After sitting unused on the floor for a year, just threw out our old Apogee Server with Dynastrip a few months back.
Think it may have been version 6-ish though
Supremely useful statement I know.

Though I may have kept the dongel....

Quote from: DigiCorn on February 27, 2024, 07:49:04 PM

Quote from: Tracy on February 23, 2024, 08:10:32 AMHey that sound like a good feature overprint on plate and knockout on the proof!
I never knew it could do that!

Just keep in mind, Black should ALWAYS overprint. Unless you're sending to a 2-color press with a common blanket. Like a Heidelberg Quickmaster POS.

Yep, used to work with a QM, but we also force knockout black when printing spot colours on plasticised stock (like Polyart) because it does not absord the ink, and set-off becomes a problem.
There is only so much spray powder you can use

Quote from: pabney on February 21, 2024, 08:33:19 AMSure. All this does is ensure that any of the various die line names we use are set to overprint. We don't use XMF to convert our colors to cmyk.

Thanks. Hopefully I can figure out the syntax to add our Keylines, we have years of history with this spot colour.

Quote from: DCurry on February 21, 2024, 08:43:34 AMNot used XMF, but in its color library where you define how to treat the color are there options like Transparent or Dieline? Prinergy and Prinect let you define that and it informs the rip how to handle it. Classifying as dieline means it always overprints, never plates, and allows colors underneath to trap to each other.

You'd think, but sadly only the not plating part.
I see there is a default action in XMF "Dieline remap and overprint", but no documentation or description.

Converting to CMYK using an action, makes keeping KEYLINE spot (and overprint) difficult, however when we converted using colour setting, it was converting 100K black to 4 colour black when trapping over a (converted) spot colour.

Quote from: pabney on February 20, 2024, 01:47:43 PMWe use a Pitstop action loaded in the job preflight section to set any of our die line colors to overprint.

I hadn't considered that.
I guess I could also use an action to exclude the dieline from converting to CMYK - with a whole lot of research.
Don't suppose you have a copy of that script?
Cheers

Hi All,
We use a custom Spot Colour "KEYLINE" (M: 100; Y: 30) to indicate perf lines and other printing marks.
We want this colour to show on our soft proofs, but not appear on our plates, nor knock out.
We have defined this colour in Ink Management as a Die Line, and set it to not print.
It does not show on plates from the spot colour queues, however it does knock out.
On the CMYK queues this spot is converted to process and appears on the plates. CMYK colour conversion is done using action list in Preflight.
Is there any way to have this colour ALWAYS be spot AND overprint, never appearing on the plates or interacting with any other ink.
We had this system in place on Apogee before moving to XMF about a year ago, with rushed installation/training.
Thanks
another antipodean

Anyone with a 27" iMac affected by Apple's 3TB Hard Drive recall, be aware.

I sent my iMac (OS 10.8, Mountain Lion) off for this replacement - it came back with updated firmware and OS 10.10.4 (Yosemite) installed.
Apparently the problem is with the OS / Firmware rather than the fusion drive itself.
There is no mention of this update anywhere on Apple's recall (in fact, it says you will need to re-install your OS).

Normally an free update is a good thing, but; Pitstop 10 doesn't work under Yosemite. It has caused a few other issues as well.
We had been deliberately avoiding Mavericks for this reason.
We are now up for new Pitstop, new Acrobat, new Acronis server software, and need to update the other iMacs OS, Pitstop, Parallels, Acrobat etc to keep them consistent.

BE AWARE!