Search results

The reason less light inks are used is that you will run into over inking. Profiling without a spectro? You're cooked. You need that at the very least just to calibrate. You can't build a profile with your ink gamut missing chunks (lc lm) without linearizing with a measurement device. Your...

We have a standalone rip/file server that acts as a separate entity from our network. SSD main drive and 2 huge hard disk drives. We have it shared to our macs so if our network goes down we can limp along. The key for us is keeping our design and print layouts separate from...

EPS files? Who said anything about eps files??? I have built a managed system. How can color be the same from a compressed file format to an uncompressed? It won't. Especially in a vector created element with transparency that is rasterized and compressed to hell and back. I never said we did...

The best way is to use your layers palette in Illustrator. That way you can be sure not to jack up your stacking order...or lose all of the individual attributes on an object level basis. (such as opacity/blending mode/ etc.) Releasing them all at once is like 52 pick-up!!! Don't do it...

My art layouts need to match up with our shop drawings...so it's a needed tool. We create many curved frames for pillowcase covers. Rhino allows me to develop surfaces and locate obstruction zones for other booth elements. We also have to work at scale considering our grand format workflow. Also...

I loved Illustrator until I saw the power of cad. I still like them both…but for accuracy, it's cad. Check out some of the stuff you can do with Grasshopper. It's a free plug-in for Rhino, and it is POWERFUL! Parametrics is where it is at!!!

"Print-ready" hahahaha! You've got jokes! The problem the OP is having is solvable but it's done in building the right food for your specific rip. The problem with Photoshop is brand colors. I do work for quite a few largish companies in Seattle, here. Their color is the same EVERY time. Even...

"If you don't give a shit...just flatten and rasterize!" I love seeing that one on here. Take some damn pride in being a printer...sometimes things are difficult. There are many limitations of design software that RIPS simply won't render well. Sounds like a digital workflow issue to me...

If you need that type of efficiency in drawing you might as well get some flavor of cad. (I use Rhino) I can fly with the command prompt...for most things you just start typing and commands come up. I don't think EVEN the highly advanced Corel draw can hang, efficiency wise. I don't remember...

And Gino...LOVING the term Crummy Dummies! We have different terms here that are a little off color, but I'm stealing yours!!! LMAO!!!

Ditto here. It's taken me twenty years to know I still don't know it all!

What gave me the drive was getting stuck hand collating 30 boxes of blank 5-bank tabs...and hand collating dozens of color copy manuals because my printer only made multiple copies of one page at a time! Cross training and learning all aspects of a thing are huge in a career's education. If you...

I was too green to do any of what you are talking about, and I know you are ABSOLUTELY right. I was lucky enough to get in to printing and imaging when photos was still the best quality you could get. The photo tech was a cool enough guy to let me help him spot negs with an opaquing pen, and...

My favorite is just an image placed in indesign with a missing font that is off the artboard and not even set to print! Just give me the damn .psd!!!!

I agree with this to a point. I think talented craftspeople need experts in current design tools and software too. Our frame fabrication crew and cutters can make any shape, any size. It's all hand bent and welded. The cutters use actual friggin scissors, and can freehand 20" radius corners with...

Hmm. I'm all self taught, and took a 40 hour cad class at a Voc school. I've also built cabinets, was a residential engineering tech, printer technician (HP's and Oce's), exhibit conceptual artist, draftsman, blueprinter. Isn't it really WHAT you put in and what you TAKE in whatever you are...

I have no hate for Corel, other than how it handles transparency and such. This wouldn't be an issue if the design had adequate bleed and didn't need doctorin'....but it usually not the case around here. I concur that is not the vehicle that gets you to a clean and lean workflow. I used Rhino to...

We bend tube frame, so I have develop all of the 3d surfaces to make art templates. I have to know a 40' fabric print is going to fit on a ten foot tall radiused wall. I cant tell you how many times I have received art for a round sign that is sized to a front projection. C'mon people! Pi ...

This is great! Can you teach them also not to make a clipping mask that is roughly 1 percent of the original image!!! Like hanging off the artboard once the mask is released!

We get the "do what you did last time" very regularly. It's hard when you care more about the end product than you customer. I also agree that education is the time and energy YOU input. I don't expect everyone to be an expert on how things work in production...just KNOW what the heck you want!