Publisher PDF files are generated by Acrobat we send them and install our own settings , then run through PitStop Server and into 4 Apogee RIPS - pretty smooth.
Until they forget to print a pdf and try to export one from Publisher.....

Quote from: Tracy on May 09, 2017, 11:02:16 AMI would like a 3-4 day work week, but too far for me.

Not quite the same weather either....

Quote from: Farabomb on May 10, 2017, 06:47:33 AMFailed tests?

Drug testing in a printshop is a fool's errand.

Well, unless you're testing to see how good they are...

Problem is to bring them in, they have to pass the test. Even telling them they will be tested doesn't help.

Quote from: david on May 09, 2017, 02:58:08 PMI would wonder why they are replacing the entire work crew, did something go wrong so everybody quit?

Entire crew - - if we are pulling 10,000 plates a week and you think this is the entire crew then I have a bridge for you to buy, barely used.
We have 13 Diddie webs running 23 1/2 hours a day for 3 days a week and 11 hours on the forth day, need lots of people and have been going through temps left and right, just trying a different approach to try and fill vacancies.
And between promotions, retirements and failed tests we have this many openings.

10,000 plates a week but 17x22 cut off - lots of 4/4 runs - more like a quick print newspaper solution on 50# offset
And yes, 3 or 4 day weekends and 40 hours every week is awesome!
Chicago traffic - not so much

Day Shift pressman -
Diddie 860 2c/2c TU-TH 6 AM - 4 PM & TH 7 AM - 5 PM
Diddie 860 2c/2c TU-TH 7 AM - 8 PM

Day Shift  floater pressman
Diddie 860 4c/4c - TU-FR 7:00AM - 5:00PM

Night Shift  floater pressman
Diddie 860 4c/4c - TU-TH 4:00PM - 5:30AM

Day Shift  Press helpers (3)
TU-TH 7:00AM - 8:00PM

Night Shift  Press helper
TU-TH 4:00PM - 5:30AM

Day Shift Bindery Operators
Stahl Folder Operator TU-FR 7:00AM - 5:00PM
Fenimore Sidewinder Operator TU-TH 7 AM - 8 PM

Bindery Supervisor
Folders, stitchers, Sabre cutter, Fed Ex shipping, 2 shifts

Pre press/Bulletin Production Supervisor
The job entails leading a team of 5 pre-flight specialists (communicate problems with files to customers- files are usually pdf files from Publisher, to process customer files, add the correct ad page and process into the plate room, Saturday tracking of Fed Ex shipments) and the plate room operations – 3 operators -  (assist in workflow enhancements of our Agfa Apogee workflow, plate 10,000 plates per week)

Please contact me with any questions
Joe Duffy
duffyj11498@gmail.com
708-663-0801

Thanks

Get the same thing here periodically and to fix I:  change the offending drum, pull the other three and do a complete wipe clean, check the Waste Toner line to be sure it is operating and finally it usually goes away...if still there it could also be the Transfer Belt is worn and pushing the envelope up onto the Magenta Drum. If consumables listing on Drum is lower than 37% and Transfer Belt is below 50% betting this fixes it.
So basically I just throw parts at it to make it happy again

Ours cracked until I went out and watched the guy running the score machine - he was scoring the wrong side of the sheet. 
Said that was how he always did it.  Scored other side of sheet and far fewer problems with cracks on all of our GS sheets.

Quote from: DigiCorn on February 20, 2013, 09:07:11 AMWe score everything.

+1 - everything seems to crack otherwise.

Matt Thomas
MT Precision Graphics
314-283-6855
Out of the St Louis area but very good and very reasonable - but a 1 man show.

Quote from: Skryber on February 06, 2013, 04:07:23 PMToo drunk too remember it all, hungover for the wedding......

Sounds like my entire first marriage, wonder why it didn't work?

I got tired of all that BS for repeat cards and just set up a INDD template with the fields and had the reps supply a .XLS file  - that I sent them a template on - and they type in all of the info they want and do a Merge.
Takes a couple of minutes to save the XLS as a CSV and then run through Merge and identify the fields - cards are to the printer in 6 minutes from the time they come in to me.

Still they come back and ask how this card has the wrong info on it

Quote from: Earendil on January 24, 2013, 02:00:16 PMFine, sharp lines are usually hardware/software glitch. Dirty optics will typically result in soft anomalies or problems with diodes from the machine having to run at higher power to burn through the crud.

Would more likely be a cable with a broken wire, or bad card, or bad pci slot.
I know he just changed cards but a little static on that card and ....

Quote from: Grimace on January 08, 2013, 04:25:01 PM^ holy crapola! That's some crazy RAM for dem days!

LOTS of time running photoshop - LOTS of time....

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Quote from: Sabrina The Turd Polisher on January 08, 2013, 09:55:55 AMwow, this thread is a trip down memory lane.

My First Job® had networking...which was all fancy back in 1990. I remember they looked like phone jacks. What was that? I remember the term "phone net".
Anyways, they had a 9600 baud modem which was blazing fast for the time. They even had a customer whose files went straight to the imagesetter (linotronic).
It was while working there I read about this amazing new storage device that could hold the data hundreds of floppies: A CD storage device.   
So futuristic!

And I thought I was in the future when I got a 40mHZ processor upgrade to my Quadra 950 with - hold on to your hats - 256MB of RAM.

We're talking Hard Drive at 256MB correct?
If I had more than 24mb of Ram with my 6100 I would have been stoked! And that had a 256 mb HD

No - I had $26,000 in RAM on my machine - do not remember the hard drive size but 256 or 500 sound right.
All of our 2ci's had 32mb of RAM and when we went to 8100's, all had 128.
We spent lots of money back then to be cutting edge.  Glad I left, now they don't even have a single person in my old department.