Quote from: t-pat on November 27, 2012, 05:42:30 PMnot sure if you've looked but there are some certificate borders built into illy, they're under brushes/borders. Nothing as ugly as the quack one though.

If you want the actual quark border I could be persuaded to save one out as an eps.

*using powers of persuasion*

Pretty please??  :cry:

Cheers, John

Hey everyone,

I am looking for an Illustrator .EPS version of a "fancy certificate" frame -- preferably as close to the one that Quark Xpress used to generate as possible!

It's for (you guessed it) a gift certificate that will fit in a #10 envelope, so it doesn't need to be hugely tall or anything.

Any and all help would be vastly appreciated!   :embarrassed:

Thanks in advance,
John

For DCurry --

This font preview just arrived in my emailbox today, thought it might be a close match to what you were looking for, since it's designed to emulate a cash register receipt type of look:

http://www.fonts.com/font/dmtr-org/arame?utm_source=NBS-Nov-2012&utm_medium=image&utm_content=NBS-Nov-2012arame&utm_campaign=Newsletter#product_top

Cheers, John the Fontaholic

Quote from: Chuckls on November 14, 2012, 01:10:20 PMI need help with this font. The way the numbers are baseline shifted is throwing me off.
Thanks in advance.

Looks like good ol' Georgia to me...  :cheesy:

Cheers, John the Fontaholic

Quote from: Diddler on November 08, 2012, 06:27:48 PMWhen I had to do this in the old days before XMF I would turn off the punch on the first burn.

We manually punch our plates after they've gone through the processor rinse, so no worries there for me...  :cool:

Cheers, John

Quote from: Joe on November 08, 2012, 02:19:47 PMWhat is your CTP imaging? The image or everything but the image? If it is the former all you have to do is have two separate plate files with the images in the proper position so they go where you want them on the plate. If the latter, by 100% I mean you need to create a box that is 100% in all colors to be imaged. This box will protect that portion of the plate that the other file images...and vice versa.

The CTP is imaging the image to be printed; the rest of the plate coating gets rinsed off by the processor when it goes through the chemical bath.

So I need to catch the imaged plate before it goes into the processor, and put it through the imager a second plate, imaging the lower lpi images that will print in the same color...

Cheers, John

Quote from: Joe on November 08, 2012, 11:14:22 AMYeah you can do it easily if you are using the plates that image only the image, In that case you can just expose two different images to one plate. If you are using plates that image everything but the image you would need to add a 100% box on the file used to image the first part of the plate so it protects the area for the second image from exposure. On the second file you will need to add a 100% box to protect the area of the plate that was imaged first. This is the poor mans approach.

Of course!  This is basically the CTP equivalent of what our former plate-burning dude used to do...! 

By 100%, I assume in this case you'd mean 100% black (since that's the color these vastly different linescreens are being printed in), so that the platemaker can burn/etch the 65lpi "COPY" linescreen into the areas left unimaged by the first pass of the platemaker?

And obviously I'd have to catch the plate BEFORE it goes into the CTP processor, and washes all the unimaged stuff away, yes? 

Also -- how can I make sure that when the plate goes through a second time for imaging, that it will image the "COPY" linescreens in exactly the spot where I need them to go?  Or do I just trust that when the plate gets "caught and pinched", that it'll be in the same position it was in when the first pass when through?? 

Cheers, John

Hey everyone,

Newbie here with a question --

Is it possible to print different linescreens (i.e., 150 lpi, 120 lpi AND 65 lpi) on the same one CTP plate?

Here's why I'm asking...

A few years ago, when our shop still used an imagesetter to output film, we created a "copy-proof" form for one of our customers by using a variety of linescreens printed at various angles.  (The background was a 3% screen of black imaged at 150 lpi at the usual angle; the word "COPY" -- which would show up if the form was photocopied or faxed -- was a different screen of black imaged at 65 lpi at a 75º angle; and the customer's screened logo was a 20% PMS blue color imaged at 120 lpi at a 75º angle.)

The filmstripper guy (who retired a couple years ago) was able to overburn the two black screens onto the same plate and so we were able to run this job with two press plates.  But now that the imagesetter has been replaced with a CTP processor, I'm wondering if there's going to be any way to do this job the way I've described, or is the Komori pressman going to have to run two separate black plates for each of the different linescreens??  :sad:

I'd greatly appreciate any advice you good folks could offer!   :grin:

Cheers, John

Thanks for the heads-up!

Now all I have to do is persuade the boss that this is a good idea even though our business is at an all-time low... 

Cheers, John