You can get a few years old MacBook and still install Windows on it. If you believe that the MacBooks are better hardware then that is a good solution. I travel with a 15" 2006 and is really long on the tooth but still chugging. One bonus on looking at older machines - all the bugs are identified and the lemons exposed.

Quote from: pspdfppdfx on August 07, 2014, 03:21:10 PMif you are an older guy wearing ten hats, do you play that up or down cause ya dont wanna look over qualified, ie. expensive.... just askin is all....

havent had a new resume in over 10 years is all....

I am in the same town and have passed out a few already. The trend is to pay the least and hire the just graduated from RU. Last one I saw yesterday was 1-2 years experience and that was for a Prepress Manager position with up to 20 people. If you can do packaging prepress there are quite a few but the jobs are far from me.

First thought is to visit the on line vendors like Vista Print or Go4Color for example and see what the on-line price is and then see if you can get a value added price boost for the fact you actually answer the phone. Worked for me - everyone shops the on line vendor and then understands after a mistake the value of the person on the phone. Remember to add the delivery cost to their price if you are selling local with pickup.

Let us know how you are making out. Print is a rough industry and the extra help on this forum can keep the gray hairs away. Bartender - a drink for the new member. Welcome to the Forum.

ps - Forgot another thought - if your service is faster than someone else's then it is worth something - if you want the slower delivery high volume model - take away some from the final price. Quality, service and price -it use to be that you could only get two - now everyone is giving one away and trying to make the other two pay. Good luck.

Wondering out loud whether the app knows the press is "attached" - perhaps power up the press before starting the PC, perhaps check that the connecting cable is not AWOL.

I have only seen this once - we had  a wider verison. They used a carpenter square and squared the blade to the RHS from the OP perspective. There are 4x1 inch bolts under the table and inside the shroud that align the table to the frame. Once through this stage then the back gauge to the side frame after the large bolts are locked back down. Took about a half hour for a service tech.

Quote from: Tracy on March 27, 2014, 02:58:11 PMjust found out they are folding to 8pg sigs now and then binding. 16pg sigs for this paper was ridiculous
the paper is 80lb cover for the whole book (80pgs and they have an image 1/32 close to the edge

My inner production fairy is ringing - are they still THINKING they can fold 80# cover from an 8pp signature? Never in my 25+ years has that been done without creasing on the inside pages - impossible. Same goes for 100# paper. Never. For cover weight, I have had to do 4pp and multiple pass thru perfect binder if necessary. I am smelling a FUBAR here.

Just for S&Giggles ask the press operator if he would prefer a trapped silver dot to a reverse of dark Blue. Eyes should rollup ...

I second the second drive concept BUT I would make it external using Firewire or TBolt. Last think to noodle out is the backup of the backup somehow. It use to be tape, then dvd then ...

On a small press - think about the form roller circumference. Ink load is strongest at the head and weakest at the tail I think it goes. Are you feeding the sheet 8.5 into the gripper or the 5.5? We fed the 8.5 into a Printmaster when we had one.

Try turning the grads so they are head to foot - ie the grads are next to each other rather than a 4" step apart. Putting a large ink take out bar at the bottom of the form may help, forcing the press to require more ink on the rollers rather than less, for a light colour.

Another idea is the blanket may be tired and there may be a depression ("smash") area - that would yield more and less pressure over the area of the sheet.

Quote from: agent_orange on January 09, 2014, 10:18:21 AM"rips are heavily registry dependent so the xp simulation might not be compatible"

= annual service contract = must be this or that = major money maker = fear = dealer control 

So I am showing my age  and there was a window years ago when saving out of Illy I believe. Anyways I visited and tested out on the noobs site and the .7 held but the thicker lines scaled down proportionally. So my only guess is there is a floor line thickness and no lines scale below that - making it "printable". We are proceeding to proof next... when they stop foolin' with the artwork.

I have a noob designer and he is working in Illustrator 5 on PC making architectural drawings. The drawing is done to size and has a .7 (point 7) stroke. In INDD he places the item and saves using a PDF preset I built so I get all the goods.

My spidey senses is reminding me about strokes being reduced proportionally from long ago. In INDD this illustration is at 30% so the question is what happened to that warning window I remember asking me if I wanted to scale lines when it was being saved? Will the .7 be scaled to 30% of .7? It looks good in the trial PDF but trying to be cautious before it goes live.

Does this box in the PDF preset have any bearing?

Adobe here as well. That would explain why a new CC arrived about 2 weeks ago.

I seem to remember that Dell has it's 12 Days of Deals Christmas sale and some products are great prices. The sale is not active but arrives within the next 2 weeks I think - at least here in Canada

we must be talking about different machines - on my I peeled back the front cover after taking out the screws (from the back) and never used plastic cards at all.