Customers are asking for "Ripped PDF"

[t-pat]

I have 2 customers that I have sent the VPS program to years ago. They still haven't installed it.

it's not like they look at proofs of any kind anyway.

[m2r]

But it rarely, if ever, rears its head and it hasn't been a problem for us to proof in this manner.

We have lost the "this is what you will save over the life of the lease" a few times over - and it's only been a couple months.

[Joe]

I have 2 customers that I have sent the VPS program to years ago. They still haven't installed it.

I had a customer that wanted to see the screened files so I sent him the VPS software, walked him through installing it and sent him the VPS files. He called back complaining about the "pattern" in the files. I tried explaining rosette screen patterns to no avail.  In fact, he was threatening to pull his job out if the final printed piece looked like that. :laugh:

[David]

yeah, the biggest issue most have with previewing a "ripped" file is the horrible moire you get with a screened file on you monitor, the pattern is godawlful.

don't blame them for complaining, but you get what you asked for.

[Ear]

They could view actual pixels, 1:1, on a 60" flat screen, then they wouldn't get the nasty pattern.  :grin:

[Joe]

They could view actual pixels, 1:1, on a 60" flat screen, then they wouldn't get the nasty pattern.  :grin:

I'll pass that along next time. :laugh:

[Ear]

 :laugh:  :cheesy: We joke but I don't see things like this being so far fetched in the near future. Twenty years ago we scoffed at the thought of the soft proof. Now, big screens are not that expensive. Hell, I have a 37" LCD in my house and that's just a baby widescreen.

[Joe]

:laugh:  :cheesy: We joke but I don't see things like this being so far fetched in the near future. Twenty years ago we scoffed at the thought of the soft proof. Now, big screens are not that expensive. Hell, I have a 37" LCD in my house and that's just a baby widescreen.

We have 42" flat screen LCD TV's on all presses but our pressmen didn't like viewing the screened VPS even at that size so we have to make imposed PDF's for them to view. At the time we bought them two years ago the owner got a deal when buying 4 of them at the same time. He got all 4 for around $2,600. They are quite a bit cheaper today though.

[gnubler]

My iPad folds out to 37" so I can work in Adobe at the coffeeshop.

[Joe]

LIAR!

[Ear]

My iPad folds out to 37" so I can work in Adobe at the coffeeshop.

So it's the new iWizardSleeve?

[gnubler]

Yes. I tuck it up small when not in use.

[Ear]

Do you say "Go Go Gadget Meat Drapes" to get it to deploy?

[Sabrina The Turd Polisher]

  :laugh:

[gnubler]

It is wizardry. Magical. Like quark.