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DING DING DING!!! THIS! I don't know about the free school thing, the content getting taught definitely needs a shot in the arm. I feel design software makers are partly to blame as well. in that they create tools and scenarios that fundamentally fail at a RIP. WTF is it possible to do a pantone...

Autotrace! NOOOOOO!!!! Seriously, it takes skill to arrive at clean, versatile vector art. My guess is they skewed a rectangle with round corners...and had to reshape them.

Nice! We have an incredibly strict prepress workflow, and actually use the layers and object palette in Illustrator. ALL extraneous bullshit gets eradicated, and every spot color accounted for and corrected if need be. I fight to get assets...but do have to print quarter inch pixels from time to...

My whole life is a series of begs and pleads for digital assets. Amazing how reckless people are with their own corporate logos.

Indesign logos! LMAO!!! You sir, are a man (or person) after my own heart! Honestly, the majority of our problems derive from indesign. That's why we don't take pdfs for production art. Just send us the NATIVE stuff!

100% agree. An underlying issue for us, is that we are a blind partner in many cases. Our customer isn't the end user. I have to go through account managers that don't speak graphic geek, so much of the content can get lost in translation. We send out graphic guidelines, but have found layouts...

If by any chance this specific designer sees this...no disrespect. I have been up against it and had to do stuff like this. It pained me then, and obviously now. I'm making single signs now where material alone is a grand, so I HAVE to know it's right.

I come across this all of the time. At risk of sounding condescending I'm wondering if and how other people are dealing with print files from the latest graphic designer culture. Is anyone getting GOOD technically sound mechanical art for grand or large format printing? Like with no missing...

Not sure you do anything really. There is a report that will generate from the rip stating if Fogra colors are in gamut...similar to pantones. I found this in the "easy media" module of Caldera. There is an extended preflight module that will let me do job costing and generate reports with this...

This may be a dumb question...but are you sure one layout isn't cmyk and one rgb in Illustrator? Gradients and transparency will render completely different. Your designated spots would come out the same, but builds would render differently. Also... you cannot embed profiles in an Illustrator...

Metamerism. It's a pretty common thing. Unless you have controlled d50 lighting for proofing this will almost always occur. Pantone makes little stickers that only show up in the d50 controlled light. I battle this constantly with tradeshow graphics. I can't assess color in the show hall (all of...

I agree with CJ...check your file. What software did you create your test print in? Are all of the spot colors still designated as spots...as opposed to process? One quick way to see if it's the Pantone black swatch itself would be to convert EVERYTHING to process...it should show up. When I...

Are you using a blending mode? We've found really multiply and normal are about the only blending modes that will render. We NEVER put transparent spot colors over each other. We usually have to pick the most critical one and the rest goes to process. You'll want to watch out for "overprint"...

We run slugs of the same spot color along side of the print to keep all of the heads firing. Maybe tack a blue slug onto the beginning of your print files to get everything going before the billable print starts.

Have you ripped from Onyx to any other printers? It might also be a button on the actual printer. For our Mimaki, if it wasn't set to "remote" nothing would happen.

This is nice if you don't need to hit a known device build. You wouldn't be able to control the green without it being affected by an Illustrator effect. We would do a solid fill of the green as one object...then put a seperate black to transparent gradient over the top. Sometimes vice versa...

If you have strong Illustrator skills, mainly in vector manipulation/boolean...pathfinder type stuff, you should be pretty good. I am of the opinion that graphics people should learn cad and drafters should learn Illustrator. When I got into this in the late 90's I saw there was always a...

We don't go to print until we have an approval from the client on a digital proof. When we go to print we have the approved digital proof printed and attached to the work order. I've found the more times we look at it, the better the chance of catching it. If you made the typo...it's on you...

We use Rhino. A bit of a learning curve, but it has some great tools. I use it to develop curved surfaces, and unwrap them for art templating. It plays nice with Illustrator, many cad programs don't. Great support...a TON of free plugins. I had some 3d cad experience before I started using it...