Quote from: DigiCorn on April 21, 2020, 10:48:51 AM
The most plausible theory of John's death states that John was arrested in Ephesus and faced martyrdom when his enemies threw him in a huge basin of boiling oil. However, according to the tradition, John was miraculously delivered from death. The authorities then sentenced John to slave labor in the mines of Patmos. On this island in the southern part of the Aegean Sea, John had a vision of Jesus Christ and wrote the prophetic book of Revelation. The apostle John was later freed, possibly due to old age, and he returned to what is now Turkey. He died as an old man sometime after AD 98, the only apostle to die peacefully.

I believe he started fixing iPhones and iPads in Russia after that.

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I've never owned a "new" smart phone. When the iPhone 6 came out, I bought a used iPhone 4 from a kid working in the local Walmart electronics dept for $100 as he upgraded to the 6. When the GPS rollover happened I (needlessly as it turns out) bought a used iPhone 7 off of kijiji for $150. The old iPhone 4 still worked in all aspects after the rollover so I could have stuck with it, but the 7 is faster and you can successfully browse more websites with it. Never had an issue with either iPhone.

Quote from: Joe on March 10, 2020, 03:18:10 PM
Not anymore. My retirement age per Social Security is 66 years and 3 months. The younger you are the higher that number will go in the future.

They (Conservatives) tried to raise the age to 67 up here, but the Liberals backed it down to 65 again as soon as they were last elected.

Quote from: Joe on March 10, 2020, 02:45:47 PM

Quote from: born2print on March 10, 2020, 02:05:48 PM
Well Happy Birthday by the way!
...not to steal Matt's thunder

Doing anything more special than this to celebrate?

Working prepress.

Isn't 65 the official retirement age down in the USA, like it is up here?

There's usually a lock that has to be enabled to prevent the head, etc from moving during transit. I once moved a Stylus 10800 about 250 km in a van. Once locked down there is nothing that can really move and get damaged. I used tie downs to prevent the printer from moving around in the back as well.

Quote from: rickself on January 29, 2020, 01:29:14 PM
I have a client file that was built entirely in InDesign with placed graphics. I have a dieline from Illustrator and want to paste the design into the dieline ad do it in InDesign. I have copied the dieline from Illustrator and pasted into InDesign (probably the only time I've ever copied from one program to the other). I have tried copying or cutting everything from the page to paste into the dieline. I've seen this work before and I think it had something to do with how the Illustrator path was copied from Illustrator.

This should work, correct?
Help!

If it was me, I'd work the other way around. Export an eps or pdf from InDesign and open in Illy (I can hear the groans already). Then copy and paste the dieline into a top layer and make sure the stroke is set to overprint. Illustrator presents the most accurate way of placing the dieline. Then if necessary you can place the whole file into InDesign. We did this hundreds, maybe thousands, of times in the folding carton trade when we received artwork as an InDesign file with no dieline placed.

Congratulations. In a few years you will have to shine up the shotgun or get the knife collection out when boyfriends come to visit!

Quote from: G_Town on July 16, 2019, 02:39:17 PM
So this comes up about once a year when the pressroom prints long for some reason and they always bring up "why don't we distort our printing plates" to which I reply because that's an asinine idea.

Is anyone doing this on a regular basis?

Shouldn't require it for offset sheetfed printing ever. Only really required in flexo where the plates are raised "rubber"-type plates. Then you need a calculated distortion factor to make up for the raised plate face. Your pressman needs to take a pill.

Most RIPs these days will have a module to output a CIP3 file. With Heidelberg I believe there is an extra step to convert the raw ppf file into something the press interface can interpret. From what I remember our Esko Nexus would output a ppf file. We would then export it to a Heidelberg server running a Prinect CIP3 module, which in turn would produce a Heidelberg proprietary ink profile that could be used on press to set the keys. Things should have gotten more expedient since then but who knows? Your Fuji rep should be able to set up a CIP3 export from XMF though.

If it's anything like MSG, it may cause headaches...
 

Reader does have an Overprint Preview option. I used to keep an email handy with screenshots that I could send to the CSRs for distribution to their clients when questions would come up.

Quote from: philg1975 on January 07, 2019, 05:34:36 AMHi Tracy,

What your basically describing is what we basically do within Illustrator to create the files we use for the printable pdfs, what i am worried about with using Indesign is the file sizes that maybe huge if we have around 100 different 3up artworks to create, would take a long time to open and save etc.

With using Quite Impose, it just takes out having to use Indesign, we can just use the acrobat plug-in with the customer pdfs and create the artwork in a quicker time so no overtime for me but a happy boss lol.

It seems i have just about got my head around what i am trying to do now, figured out the background problem i had, i have worked out how to set my file up to match my layout that was created within Illustrator so things are looking better.

All i now need to do is figure out if i can copy a code from the artwork and get it placed within the space i am wanting a code tag to go so we can use this for organising the job when sending to the customer.

The customer service at Quite is very impressive compared to other software companies, their software engineer / support engineer goes out his way to help and make sure you understand how to do things with their software by sending videos etc to help.

Many thanks for all your help guys, fingers crossed I have found the solution to my problem.

Phil.

For carton imposition, we used a full die layout exported from our CAD dept, using Cimex to export an .ai file. We then created templates with marks and colour bar placements that could be re-mapped for correct colour usage. Low res placers we're positioned in each position. Took some time to set up each die template, but as we did more and more they could be fully set up in 15 min or less. For an actual production file, there were two options:
1. Re-link the low-res placers with low-res files exported from Nexus, re-map colour bars and RIP to 1 bits for proofs or plates.
Or
2. Re-link low res placers with press-ready PDFs, re-map colour bars and export a press-ready layout PDF from Illy that could be dropped into Nexus for 1 bit tiff output.

If you are familiar with Illy, as most carton files use it, Illy templares are easy to create and use, especially if you are forced to use older RIPs like Nexus.

Quote from: G_Town on January 08, 2019, 12:07:01 PMWe are a sheetfed folding carton plant, we have an ink tech in and is question our rotation. What is everyone using?

We are running CMYK but he is saying 95% of plants run KCMY.

Thanks

KCMY at the sheetfed folding carton hellhole that I used to work at. If metallics and/or spot colours were involved, they would always go down first with metallics always going down first i.e.: MET>SPOT>KCMY.

Quote from: DigiCorn on December 27, 2018, 03:04:29 PMLooks like I picked the wrong holiday to quit drinking.

I hope you're joking....