I hate fiddling around with test prints like that. I'm so used to getting a good print the first time with our digital press at work. It's a real drag when I try to print on my home printer and have to do test prints to get okay results.

It's been forever since I've posted. 

I'm at a print shop now instead of a newspaper by the way.

Happy New Year to you too Tracy.

Just have them send it in Adobe.  :wink:

 

Quote from: DigiCorn on February 28, 2013, 04:38:53 PMIn all honesty, I think this customer works in Pagemaker. I only ever see pdfs and NEVER get native files.

 

Quote from: gnubler on March 01, 2013, 11:48:39 PM

Quote from: david on March 01, 2013, 12:45:16 PMI'm wearing one now...

In Texas? I smell a rat!

Sorry about that.  :embarrassed:

Another font I could do without ...

 

Someone on a non prepress/graphic design related forum pointed this out ...



Update on the Standard Model Higgs searches in ATLAS and CMS

E=MC²  :cheesy:

Maybe everyone knows about this trick already but here goes anyway.

Have you ever gotten a job that was designed in Photoshop that was full of 4 color blacks that you wanted to be on the black plate only? Here's a trick that works like a charm.

Step 1: Convert to profile ...


Step 2: Click Advanced button ...


Step 3: Pick Custom CMYK ...


Step 4: Pick Maximum for Black Generation setting ...


Step 5: Click OK x2. :tongue:

Now everything that's supposed to be black should be on the black plate only. :smiley:

Be sure to embed the profile when you save. You will also need to be sure to use the embedded profile in stead of your working CMYK when you open the file again in Photoshop otherwise the blacks will be on all 4 plates again.

Thanks for all the offers for help folks.  :grin:

I got so busy that I forgot to check back with you later in the day.  :embarrassed:

The live trace of the inkjet is going to work OK, especially since the logo is going to be much smaller than what I scanned from in the final ad.

I ended up scanning the inkjet and doing a live trace in Illy just so we could get to work on the ad. I e-mailed you the file delooch. It would be good to have a properly (?) converted version of the .SIG on file.

 

Quote from: Joe on March 01, 2012, 05:57:07 PMYou can try this site and see if it will convert it to PDF.

http://www.zamzar.com/

I tried that yesterday. No dice.

Oh well, I do have an inkjet printout that I could scan if I have to. 

Can anyone open a .SIG file? Webpages that I looked up said that it was created by Print Shop ...

http://www.broderbund.com/c-31-the-print-shop.aspx

Either that or it's an e-mail sig.  :undecided:

Quote from: delooch on February 01, 2012, 02:07:39 PMwhats worse than comic sans? PIXELATED comic sans!

http://okfoc.us/pixelcomicsans/

Wow! The Holy Grail of fonts!