Will one hit of white be enough on say black card? Can you lay down more than 100% density of white in a single pass? Is it safe or possible to feed the white print back through a second time for another hit? If it is OK to do so, how tight will the registration be?

Is the white a consumable cost or a click charge model? I'm guessing a consumable, even if the CMYK are click based.

How will you accurately estimate/cost if this is a consumable model?

I'm guessing that you will need to have spot colours setup in your files for the 5th station. Does the RIP/DFE handle the raster and vector spot colours the same (i.e. no visible difference to the output)? Or does it only support spot colour vector/text data?

Hi Slappy,

The textmechanic website has helped me more than once before. Although this is an old topic, I thought that it was worthwhile adding another option.

This is also possible via a regular expression find/replace (like GREP in InDesign), which only needs a single command.

Find:
(.+)(\n)

Replace:
'$1'

Note, there is a word space at the end of the replace text, which I have attempted to show with the underline.

Attached is a screenshot from the regex101 website (one of many regular expression sites out there).

Using the script supplied by ZOX, I just created an Automator workflow/service so that I could right click in the Finder to create the new folder/subfolder structure.

I have attached a zip of the .workflow file and screenshot if this helps.

I voted yes, as our http://accuramis.com can show this on the job ticket. Unlike weight, it is an optional field on the substrate setup, but if it is entered it can be reported. It is not on the default job sheet, however, it can be added by the end-user using standard tools provided with the system for no extra charge.

I agree with Joe, the page box info may be stripped from the file if this is a variable data application. Files simply uploaded to a portal should be OK. You can make an Acrobat Pro action/droplet or use PitStop Pro or Server to set the page boxes. It will depend on how consistent the input data is on how automated this is. PitStop can detect trim marks and set trimbox and bleedbox info from these marks.

In Acrobat, use File > Properties on a Canva PDF, is there any metadata that identifies the Application or PDF Producer on the Description tab (possibly Author or Creator)? You could possibly use this for eyeball or automated preflight "heads up".

I hate to nitpick, however, their website does not fill me with confidence:

https://support.canva.com/publish/printing/download-designs-print/

They mention DPI, not PPI. They mention RGB colour profile, not colour mode. Then there is the optional margins, crops and bleed:

https://support.canva.com/publish/printing/crop-marks-and-bleed/
https://support.canva.com/publish/printing/show-margins-bleed/

Damn, I thought that this discussion was about a magic bullet to make DC look like X.

Does your company use a MIS/ERP system? Many MIS vendors have optional integrated stock/inventory management systems for both raw materials and finished items.

From a proofing perspective, there are of course certain things to consider, such as the gamut of the inkset that an inkjet offers when paired with a particular paper. Usually the gamut of a given inkjet is larger than offset CMYK, but may or may not be able to cover specific spot colours. That being said, it usually comes down to the RIP driving the printer, as that will be colour managing and "dumbing down" the vivid colours for offset CMYK press simulation (except for spots). So the printer has to be fit for purpose and also be capable of being driven by your RIP software and inline or offline spectros etc. If you are not using a RIP and relying on the manufacturer printer driver and colour managing upstream then you have different expectations than me.

Try:

Google Sheets > Add Ons > AbleBits: Merge Values

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZnCyfeE48

Did you see the image attached to my previous reply? This shows how to configure the Automator Workflow for your script. Yes, this is not intuitive and one may have to spend hours researching the internet to make such things work.

The link to my blogpost is just a hint at what else is possible in Automator when using non GUI based methods, whether they be command line code, scripts etc.

In the case of Folder Actions, I believe that Automator is just a more accessible front end to the existing framework that was traditionally used by AppleScript, however I could be wrong. Despite AppleScript having an "easy to write syntax" it is still beyond many users. I agree that Automator could do with more work, it is not always obvious how to correctly order or structure flows.

Quote from: motormount on January 30, 2019, 10:48:42 AMI'd really appreciate if anyone could tell me how should i do this, make a ''hot folder'' with the script above, to which when i throw a file inside, a new folder is created named after the file and then the file is moved inside the new folder.

Hi motormount, a "simple" change to your code was all it took:

for file in "$@"; do
if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then
mkdir "${file%.*}"
mv "$file" "${file%.*}"
fi
done
Then setup the Automator Workflow like the attached image.

I had already done all of the hard work when learning how to incorporate ExifTool command line code into the Finder, so I'm glad that was all it took for your code!

http://prepression.blogspot.com/2016/12/automator-diy-exiftool-gui-services.html

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Rather than having a transparent image placed over the vector spot background, you could include all or part of the spot background in Photoshop as a spot colour channel. You of course then need the RIP to process the vector spot and raster spot the same, otherwise you will see an edge and may need to extend the spot background in Photoshop so that it can fully replace the vector spot background object. Yes, likely swapping one problem for another, but worth a try for giggles!

Quote from: Kermy812 on January 11, 2019, 01:28:12 PMSo a have a few hundred pdfs with a code at the bottom right, but I need to rename the pdf by that code. Is that possible? - any easy tools to do that with? So in my attachment, my pdf would need to be renamed 37980-7X7-6427.pdf
The pdf normally has other text & logos in it, but I have removed customer info, just for uploading here

It's great that you have a tagged PDF, so you can easily convert the tags to bookmarks, then split the file based on the bookmarks to individual files using the bookmark name. All of this is detailed in the blogpost linked below.

The sample file only has a single page, so in order to test how much of a PITA this would be using standard Acrobat Pro tools a multi page file would be needed, 10 pages would be enough to gauge this process as it would include some manual steps.

http://prepression.blogspot.com/2015/07/Splitting-PDF-Files-to-Variable-File-Names.html

From (poor) memory... Variable sets contain one or more variables that can be referenced in an action list. There can be more than one variable set, however only one variable set can be applied/active at a time.


EDIT: Here it is from the source –

http://www.enfocus.com/manuals/QuickStartGuide/PP/18/enUS/en-us/common/ppr/concept/co_variableset.html
http://www.enfocus.com/manuals/ReferenceGuide/PP/18/enUS/en-us/common/ppr/reference/r_using_variable_sets.html

http://www.enfocus.com/manuals/ReferenceGuide/PP/18/enUS/en-us/common/ppr/concept/co_smp_intro.html
http://www.enfocus.com/manuals/ReferenceGuide/PP/18/enUS/en-us/common/ppr/task/ta_smp_setup.html