XMF Install & Training

[impodave]

Interesting.  I'm running all 150 here for now.  But My Job Templates are setup/named differently.  For instance, I have Komori_CMYK,  Komori_ K+Spots,  Komori_Spots.  Same for the other machines except for the QM46, which never runs process.

[Tracy]

do you see a way to change them?
mine's all greyed out

[Diddler]

do you see a way to change them?
mine's all greyed out

You can change them by browsing through your screen sets.

[Tracy]

aha! I think that is how they are created, I shall not touch it for now :laugh:
got too many other things going.

[Tracy]

You guys probably already knew this, but I learned yesterday that you can use 2 different
impo patterns in the same layout!
This is a a job that ends up with a lip, so half the pgs are 8x11 and the rest are 8.5x11
we cut these down before folding on our duplo
weird arrangement is for the tight sheet and bleeds on the tail end only
and the front of the booklet is english and the back a different language

[frailer]

Yeah, you can Option/Click on a page, change size...  which is how you did it, right? ::cool:  There's some pretty flexible options buried in there.

[Diddler]

Another good one to learn is "Versioning". We do a lot of brochures that have just a black plate change for instance, so instead of having multiple impo's for jobs you can have one set of CMY and multiple versions/layers of just K all embedded in one file. Just like you would turn on and off layers in Photoshop.

[Tracy]

we have a job during christmas that has black changes, thanks!

Today I had a proof with funky fat type, looks like the old rasterized type problem, but it wasn't
 it was not in view plates, or the output pdf I made or the plate I made to check it.
this is something that should never happen, I am going to call fuji but any ideas?

[frailer]

we have a job during christmas that has black changes, thanks!

Today I had a proof with funky fat type, looks like the old rasterized type problem, but it wasn't
 it was not in view plates, or the output pdf I made or the plate I made to check it.
this is something that should never happen, I am going to call fuji but any ideas?

Screenshot(s)? Upload a page for testing, if not too big?  :undecided:

[Joe]

we have a job during christmas that has black changes, thanks!

Today I had a proof with funky fat type, looks like the old rasterized type problem, but it wasn't
 it was not in view plates, or the output pdf I made or the plate I made to check it.
this is something that should never happen, I am going to call fuji but any ideas?

What kind of proof file is created? Anything other than a PDF has to be flattened and my guess is the type rasterizes where it touches transparency during the flattening process.

[frailer]

oops, missed the crucial thing... proof-only. You got some kinda ROOM setup? Black Magic that we use is a re-rez of the rendered XMF file @ 720DPI, but would show it as per View Plates.   :undecided:

[Tracy]

oops sorry, it was the hard proof that was fattened, plated fine and pdf proof was fine.

come to find out, I thought it was an indy pdf, it was a publisher file put into indy and pdf'd :laugh:

so Im gonna wait before I call it in I think

[frailer]

oops sorry, it was the hard proof that was fattened, plated fine and pdf proof was fine.

come to find out, I thought it was an indy pdf, it was a publisher file put into indy and pdf'd :laugh:

so Im gonna wait before I call it in I think

Yeah, my 1st step when opening an unknown-sourced PDF... Cmd+D--> Creator..   . 'Put that thing down, kid... you dunno where it's been...'  :laugh:   .. but then I guess that's disguised after reExport.   :undecided:

[Tracy]

ok I found out what the problem was with the proof:
There were clouds behind my text and the text was trapping badly to the clouds.

It was the trapping of the proof, it is a known problem, they have only had a few of these so they haven't fixed it yet.
They are going to contact me again, so the solution is to turn off trapping of the proof, which is not a good solution.
I'll update you as i learn more :laugh:

[Tracy]

I found out that when you have 2 different sheet sizes you need to add another workflow see screen shot
if someone knows a different way let me know!