Quote from: Joe on April 22, 2015, 09:38:39 PMYes indeed black set to overprint will allow the underlying tone to "show through" and it will affect the look of the black. And yes you would probably see the squares in the black over the red and white rectangles. We force black overprint on text that is 12 pt. and smaller and force knockout under anything larger than 12 pt.

Agreed. Although we have set our auto-tolerance for black overprint to 24pt and below. All depends on the artwork, but this has worked well for my (employers) shop.

The attached image shows my issue (shot with a camera through a loupe).
This is a Ricoh 901+ (aka-Linoprint)
I can only recall ONE other time that we had a 'mis-registration' like this.
I will talk to the service tech to see what his recommendation is if it's something in the machine that needs 'tweaking' or 'twerking'.
Thanks for your replies.

Just curious if folks with digital printers ever see the need to TRAP a file for printing (spreads, chokes).
I recently had a digital print job with RED TEXT (100m100y) printing over a greyscale image, and I had leaks a the bottom edge of type. I turned on auto-trapping in my Fiery properties, but did not see improvement.

Very familiar with trapping for offset jobs, but for digital print I have only ever needed to adjust black overprint settings...till this job.
Maybe this is a sign that my digital press needs some service/adjustment? or in certain situations you will just have this? 

Bossman wants to try printing on a synthetic stock on our Epson 9880 or Canon iPF8400s.
I have personally never used other stocks than coated paper on these devices, as we are using them primarily for color managed pre-press proofing only.

My question to those with experience...
A. Is this possible on these engines, knowing that they are not solvent or UV printers...just using "Aqueous?" pigmented inks?
B. If A is possible, do you have a recommendation for a stock to try?
C. If you gave answer to B, can you print both sides of this stock?
D. If any of this is possible...would you say this would be a water-resistant print?...say something hanging outdoors, but covered by an awning, little direct sun, and occasional rain spray (or what would you say about the durability of such a print?)

I'm asking 'cause I don't know, please feel free to post candidly....thanks!
(my gut tells me that these aren't the devices for this type of print....but...)

Don't overlook the MacMini line.
OK, I have 2 - 27" imacs the operation, but the remaining 20+ macs are mini's (and they do work for prepress)
I used to like the imac line, but after being burned by a few models with bad capacitors or powersupplied...I gave up on them. It's sad when you have a mac with a built-in display that becomes a doorstop when bad stuff happens. (also, apple now uses glues, welds, tapes, and voodoo to keep the new imacs about as UNFRIENDLY a computer to open up...fix...tinker...)
I like to be able to use/re-use monitors...and the minis just rock..

Is that (Endurance) an XpedX rebrand of The Fuji Ecomaxx? If so, we use the Ecomaxx-T plates and have had great success with them (used to use LH-PJ chem plates).
Ecomaxx has a very light latent image, so pressmen have to look a little more for our plate ID's, but you can see them.
Once pressmen figured out the best way to 'develop/run' these, it was dead simple, and consistent to our PJ plate experiences.
Used Agfa processless for a few months, and like the fact that you could really see the plate image...mainly because you running them through a water/gum processor before press....we wanted NO PROCESSING in prepress at all, and the Ecomaxx is it.

You can keep'em going. We still run a lot of jobs on our 9880.
Had the printhead replace and some other components ( a pump cap assembly or something like that?)
Anyhow, used Decision One (contact through Espson) - and it took care of our issues....at that time....

Just went through the EXACT scenario you describe (we were using 6.5 as well).
Saved about $100 here : http://www.rpimaging.com/enfocus-pitstop-pro-12-upgrade.html

my solution for redundancy for our OSX server was to purchase 2- identical modern mac-minis (w/thunderbolt and SSD's). They have more than enough horsepower to serve all our files, w/5 to 10 people working files off the server all day long. (the redundant mini is my workstation, but I can fire up the server account that I set up, plug in our raid, and be back in business in case of a power supply or SSD failure...
Previous had a Xserve G4 with the Xraid box...it was a beast and it lasted a good 10years (only retired because the 'old' os on the xserve would not connect properly to Win7/Win8 boxes in our environment)

If you need a 1U option, there are many rackmount kits for the minis

currently run a 'headless' mac mini 10.8.5 server (2.6 GHZ dual i7 - 8gb Ram) with a 256SSD drive for the OS, and a Pegasus Thunderbolt connected raid box. Runs fine for all our file serving. A few problems initially with SMB shares to an ancient machines (i.e. win2000), but works fine with XP and 7/8 machines...although 'most' of our transactions are from Macs. Also serves data our Rampage Workflow and Proofing options (GMG and IMPOproof). No experience with AD stuff...we keep it simply for serving our job files.
VNC to server to 'see' stuff, or use the server admin apps from remote mac...

I would check your preps config Rampage setup. Sounds like something is amiss (plate dimensions, rotation, tiling)? Check the Rampage documentation for proper Preps configuration.
 (ALSO, are you placing the full-res single page data.... or (hopefully) FPO-EPS files, or JDF FPOs?)

Quote from: Nick Burns on October 07, 2014, 02:19:14 PMThanks mwc, looks good on pricing until I saw the per user fees.

FYI-The per user fees (clients) are for concurrent connections. You can have as MANY people as you want as users, just x of x can login at the same time (we have 40+ users, and 14 sessions and works fine (for us.)

Also, used to use a homespun filemaker kludge that got us thru about 15 years. Then, finally made the decision to move-up to a solution that didn't involve a great deal of my 'extra' time to get more robust feature sets. looked at Avanti, EFI-Pace and a slew of others...but not willing able to pay to HIGH prices that these vendors required....settled on a nice-priced solution called PrintPoint (www.printpoint.com). It has taken us to the next level without too much disruption. As with every system, there a things I love, and things I hate, and 'stuff' i would like it to do 'better'...but I the larger view of economical solutions that do what we need it to do...it is a winner.
Client/Server based 4D solution for Mac/PC. Not browser based.

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Quote from: wagsgraphx on March 26, 2014, 04:11:20 PMSince Fuji will no longer be supporting Rampage my employer is looking at switching over to the XMF system.
Anybody running on the XMF system that used to be on Rampage?
Any pros or cons?
Your feed back is appreciated.

I would like to re-poke this thread to see if any additional info is lurking out there....?
1. If you converted from Rampage to XMF, how are you dealing with exact reruns of existing RSI data? Is there a input/conversion in XMF or are you using your legacy Rampage for this....or are you just 'redoing' the job in XMf?
also,
2. If you run digital presses as well as offset, are you using XMF for both operations?
3. Is there anything like the 'proof compare' feature from Rampage in XMF?
4. Thumbs Up ,Down, or Sideways for efficiency compared to Rampage?
5. Are you happy LeBron is going back to the Cavs?