Posts Tagged ‘GAI’

Create a Preflight Droplet

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

July 7th, 2008

by Jeff Gamet

Acrobats Preflight tools are powerful and complex. But you can simplify your preflight life by creating a standalone droplet. Then, any PDF you drop onto it will be tested against specific project requirements, and can then be automatically moved into a different folder and a report generated.

A few of the choices are:

  • List all images
  • List non CMYK objects
  • List text using non-embedded fonts
  • Document creates more than four plates
  • PDF/X-1a compliant
  • PDF/X-3 compliant
  • Magazine ads
  • Sheetfed offset
  • Web offset
  • List images below 250 ppi

Training to Prevent Prepress/Print Mishaps

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Mistakes do happen. Fonts, color and images quality are the prime culprits that damage smooth print workflows. These problems are just some of the topics covered as part of the Graphic Arts Institute [GAI] training program in San Francisco.

Located in the Northern California Print Center, which also is home to the Printing Industries of Northern California [PINC] and a number of other print-related businesses, the GAI’s in-plant uses a four-color 20-inch Heidelberg Speedmaster press to produce fliers, brochures, booklets and envelopes in print runs up to 8,000 units. Many of these printed pieces include information about PINC’s and GAI’s health program and health insurance program.


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