Quote from: DigiSig on May 20, 2011, 08:40:27 AMa) how's the registration on backup with that Fiery? Does it skew like the one we have?
b) any idea what you pay per click (is it Ray Morgan, or who do you use?)
c) what's the heaviest stock you can feed through it?
d) is color consistent on re-run orders (even with regular paper calibration and set curves, we have trouble matching previous jobs months later)?

The registration is pretty good if you create a custom tray alignment. It's not perfect, but very good on most stocks. IMO the skew settings on the Fiery aren't worth messing with. Generally it works best formatting work to work and tumble instead of a work and turn, at least that's the way the machine is set up to run. If I'm having issues with front to back registration I usually correct them on my work station after running a test sheet. Not for skew, but for nudging up, down, left or right.

We use Xerox and pay about $0.08 per click for color, and $0.03 for grayscale USD. At least that's what I'm told. We have an auto-replenishment contract with Xerox.

The heaviest stock we run is 110# Classic Crest, which is out of spec (too heavy) by a few gsm. One side at a time, and grain direction is important. The paper path takes a sharp turn at the end before the OCT, so it's important that the sheet be able to bend. This is the case with all heavier uncoated cover stocks, and anything that you are auto-duplexing.

I've found that the best way to keep color consistent from month to month on critical color jobs is to build a custom set of curves on the Fiery. Some of the toughest jobs we have are made into a snap with calibration and application of a custom profile. I've never needed to make custom stock profiles to go along with those.

Quote from: DigiSig on May 18, 2011, 12:35:35 PMAnyone on here running a Xerox 5000? I'm supposed to research it and see how you like it.

 We run a DC 5000 with EXP50 Fiery rip. I've been running it for a couple years and have put a couple million clicks on it. What do you want to know?
 

Ya, we have some clients that use Open Source or free PDF
creators. I see this in the document properties from these
clients. They mostly use a MS Office application for
layout, then these free creators to make their pdf files.
I often have the exact problems you're having when
trying to edit raster images contained in them. The other
thing I find annoying is how it encodes the fonts. In many
cases Acrobat can't identify which fonts are contained
in the pdf. Sounds like Publisher could be the culprit
if WordArt is used on the goofy text, but maybe newer
versions of Office can do that too.

You get what you pay for, and Ghostscript is free   :sad:

Your process would work fine for me here.

I've been using it since a couple of days after if came out. While it's zippy,
I can get it to crash if I flip through image heavy pages too fast. Some of
it's features are pretty cool though. They still have a few bugs to work
out, but I sticking with it for now. The internet is still the internet, and I
don't really expect too much out of a web browser here. Definitely faster
than FF v2 though.

That's a cool trick C_T!

Unless it actually works as a server version, and is free, LFEX already does
that stuff.

Can the printer provide you with a Preflight Droplet
for Acrobat that you can use before submission?

We print to a HP 5000 and encounter all wide variety of
problems with it. I'd guess that some have to do with
HP Postscript emulation, which in my opinion sucks.
We have issues in particular with CID encoded fonts,
so you might want to take a look and see if any of your
font's are encoded that way in your document properties.

I'd probably go ahead and rip the job, then preview it to see
if I there were any issues. I don't really have much trust in the
HP 5000's ability to give solid results.

Quote from: beermonster on August 14, 2008, 03:04:03 AMfwiw i convert in native app and avoid postscript/distill and i too glory in the simplicity of my hq rip and ctp and i dont have a workflow smurchflow to worry about - just like doubting thomas

aint it great?!    :grin:

I use  Option #2 and it works great for me. I don't have any
fancy schmancy work flow to worry about on the offset side
though. I bask in the simplicity of our rip and CtP most days.

The majority of ours are either True Type or Open Type, but most of
our clients use either MS Office, or they use one of the Adobe CS
packages. We still get PS fonts mixed in, but there are less and
less of them for us.

If I remember correctly, Jalan worked on CD replication. If only someone could get
him to come back to the forum...  I have means to contact him for you Reproman.
Shoot me a PM if you'd like me to do that for you.

We do numbering on NCR from time to time this way. It's pretty
straight forward, although we use Xerox equipment. Our front
end is Print Shop Mail, or Quite Imposing. Same beast really.
I'd agree about it being pretty unsexy. The only time you get
noticed is if there's a mistake.

Have you tried deleting the Finder prefs yet?