I've been busy with moving home these days and so I've somehow overslept to register for the June Webinar... 

Could anybody give me a download link for it?

Thanks in advance!

I guess, most of the Windows users here have noticed it already, since there is a notification icon popping up in the task bar, but just in case, you didn't notice: If you register now, you can upgrade your existing Win 7/8 system to Win 10 as soon as it is available. And that for free.

Link

Hey everybody!

Had a client today, asking me to print 150 sheet A6 size with a serial number one it - 001 to 150. So I took his original PDF, placed it into Indy, put a page number on top of it and made a new PDF from it. New PDF looks fine, but as soon as I did the imposition for 4-up print, the inner frame moved its position. The outer frame and the page number all remain at the same position.

I've tried to delete all the other stuff around, no result. Tried to refry the PDF, no result. Tried to place with and without transparent background and played with different export options, still no change. Opened in Illy, tried to delete the other stuff around, resize the page to proper size, place it again into Indy, export a new PDF, still the same result.

Does anybody have an idea what's going on with this file? I'd be happy about any advice! Using CS6 and Quite Imposing 1.6 with Acrobat 8.

I've shortened the file "Exported PDF" to 20 pages because of size limit for attached files, by the way. 

Thanks in advance!

Don't know if all the Adobe CC users on OSX here know this one already: The next major update of the CC requires OSX 10.9 or higher.

https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/an-update-creative-cloud-and-support-for-mac-os-x/

A few days ago, I had an issue with black text and yellow stroke. The Text was 60pt., 100K and set to overprint and the stroke was 100Y, lying halfly outside the text and halfly under the text. In the overprint preview in Acrobat, it looked like the text color would be heavily influenced by the underlying yellow stroke (see attached image). So I've decided to set the text to knock out again.

Well, in the aftermath I've kept thinking. The result was good, but how would it have looked if I've really kept it on overprint? Can anyone of you share some experience with me about this kind of case? Would the black text really be influenced that heavily? How about other examples, like a big 100K rectangle on top of a red/white chessboard pattern, for example? Pitstop has an option to not overprint text bigger than how many points, does anybody use this option? If yes, which font size do you use?

Probably a simple question this time. I have this PDF made from MS Word here and all black text shows up as "Gray"-colorspace in both the separations preview as well as the Pitstop Inspector. In the separations preview in Acrobat it shows up as 100% K, in Pitstop as 0% "Gray Color".

If I use Pitstop to convert it to CMYK it becomes 78/68/58/94, but isn't gray just the black channel of CMYK...? Well, now here is my question: Is it still necessary to remap this 0% gray to CMYK (100% K) in that case?

Looking forward to your answers, maybe somebody can bring light to my dark (I know I have a lack of knowledge...) 

Good morning everybody!

I'm gonna start to find a new job soon, have been looking at some job offers already and even found some nice offers, but seems like working in prepress for an offset print shop mostly means shift work. Some shops only have early and late shifts like 6:00 am-2:00 pm/2:00 pm-10:00 pm, others add a night shift like 7:30 pm-3:30 am. Well, I'd not be overjoyed to work shifts, but could probably somehow accept it (except for night shift, since Taiwan is a horribly noisy place during daytime).

Who else here needs to work shifts? I'd like to know if shift work in prepress is common or rather seldom...  
Thanks in advance guys, have a great day! 

Hey guys! 

I guess each of you had to face this problem before: Customer comes in with a PDF exported as reader spreads (facing pages exported as one page) and thinks that setting up a PDF like this makes it  perfectly usable for saddle stitching or perfect binding.

In that case I usually use drag and drop to copy and paste each page (using CTRL+Left mouse button) just right behind each page, so I have each page twice in groups of two in the document. Then I use Acrobat's cropping function and cut away the right side of the even pages to keep the left side remaining, and cut the left side of the odd pages, to keep the right side alive. Then I'll impose or print as required. This works well for smaller PDF with let's say 32 pages, but as I know our customers, one day a 400+pages readers spread PDF will come in.

Does any of you know a faster or more practical way to separate spreads? Telling the client that he's a retard and that's why he needs to go back to his office and make a new PDF with single pages would be the fastest and most practical way, but unfortunately this time it's not an option. I'm using Acrobat 8 and Quite Imposing 1.6, by the way.

Hello everybody!

Since our digital print shop is pretty small, my duties during working time aside from prepress are to feed the machines with paper and toner as well as to do the finishing of the product, like binding or cutting. Actually I think it's not a bad thing, because like this one doesn't need to sit the entire day in front of a computer screen and damage his eyes.

But I'm curious if anyone here on the board is in the same situation and needs to do things aside from prepress, like cutting or folding the paper or operate the printing presses or other bindery equipment, during working time.

 

Hey guys!

I just ran into an issue with a business card. Yesterday a client came to our shop (we do digital printing) and ordered business cards. We have printed one box directly on our KM C7000 for him to take it right away since he was afraid he'll run out of business cards during the weekend and those cards came out just nice. He then ordered another five boxes for later next week, which we have outsourced to offset printing (one of those online printers that prints every file directly and unseen).

Now they just delivered the cards and I realized that the background picture on the back of the card, which is set up as a 5%-Pantone 289C, has not been printing. The original supplied PDF contains plenty of printer marks but no bleed and our printer would never accept a file like this, so I have placed it into InDesign and exported it as a PDF-X1. The file contains two spot colors, and one of those colors is causing this issue now. The 100%-areas of this color have been printed with no problem. I decided to leave the spot colors untouched and let them handle the color conversion since they are not able to print spot colors - all they know is CMYK.

The company said they'll print new business cards for us, so actually it's not a problem, but I'd like to know what might have caused this issue. Is my way wrong? Anything I should do better? I have pretty less experience with offset printing but the files I send them so far have all been printed with no issues.  But maybe you guys can give me some advice what to do better in the future. Here are my files:

Client supplied file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4vV6_zsh9xXbUJoMDBTcERjSms/edit?usp=sharing
My file which went to the printer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4vV6_zsh9xXbmMxN1Z1Mk80dDQ/edit?usp=sharing

Best regards and thanks to all of you in advance,

Christian