We've used CGS paper rolls with our Epsons for years. It's a good product.

Quote from: born2print on August 06, 2021, 10:27:42 AM
:angry:
The only problems we ever have any more are our own corporate IT shooting us in the foot! 
Buy yay, we're secure

How true is that....so secure it's hard to do your job anymore. 

Joe, it was system rules. The screen shot was from a PC where they were working. Just found out the problem was due to a program that corporate had installed on the macs called z-scaler, an internet security program. If we turn if off, restart the Mac and keep it off, everything works again in workshop.  Everything else in Workshop was working but that, oddly enough. thanks for the thoughts and feedback.   John

On Prinergy 8.2.1.  Our new Prinergy admin just noticed that using his Mac version of Workshop that the Process > Enabled Rules view is grayed out but it's not on his PC. Both Workshops logged in as himself. I know for certain that this feature used to work equally well for Macs and PC's.

Is there any difference between the Macs and PC's and how the interface might not display this on a Mac that you can think of. Attached is how it properly functions on a PC. On a Mac, it's greyed out.

-John

Apparently, this is a known Prinergy bug they are looking into fixing in a later Prinergy 9.x upgrade.

I haven't asked Dell/EMC if they have a way of bypassing the limitation of only using the FQDN to communicate with their load balancing software. Or if they would allow us to stay at our current, fully functional version and still support it. But I doubt they would as they have end-of-lifed it. I thought I would try the forums, first.

I did get this response on the GUA forum so I'll see if I get any more info from the Kodak Workflow guy referrenced below. I can paste the FQDN path into the Prinergy process templates but it doesn't recognize it correctly. If I map a drive to it on the Prinergy primary and paste that mapped path into the process template, it works. So, that would be a workaround for that. But, on the SmartHotfolders, it doesn't let you type or paste anything. Only browse to the truncated path. I we use the SmartHotfolders with RBA for a lot of jobs. Here is that 1st response from the GUA forum:

Today, 03:50 PM
That looks like a bug to me.

I have some FQDN's configured as Volumes in Prinergy Administrator (as opposed to HostName or IP Address) too.
I get a few more characters than you because my hostname is shorter - still just 15 characters though.

In the Smart Hot Folder Location selection dialog box, It appears the number of characters for the Share Name is limited to 15.
Once you select that (button at the bottom of the Screen) you get a partial UNC path. That's the path that's being passed back and forth between Workshop and the Server.


If you Packet Capture Prinergy's request to list the Volumes. You can see that Prinergy is passing the Incorrect & truncated value back to Workshop
Client -> GIOP REQUEST op=GetVolumes
Server -> GIOP REPLY No Exception
The Stub Data of the Reply Packet contains the bad UNC Path.

Then Workshop asks for the SubFolders of the Invalid UNC Path
Client -> GIOP REQUEST op=GetDirectoryInfo_P302
Server -> GIOP REPLY No Exception
The server returns no subFolders, because the UNC path does not exist.

Maybe michael.bialko can check to see if there is a PR for this?

We use a Dell/EMC Isilon cluster running as a Prinergy job server and Dell/EMC is making us update to OneFS 8.2 to continue support. However, this "upgrade" has a limitation regarding the SmartConnect load balancing function where any queries to it will fail unless you use the FQDN. In the past, you could use an IP or the DNS short name. All our Prinergy job volumes/home use the DNS shortname. Prinergy allows me to create new Job volumes with the FQDN. But, there are sections in different Process Templates and in the SmartHotfolder section where you need to "browse to" the volume/path you want to use for a Device but Prinergy has truncated the volume names that use the FQDN as they are quite a bit longer than the DNS short name volumes.


For example. In the below SmartHotfolder config, the current path using the DNS short name works fine, but if try to browse to where the SmartHotfolder would be using the FQDN volume in the volumes list, it's trucated after the first "dot". Kodak says I could put a feature request change in but it would go in the pile with a bunch of other requests. I'm thinking about not using the Isilon load balancing and manually balancing the Prinergy Primary to one node and the secondaries to the remaining 2 nodes and seeing how that goes. 

That really good.... 

I've never used it but if you choose Tools >Edit PDF > Link > Add or Edit
The pointer becomes a cross hair, and any existing links in the document, including invisible links, are temporarily visible. 

I just did a simple test that most certainly worked. The before is me using the Acrobat separation viewer and unchecking the black separation before running the action list. The after is after running the action list...the black is knocking out and not overprinting. Much appreciated!

Thanks so much, ABC.....  We'll give it a go.

This would be using Pitstop server and Switch automated to do preflight and putting the correct electronic trim box for impostion (done with Impostrip).

Quote from: abc on March 27, 2021, 01:13:11 PM
Can be easily done. Just need to select what you want and then change it to knockout.
I'm thinking we are seeing RGB black, Process black, grayscale black and possibly a spot black. Not positive what is predominate. If you had an action list that has the basic logic, if it misses anything we would know how to tweak it. Thank you!

But be aware black can be defined 4 ways in PDF.

Is it only Solid K you need to knockout?
Will upload an Action List for you.

Quote from: Tracy on March 26, 2021, 11:30:35 AM
There is an action under global changes "Change Overprint"

OK. I do see that. It will allow you to overprint black or knockout white. What most people want when printing with ink. But I don't see it letting you tell it to knockout all black and overprinting colors like you can with Prinergy. See attached. With toner printers, you get muddied colors when you overprint black and some colors. I'm thinking there isn't a similar function in Pitstop.

We profile our color sheetfed press about once a year.  Our Epson 9000 proofer uses CGS/Oris Color tuner and a built-in spectro to check each proof to be sure the proofer hasn't drifted. As long as the press can match the proof with the usual ink densities, we can tell that the press hasn't drifted that much, either. Everything is GraCol...I think we use the 2013 version...not positive.

What I'm looking for is a Pitstop action list type method to have 100%K knockout rather than overprint for a toner i300 press.  I can do it with a Prinergy refiner.
Thanks.