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#1
Macintosh / Re: Mac OS Install 2024
September 10, 2024, 02:00:41 PM
maybe 6 or 8.   ^-^
#2
Macintosh / Re: Mac OS Install 2024
September 09, 2024, 12:30:08 PM
no worries, go for it. 

:woot:
#3
Macintosh / Re: Mac OS Install 2024
September 09, 2024, 11:35:15 AM
Quote from: Tracy on September 09, 2024, 11:15:54 AMOk, I'm seriously thinking about doing the install
does anyone know of any issues with Sonoma?

mine runs great (24" iMac, M1 chip, 16gb RAM, Sonoma 14.6.1).

Most of my prepress work is through a VNC connection, even with that I thinks it's way faster than my previous Mac.

#4
Macintosh / Re: TIME MACHINE!
September 04, 2024, 01:37:30 PM
just had my external Seagate 1tb drive die, had to get a new one for Time Machine, got a Toshiba 2tb, works great (same price as the 1tb 2 years ago).

I think I have had to use Time Machine a total of 4 times in my life.



My middle name is Lucky
8)
#6
Fujifilm XMF / Re: Overlapping pages lose bleed
August 23, 2024, 09:38:38 AM
I don't use XMF but most imposition programs do not support a "nested" style impo.

You will need to do it in an external program (Indesign or Illustrator) then place the nested file in the impo.

#7
General Prepress / Re: HOTMETAL - Contact Me
August 13, 2024, 10:41:03 AM
weird, click the Flag and it's a news link from 2 years ago.
#8
General Prepress / Re: HOTMETAL - Contact Me
August 12, 2024, 03:52:44 PM
semaphore?

#9
General Prepress / Re: HOTMETAL - Contact Me
August 12, 2024, 03:05:49 PM
have you tried emailing him with the address in his profile?
#10
General Prepress / Re: Scanning Oversized Negatives
August 01, 2024, 11:01:08 AM
The largest format is 8x10, normally a 4x5 is considered large format (that you can buy). There are custom cameras that can be larger, not usually on the open market.

When I was a shooting photographer (taking pics of Dinos) I used a 35mm with ton's of lenses.
I always wanted a 4.25 Hasselblad square format, never was able to afford one tho.

#11
General Prepress / Re: Scanning Oversized Negatives
August 01, 2024, 09:13:41 AM
We run film on a Liberator here, 28 inch  roll, for silkscreen, and these would be seps. 
I have no idea what you would use film for other than that now-a-days. 


40 inch color negative?  never seen one
#12
General Prepress / Re: Scanning Oversized Negatives
August 01, 2024, 07:35:08 AM
I always put a 12 inch ruler next to what I'm taking a pic of so I can check the size when I get it on the screen.
#13
General Prepress / Re: Scanning Oversized Negatives
July 31, 2024, 02:37:54 PM
have to do a Tom Cruise Mission Impossible and hang from the ceiling to do that!  LOL
#14
General Prepress / Re: Scanning Oversized Negatives
July 31, 2024, 10:26:07 AM
Quote from: Slappy on July 31, 2024, 01:28:52 AMSo, it appears we've "acquired" a shop that has an extensive library of - negatives. Yup, and many of them are large, 30-40" and I don't expect there are prints I have scanned. is there anybody who even does negative scanning anymore to digital?
when I worked at Williamson, we had a ton of 30x40 (literally 20 years worth) films that we generated that they wanted to "digitize" to preserve for future reprints. 
After a while they blew it off and told customers if they wanted reprints, they would need to supply digital files.

Not worth the effort, to scan the seps (usually as a bit map), open in photoshop, recombine back to cmyk, save out.

rinse repeat a bazillion times.
#15
General Prepress / Re: HOTMETAL - Contact Me
July 30, 2024, 09:01:32 AM