Quote from: david on March 29, 2021, 12:51:46 PM
You just can't make a spot color and call it white and hope it works. The white ink color has a name at the RIP.

For example:
for my OKI_ the white is called "Spotcolor_white"
for the Indigo_ it's called "White1"
for the OCE flatbed printer_ it's called "Spot1"



and like Skryber, I always put it on top, set it to overprint, then send to the back at the printer.

Ours is "White". I did in the end figure out my problem, the spot white was set to over print the black which created a problem for some reason, when set to knock out it worked perfectly.

Having issues with a file not printing white here. I sent a file to our wide format guys, it is going on a clear window film. They wanted me to put white behind the store name so the colours would be more vibrant. I made a spot "white" at 100% and put it behind. Store name is set to over print the white. When printing it does not print the white but prints the colour. I have not had this issue before and have tried a bunch of things with no luck. Fairly new to using white so maybe I am missing something. Anyone have an idea why the white would not print? It is directly behind the store name text, you will not see any white when it is finished printing.

I will try the convert to plain text and give that a shot. On the forum people said it worked, but obviously have not tried it myself. It is basically supposed to place a multipage PDF on every other page in Indesign.

I was putting the script in the "sample" section. I have a few scrips I copy over with each new version of Indesign and have put this one in the same spot.

When hunting around for a solution to make life a bit easier with a specific job I came across someone who wrote a script that should do exactly what I need. The problem is I have no idea how to make this script into a .jsx file that will work in Indesign.

I am using the latest version of Indesign CC on a Mac running Mojave.

I copied and pasted the info from the website into textedit. I then saved as an RTF as txt is not an option. I then changed the extension to .jsx and put it in the appropriate folder. Indesign shows it but it is greyed out. I am assuming I have done something wrong here. Is there a correct way I should be making a .jsx file on a Mac that will work with Indesign?

This is the script I want:

(function () {
var curDoc = app.activeDocument,
allPages = curDoc.pages,
nPages = allPages.length,
curPage,
i,p,
newMaster = curDoc.masterSpreads.itemByName("B-Masterpage");

for (i = nPages-1; i >= 0; i--) {
curPage = allPages;
p = curDoc.pages.add({appliedMaster: newMaster});
p.move(LocationOptions.AFTER, curPage);
}
}) ();

Quote from: AaronH on June 04, 2020, 02:34:01 PM
Here's a dropbox link with INDD and an IDML, links and everything you'd need.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u5vz7oq8sr8270q/368.zip?dl=0

I extracted the PDF pages as separate files into my Links folder, then renamed them by replacing "368 " with no space in Finder. Otherwise your file names would be something like "368 1.pdf", "368 2.pdf" and so on.

I selected my .csv as my data source from the Data Merge window in InDesign. Then chose export to PDF from the Data Merge window's Menu.

Thanks!

I was dreaming that there might be some way in my imposition software to automate this a bit more. Looks like still a fair bit of hand work to make the excel file for the data merge.

Quote from: Joe on June 04, 2020, 11:38:19 AM
Unless I am missing something a saddle stitch template should back them up that way. How many press runs and pages per press run is this for?

If the page order was correct it would, in this case page 1 needs to have 368 on the back, 2 - 367, 3 - 366, etc.

I have attached a numbered PDF. This represents what I have received from the client. So page order really should be 1,368,2,367,3,366,4,365,5,364.....

Thanks!

I have never seen one or heard of this type of calendar. We have one to setup, it is 368 pages that will be made into a perpetual calendar. The issue is the file supplied is in order Jan 1, Jan 2, Jan 3, etc. The way it needs to be setup is page 1 is backed up by page 368, page 2 backed up by 367, page 3 backed up by 366, etc etc etc.

