onsdag den 17. februar 2010

HP Indigo RIP's and preflight - or the lack of it!

I am getting very tired of the RIP on an Indigo 5500. There is no real checks and no fixes, compared to my NexPress, the HP is left behind with decades. Since there seems to be no official preflight profile for Acrobat or PitStop, I will now create my own. If anybody reading this would like these profiles, or have suggestions on what to check for and eventually fix in files, please let me know!

Just for starters I'll check for these things:

Ink coverage over 280%
Missing fonts
OPI images
RGB (just as a warning)
Pictures below 150 dpi
White text that does not knockout

/Tommy

Update 11-04-2010

OK, now I've done a .KFP file for Acrobat, which does check for the above and also checks for text in 5 points or less in more than one separation. I also need to check for line width (a very big issue on some jobs), I just don't know what the minimum acceptable line width is in the standard 4-color hotfolder? I'll upload the .KFP file ASAP!

If anyone would be interested in a Pitstop Profile, I can easily create such as well! Also, if you are aware of other things which are "must-haves" in a preflight for the Indigo, please let me know!

/Tommy

lørdag den 6. februar 2010

HASP USB driver får virtuel XP til at crashe

Har netop konstateret at programmer, der bruger Aladdins HASP driver system, får virtuelle XP maskiner i VirtualBox til at crashe og gå ned med BSOD igen og igen, hvilket umuliggør brugen af diverse programmer :(

Iflg. diverse indlæg i Suns fora, så er der måske noget at gøre hvis man disabler VM-t eller noget andet, har dog ikke testet af endnu!