Didn't occurred to me such an option would be available -  if it's ripped it's rasterized right ? :-P  -
but now you mention, i'll check it out, it may be there.

Good day!

What kind of file do you send to the customer for approval?

I don't have to send any where i now work, but when i had to, i send a normalized pdf, prinect normalizer produced.

That was the client file, preflighted and ''fixed'' by prinect's normaliser tool.

Fixes, as far as i remember, were basic stuff, overprint black's , rgb's to cmyk, hairlines etc (and some not so basic, but i don't see the need for a book printer to buy a trapping license ).

If the client file ''passed'' the normalizer, it would rip through metadimension, so the normalised file is what he got to approve.

I'm doing some work on a small printer lately, who just bought a ctp, and a metadimension rip, and must sent approval files to his clients.

Till now, the approval files was sent to his clients from his film maker partner.

They are ''normalised'' files from prinergy or apogee, as i quickly checked.

Since i don't have a normaliser now, what would my options be, to send a safe pdf to the client?

The signastation pc arrived with acrobat dc and pitstop 18 installed.

Meta does have a pdf export, but a 5mb book file rips to 150mb at 300ppi - i don't like to think what file a color catalogue would produce-

Thanks in advance!

Quote from: joch230 on March 26, 2021, 01:01:04 PM

Quote from: Tracy on March 26, 2021, 11:30:35 AM
There is an action under global changes "Change Overprint"

OK. I do see that. It will allow you to overprint black or knockout white. What most people want when printing with ink. But I don't see it letting you tell it to knockout all black and overprinting colors like you can with Prinergy. See attached. With toner printers, you get muddied colors when you overprint black and some colors. I'm thinking there isn't a similar function in Pitstop.

But printing solid k - on konika 6085 or igen4 at least - you get a poor/weak black.
It's all right for type or small areas, but looks very ugly as an A4/letter page background.

- unless you're talking about solid k object half overprinting on ''rich'' background and half printing straight to paper.

Quote from: Joe on March 27, 2021, 07:54:54 AM
What exactly is it doing or not doing? I have a friend that had one that would power on but nothing on the display. Googled that and came up with several of the same solution which was to drop it display up on a carpeted floor until the display came back on. I tried it and dropped it several times and it voila it came on about the 5th time. If you try that just make sure it lands flat and not on a corner. That iPad is still being used and that was about 5 years ago.

( close enough) old school practices that work, real old school was to kick it, but that should work on a macpro i suppose....

No problem,

Everything apart from wages and job opportunities has improved since 2005.

Hi all,

In the printshop i worked a couple of years ago, i used to send the imposed pdf to metadimention from cockpit, then send meta send it to shooter, gave it a last check and send it to our ctp.

Now, there's a small shop who bought a ctp, signa/meta and shooter as ''standalone'' apps, and i'm trying to configure them.

Till now i've managed to send a test job from meta to shooter, creating a ''new'' job, then browsing for the imposed pdf, and then sending it to shooter.

I'd like some help on how to print/export straight from signa to meta and then meta sending a paused tiffb to shooter.

Thanks in advance.

Quote from: Just_A_Mac_Guy on November 06, 2020, 12:49:35 PM
There are lots of ads for Graphic people here in Toronto, but most have unrealistic expectations and are offered as entry level salaries. I assume they believe there is a large number of talent that is desperate to work for nothing.

Talented or not, there's a lot of desperate people around...

Good luck with your new start Andy! 

i've made the transition some-many- years earlier.
( felt bad aesthetically but fckin good economically )
;- )

you can trust them for the opposite!

i get that, still you might get a couple of 2017 licenses and do most of your work with them with the latest pitstop they can get and keep a single updated acrobat/pitstop.

That would save you some and get you through for 2-3 years i believe.

-i'm thinking cheap, cause i'm paid cheaper-
:- P 

I don't see any problem with that - discontinuing -.

Our prepress department is stuck on cs6 with out any major issues.

Since service bureau's died and we moved inside printshops, there's little time -if any- for prepress tech's to take full advantage of new tools/features - if any -.

''the production guy'' does all the production after prepress on his own?
- supplies orders, cut/feed the paper, print and postpress ? -
Maybe he won't mind if they close it...

best part is, if you try to complain, the csr only took 2 minutes break while you were working comfortably from your couch 

Don't miss ps days at all.

Any way, spot healing is my first choise, for easy stuff, then healing brush for larger areas.

If things are more serious, and the customer knows what to look to, i prefer the clone stamp and the airbrush, in their own layer(s).
Good/clever selections in steep color transitions are a must.

- i'm already tired -

Here there is trouble getting paid for ''normal'' overtime ( at work ).
- you make 40 hours, get paid for 30 two months later and then quarrel with the boss to get the rest 10-

Logging in from home is not considered overtime, it's giving a helping hand to the shop.

But the virus will stop a lot of shops doing it by shutting them down...
- even if you stop paying people you can't survive long with no jobs coming in-