I ran out of the last roll of 13.3" film here today, so I replaced the roll with a 12" roll that was sitting on the shelf. I changed the spindle ends to center the 12" roll instead of 13.3" rolls, advanced it, then changed the width to 12.0 in the cassette manager in the Harlequin RIP. I went to image some film and the animation that usually shows the progress of each page as it is getting imaged does't change, and the length that is fed stays the same on the screen in thew RIP. The image setter reads "Printing", and film is advancing, but it doesn't end without me resetting it, and I can't cut or anything from the rip. I shut everything down and re-booted, and the same thing happens. I did finally see an error message on the QS itself for a moment that said "Filter Fault", but that was the only error and it went away. Does anyone know what is going on or what I can do to get it working? Thanks.

I am using a transmission densitometer for all my film measurements.

When I run production film, I have the calibration set selected for the resolution I use (I call it 2540a, and the resolution and lpi is 2540 @ 150 lines), and negitive media is checked so the film is imaged as a neg. When I print the calibration target I'm going into the Edit Page Setup and unchecking Negative in the Effects box. Then I'm going into the calibration manager, selecting the cal set (2540a) and unchecking the negative media box as well as changing the Measurement As drop down menu from positive % dot to negative %dot. The target images as a positive, and I take the densitometer readings as +dot. I enter the measurements, then I change everything back to negative media and negative % dot for production work. This just seems wrong to me, and like I said, I think that our halftones and quarter tones are imaging a lot darker than they should be, like 5% in the artwork seems to print closer to a 15% dot on press, much too dark to be simply from dot gain.

Yes, I am measuring with a good densitometer that reads density, +dot and -dot. Should I leave all the settings as negative, like they are for production work, when I image and measure the test strips? Right now I'm changing everything to say I'm running positive film when I calibrate, then when I have finished making the new calibration set and entering my measurements from the calibrated target, I switch everything back to negative media and negative dot. This doesn't seem right to me, but I'm not sure how I would go about leaving everything set to negative for calibration? Am I supposed to say it's negative media, negative dot, both? Then, do I use the densitometer to measure -dot? I just don't know what I am supposed to be doing to calibrate negative film. I'm sure the answer is incredibly simple, because all of the possible options are simple. I just don't know what the answer is. Positive dot and positive plate/press sheet calibration is easy because there are no options, but I'm not sure what I need to do differently working with negative film linearization. Can you follow my question, because it seems like my wording is making it sound way more complicated than it needs to be.

Please let me know if this is the wrong place for this post.

When calibrating a Heidleburg image setter for negative film using the Harlequin RIP, what am I supposed to do as far as calibrating for negatives? I have options in the page setup for the 2540/150lpi to check or uncheck negative film, and I have options in the Print Calibration window to Manage calibration as Positive %dot or Negative %dot as well as a box to check for negative media. The notes I have from the last prepress tech say to do all the calibration as positive and positive %dot, then to only check the negative media to image the film after calibration is complete. This doesn't seem right to me, and it seems like all the halftones and quarter tone screens image darker than they should be. At my last job I only worked with RIPping direct to a QM-DI and a Trendsetter CTP plate maker, so I'm not confident in what I'm doing with negative film calibration. Does anyone know what I should be doing to calibrate for negatives, as far as imaging and measuring %dot with the intent of running negs and not positive film? Thanks in advance for any help, and I apologize if this post is confusing.

Can Type Tool be used for this, or will I need Typographer? We have Type Tool here, and it lets me view the licensing info. but so far the fonts I've opened and checked haven't shown anything in the licensing info for me to remove.

Thanks for the replies. I forgot I asked this one on this forum, but I still haven't gotten around to finding a solution or workaround.

The problem is I'm using MyOrderDesk for customers to fill in their own business cards company-wide, with PDF forms I made from their InDesign templates. Their designers own the fonts, and the printing company I work for owns the fonts, but certain fonts that they use in some of their jobs need to be embedded without restriction in order for MyOrderDesk to make a true soft proof on their end, If I had to typeset all the orders on my end, and email proofs to every employee, our current automated system would be useless and I'd have to take on a second shift. I'll give Fontographer or Fontlab a try. If one of those will let me remove the restrictions on those fonts, maybe I can get my boss to stop telling me to downgrade my workstation from OS 10.8 to 10.3 to run Classic to be able to run old ass versions of Acrobat that he claims embeds all fonts without any restrictions.

I've been searching all morning with no real luck. I guess we used to use Acrobat 5.0.5, in OS X 10.3 w/ Classic running, to create editable forms with embedded licensed fonts. Now I'm trying to do the same with Acrobat 5.0.5 in OS 10.5.8 but I'm getting licensing errors. Is there any way to work around restricted font embedding in Acrobat, either 5.0.5, 8, or 9 in OS X 10.5.8 so customers can edit fillable fields using Gill Sans Bold? I've noticed that there seems to be a difference depending on whether it's TT or T1, but that doe's help me since there will be several other restricted fonts that I will probably need. Thanks.

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

I just started working at a new printer that has a Konica Minolta Bizhub Pro C500 run with Creo IC-301Print Controller. It's pay per click for color and for gray, and has a check box that lets you decide which when you print a document. I need to print a book that has both color pages and B&W pages, and I want to do it at once so they are collated, but I can't find out how, or if it's even possible. Does anyone know about this? Thanks