Anyone have any tips or tricks on doing this with a PDF? All I can come up with is re-ordering the PDF manually before imposing. I have an old version of preps and latest version of Imposition Studio Pro

Quote from: DigiCorn on April 14, 2020, 10:28:00 AM
Opened up my case yesterday and I literally had nothing in it except my old upgraded video card (a 1.5gb AMD). I forgot to unlock it, and broke the mechanism on the PCI slot removing it, but I had a plethora of other slots to utilize, so I just chose another. Noticed that while I have 8gb RAM, I still had 2 open slots, so I ordered 8 more GB RAM from Amazon for $67. I also found a 3rd HD that i installed, but never connected to the motherboard, so I did and just increased my storage capacity by 250gb, so now this computer has (will have 16gb RAM), a 1tb drive, a 500gb drive and the 250gb drive plus the upgraded video card and my bluray and dvd burners (x2). I think I originally built it about 10 years ago, but I think I can make it last another 5 at least. I did get the DP-to-HDMI adapter, and it's all working smoothly, so working from home just got even better.

$150 is pretty cheap for a GPU, or I am just used to the gaming ones. Not sure of the age of your computer as you didn't really give any specs i.e. CPU and GPU. Adding an SSD as your main boot drive will make a HUGE difference and have you wondering why you never did it before.

I have 1 TB NVME drive that is the size of a stick of RAM, mounts directly on the mother board. Was a little over $100 CDN, super fast, no cables to connect and room for one more just like it. These are the biggest and best change to computer hard ware I have seen in a long time.

At the new company I am with we have an HP Indigo. Prints really nice but seems to be missing features I am used to on the smaller digital presses. Ran a Versant 2100 before.

Now I have a variable job, about 5,000 records. I am imposing the merged files and sending it to the printer where it takes a long time. On our Versant I would make a Master page with all static info and then bring in a variable document which would be just the imprinted addresses. Would RIP super quick and be printing in no time. I tried searching for Indigo variable and only came up with an Indesign plugin which does not mimic what I would do simply on the Xerox. Are there any tools to do what I could do before on the Indigo? Or do they not have this functionality in the HP RIP?

We had a Versant 2100, so basically the same thing. Ran all day and night 12pt, 14pt, 16pt without issue. You should have zero issues with a 12pt stock. My favourite uncoated stock was Lynx, ran great, held alignment and prints looked fantastic on it.

Does anyone have a template for a wrap around sleeve that a 8.5 x 11 booklet/magazine could slip into? Looking for something for regular real estate jobs that come in, generally 12 pages. They want something high end. Looking at 2 options a wrap and a sleeve that would cover maybe half of the booklet from the bottom up. Seems like that would be easier for them to just put in their printed product rather then mess around glueing or taping closed a wrap.

not a lot of setup from scratch is done here with Preps. They have years and years of templates saved and it covers just about everything imaginable. If there is no template there is one close and just need to adjust it slightly. If there is something I would have to do from scratch I just use Imposition Studio. So quick and easy.

first I have ever used Preps, same with Apogee. I do prefer Imposition Studio, can set up anything in a flash. I use my impo software every now and then but want to learn what they have in the new place.

Have to connected to an old PC running Windows 2000... Professional! in order to use preps.

new to preps, basically working with templates that cover almost everything. I want to adjust a template that is set for 2 sides. I want to get rid of the back page and cannot figure out how to do that in preps. Using Preps 4.2.2

**edit**

I swear this happens 9/10 times I post a question, I figure it out after. Seems so counter intuitive to newer software! Also realize now that Preps is not part of Agfa but Kodak 

Quote from: DigiCorn on January 20, 2020, 11:10:53 AM
I LOVE the self-squaring setup on that platesetter. The last Screen I used, you had to line it up perfectly, or it'd punch crooked (or possible jam on loading). It had like a ruler on it where we marked it with opaque tape so you could load it centered.

We had a Screen 4100 and have a similar/identical AGFA unit at my new place. Never had an issue with crooked punches. We have a bit of marker showing the edge for our QM and 74 plates. I never have to be perfect, just close and it makes the adjustment needed.

The idea of going back to a process system just seems backwards to me. Maybe there are benefits but I do not want to deal with chemicals anymore, plus all the fun clean ups and filter changes. They brought it up here and the idea lasted about 5 seconds before everyone spoke up saying how bad an idea that would be.