print saturation problem
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- D_Dot
My boss asked me to design a full colour booklet to be printed on magazine quality stock. I have done this for the past month or so and it's around 90 pages with lots of images. I find out today after sending to test print last night, that he is using newspaper stock, and the printer needs me to turn down the saturation or else the paper turns to mush.
What are my options here?
- pyeaton0
Tell the printer to take care of it. They know their press better than you right?
- pyeaton0
Tell the printer to take care of it. They know their press better than you right?
At least have them give you guidelines to do it.
- designerror0
Always with the lazy printers!
Tell em to do it them self! They know how but just don't wanna move a finger.
- D_Dot0
Really it's something easy for them to fix? I provided a pdf to them. will they be able to do it with that?
- D_Dot0
Can this be changed in the ink manager in Acrobat?
- rasko40
leave that shit to those roll-up smoking lazy ass printers, they never want to take responsibility for anything
- Rand0
and tell them if they fuck it up they won't get paid
- pyeaton0
Saturation is not the issue here. It is with the amount of dots that their RIP lasers onto their plate. Called lpi. For newsprint, I can only imagine that it is a very low lpi. Therefore, very little tweaking would have to be done in the first place. And what little there is, it is their problem.
- D_Dot0
Thanks. Seems like the answer is to leave it to them or don't pay them.
- Rand0
to be on the safe side I would make a new pdf with newsprint color settings and send it to them
- rasko40
Printers are like car mechanics, they see a pdf and their stroking their chins "ooh this looks a tricky one, Steve, what do you reckon mate?" "oh yeah, that's a tricky one alright hmmm"
- designerror0
Saturation can be fixed in Acrobat with Pitstop. Very easy to do, and like pyeaton said, it's most likely a RIP issue they don't want to be bothered with, but fact is, it's their problem, not yours. If they don't wanna do it, tell them you will go elsewhere with your business, in the future too.
- visualplane_0
On newspaper stock, the ink tends to bleed more that's why you're getting the saturation.
- Rand0
whenever I used to go to the printers I would miss my exit on the way home because the fumes made me so light headed
- D_Dot0
I was a little skeptical of this printer from the beginning. I was never given an acrobat preset, so right there I new there would be problems, but it's not up to me where the thing gets printed. I'll just have to deal with it I guess.
Thanks all.
P.S driving under the influence of printing fumes is an illegal offence.
- agentfour0
if they say they cant do it, aske them for the colour settings file and distiller options specific to what they need with corredt dot gain, ink levels etc. Usually newspaper cant take ink levels above 220 or some whit like that. Shoudl be able to change your colour settings and re-export.
or tell the lazy arse printer to do it in pitstop as someone else said.
- visualplane_0
Next time you go to the press check, bring a shot gun.
- Sickman0
tell them "this is your job" and you will be receiving a half ass output. don't bother complaining. when you get those sort of response from printers just take your work elsewhere.