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Photoshop 4 was when I got in. Running quark on a power pc Mac OS8.6. I've been a technician on inkjets and large format scanners. The tools that are out now are quite a bit better in my opinion. Really the first go to as a culprit for problems is your process. My print environment is in a dusty...

Yes! we all have that special easy button built in! LMAO!

Another reason this is important is we will link to the same asset for our proof layout as well as our final print layout. Thank we know the same image is being used for all. Then if we need to make an adjustment, it will update everything! It's a major workflow help.

The issue I have, is that I cannot make up for inexperienced designers with a "catchall" set of rules and numbers. For instance: I ask for 75ppi at full scale. Say a customer opens their 14ppi image and upsrez to 75ppi. Now, technically their file is 75ppi, but most of us in print production...

For us, the problem with a customer embedding an image is it is now unworkable. You can extract it, but conversions to your working spaces take place. Our clients rarely give us enough bleed, so we need to open externally and flip edges or whatnot. We also avoid it for the reason of having only...

Uncompressed tiffs can be cumbersome, IMO. The compression Photoshop uses is actually very efficient and works well with Illustrator (and lossless). Regardless of the format...great care should be taken when dealing with images within Illustrator. Be sure to place linked images...DO NOT EMBED...

We don't use the "tape" method for anything. That was kind of my point. not much is stronger than stitches! We REALLY don't like SEG! Every mfr profiles are different...frames can be built incorrectly... Unfortunately we have a lot of customers that use this format for exhibiting, so we have to...

We run dye sub and build tension frames. Our frame shop is all custom with welded joints...snap button frames...keeping installation tool less. There is no substitute for a cut/sew department. Our team of finishers are seamstresses, and have worked in the field for decades. The finishing is a...

Remaining suspicious is understandable! My lead prepress tech is the same. We use pdf's...BUT we know exactly what works and what doesn't on the prepress end. We meticulously comb through art omitting any extraneous bs...like empy clipping masks...vector data off the artboard... If you're...

Those parameters are all fine and good for magazine art. 10 foot wide inkjets are a different beast. We have to KNOW we can get good results with minimal press checks. A lot of this dumbing down of graphic requirements is due to the fact that many prepress techs don't even know what to do with...

On the Adobe bashing front...I absolutely HATE how bloated the new software is... All of this Adobe Stock stuff should have a switch you can turn off. I can honestly say I will NEVER use this function. Photoshop takes FOREVER to load now...it's all a big pig. That all said, we have enormous...

All of the nested clipping masks are a DIRECT result of Indesign to Illustrator. We don't accept ANY file format created by indesign...only the native design with assets. Pdf from indesign? ...not unless it is a solid color of vector art with zero effects or transparency. It screws up all...

Be sure to work in a scale relatively close to your final output. The problem with working at 1:10 or 1:20 comes when raster effects are used in Illustrator. (your drop shadows will look like legos unless raster effect settings are accounted for) We typically work in quarter scale... For a 10...

Aren't these anti Adobe ranters the same that say profiles are a sham?! Or that color management is for "coloristas"...like we are some kind of prima donnas or something. Corel draw?! Gag! (...I can't figure out how to work at scale.....) Do people think blueprints are size for size? It's...

Sure glad I don't have a flatbed! My dyesub machine is an old Vutek that has new brains and printheads. PrinterEvolution Evo33 DS | Global Imaging I printed half of their sample images! Lol! It has all sorts of qwerks with the order I have to do things. If I purge two channels too close in...

If you are just trying to get your machines close...another option might just to be getting a densitometer. Since the machines are similar...and using the same ink...you could probably get them close by calibrating them. The ink gamut is the same, and that is what you are trying to maximize...

Nothing is worse than trying to teach yourself profiling with an iffy device and janky software. If you're paying cash, I'd make sure you get a screenshot of it passing it's white point confirmation. I'd hate to have you build some nasty profiles...think it was your process...and throw in the...

We run a dye sub machine, so to transfer paper, then calendar heat set to fabric. I am in the Seattle area as well, and have found I HAVE to wrap the remaining paper in shrink wrap within minutes of printing...or it takes on moisture and prints like crap. The nature of the transfer paper is to...

Is this happening on all medias? Can you recreate the problem on a fresh roll of material, or another substrate?

Are you printing through rip software...or just local to the printer from an Adobe application? Maybe do a jet test to check for blocked nozzles. A picture of that may be useful to post here too. This could also be a printhead alignment issue. There are actually a ton of things it could be...