CAN be produced on a booklet maker or collate/stitch/bend/trim machine such as a...
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    Toner Plan Printers

    Most manufacturers have moved entirely to inkjet for large format. The Canon Plotwave is the only on I know of still using toner https://www.canon-europe.com/business/products/large-format-printers/plotwave-3000-series/
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    bump curve

    Has your densitometer been calibrated? Is it set to the correct colour reading? Are you reading a solid area from the same sheet prior to reading the screen? If all of the above are correct, then you most likely have a problem with ink roller settings, fountain settings or pressure. Check all of...
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    bump curve

    Can you share a bit more information about your workflow, how plates are exposed etc. Whether plates are positive or negative, wet plates or DOP?
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    Two Location Challenge - Plus Perfector Challenges

    If your Harlequin Rip has the ability to send CIP3 as 1 file per sheet instead of 1 file per surface, then you will get a combined PPF file with front and back together, otherwise you're stuck with having to recombine in the PPC server. Sending the CIP3 files or the ripped data for plating...
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    digital press to offset cmyk+2

    On the Indigo, select the appropriate FOGRA standard as the printing standard
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    digital press to offset cmyk+2

    Is your offset press printing to a standard (eg FOGRA) If so, you should be able to match the same standard on the Indigo.
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    Kodak Magnus 400 Quantum installation

    The Magnus does not have a Rip, it takes output from your workflow, that may be 1 bit Tiff or direct print to Expo. The 1 bit Tiffs need to come from that workflow.
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    After the Holiday

    Public holiday in Australia and the only times we use the word "vacation" is for its correct usage in the English language (as opposed to North American English) 1: A fixed holiday period between terms in universities and law courts 2: The action of leaving something one previously occupied. eg...
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    How do you transport plates to the pressroom?

    We use the trolley from an old stacker and a couple of benches on wheels with the plates flat in the original boxes
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    Guillotine downgrade

    I'm sure there are some old periscope type machines still around, you don't need the electronics or the programming to work for these, in fact I have seen many where the magnetic tape encoder had completely worn out and they were just used as a manual guillotine. There are also a few Eastern...

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