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That can be true with some designs. I don’t do a ton of straight design work myself, but if I do, I usually try and use vectors when possible #1 and if it’s a heavy image type banner I usually drop the dpi to 150 or 100 depending on the size. They look pixelated up close, but from afar they look fine. Thanks for watching.

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My pleasure!

Are you referring to the layout of the cards on the sheet?

That is correct. The die line would have to be vector. If your customer supplied a file with a die line as a raster or bitmap then it would just part of the image. You’d either need them to resend or do some kind of removing in photoshop.

Go to tools -> print production -> preflight. When that window opens you’ll see three icons in the center of the window. The wrench icon is for fix ups. When you have it selected in the upper right of the window it should say options with a drop down selector. From there you click “create fixup” and you’ll find the built in Adobe preflight fix up profiles. Let me know if that helped.

@@miketheprintman Thank You Mike, Found it!!//Now I can continue with the tutorial

As far as I know the c9200/9500 have the color calibrator built in. I wasn’t aware that there was even an option not to have it. Personally I think it’s a great feature of the machine and worth whatever price you have to pay for it. I have heard some stories that the Km 14000 had some growing pains when they first released it, but I’m sure they worked them out by now. My money would’ve on the 9500 though. Ricoh makes great machines.

There are 2 “Optional” quality control features with the 9500. 1. Image Quality Monitor- Checks for imperfections in print 2. Auto Color Diagnosis - this automatically corrects color when in production. Maybe your 9200 already has this in its build.

@@johnmcadams4738 Those could be new features. I know on the 9200 there is a built in scanner that auto detects image quality and will attempt to fix imperfections in the prints. The c9500 has probably improved on that feature, so that could be what that is. Either way, I don't see how having that could be a downside.

I know that toner squares are applied to the image belt and the densities are scanned read and adjusted but if you want the printed image itself read and adjusted to the RIP image that is where the optional feature of Auto Color Diagnosis comes into play. My sales rep on this area says he never sells these 2 options because of how good the machine is w/out them.

Well if that’s the case I would forgo getting that unit. Unless you’re trying to become G7 certified or have a lot of customers that require super accurate color.

Right on. Stay tuned, tonight I’m doing a follow up with a way to automate it even further.

Check out my latest video. I did a set up where you automate the whole process. Good for doing multiple banners and multiple sizes all at once.

I wish I could. I try to make these videos as ways to help others learn, but it’s nothing formal. Are you needing help with training?

@@miketheprintman i own a moving company and want to change get in to printing .. i saw your comment making 50k a week it really wanted me to take this serous

@@KWANTlZE Ah. Well it's definitely doable, but I work for a well established company that's been in business for over 25 years. That number has been built up over time. It is certainly achievable, however, it just takes a lot of hard work selling your services. On top of that it is a very technical business, so there is a big learning curve. I'd be happy to give pointers on where to start, what next steps in establishing business are, etc. John my Patreon, it's free, that is a much easier place to chat back and forth.

@@miketheprintman thnak you bro

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#1, make sure you have all your static elements on the master page, not on page 1 of the document. The multiple record layout looks at all items on the page, so if you have crop marks it will think you're trying to make those multiple as well. #2, make sure you don't have any large text boxes because InDesign will think you don't have enough room to place multiple records on one page. Hope that helps.

First off, thanks for watching, glad the preflight is helpful for you. 2nd, yes, you can apply multiple fixups at once using the action wizard in Acrobat. I'm actually going to be doing a new video either today or tomorrow that will show how to use multiple preflights at one time. However, until then, search out Acrobat Action Wizard online and you should find some good information on it.

That's a great catch. I forgot to put a "n" before "TEL" in the phone number part of the excel file. That's what caused it to not read properly. I just updated the file on the Google Drive, feel free to redownload and test again. Thanks for catching that. One small character missing and the whole thing blows up on you.

@@miketheprintman dude. Awesome thank you.

Thanks. I think the reason I did so well is that I had a lot of older videos that get quite a few views. It just took so freaking long to get to 4,000 watch hours. I appreciate the comment. Keep making your videos, I've been watching since the beginning.

Don't know. That script has been around forever, so maybe the developer is no longer around. I agree thought, that would make the script damn near perfect for placing PDFs.

That's the plan! Thanks for watching.

Dude, I agree 100%. I was going to be happy with like $10 in a month at first. Over $100 is awesome. Just keeps me motivated to stay at it.

Awesome, thank you!

Thanks. That’s the plan. Appreciate the watch.

Thank you, I appreciate that. I'm glad you're getting some good use out of them. I try to make it like that because I remember needing help with simple questions every so often. Thanks for watching.

No, it won’t. For fore edge printing you would need to set up a completely different file based on the book’s thickness and height. Usually it would be best to contact your printer to get specs on the dimensions required for the fore edge artwork.

You got the PPD in the correct folder? Also make sure it is in all versions of InDesign you have installed. With the way they update, you have to make sure it’s in all the versions of ID.

@@miketheprintman Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I've double checked those a few times and it still doesn't work. For reference I'm using the latest InDesign 2024 software and I've downloaded the PPD file and copied it into Applications>Indesign>Presets>PPDs folder>[the file]. Am I missing something or doing something wrong?

@@saghimalekanian7275 You have your folder named as "PPDs" only right? Not "PPDs folder". If it isn't named that exact name it won't work. Let me know.

@@miketheprintman Yes, it's named PPDs - exactly like you were showing on the video.

@@saghimalekanian7275 Last thing I can think of is when you go to print, you're selecting Postcript File under printer right? Once you make that selection the Adobe PDF 9.0 PPD should show up. If you don't have it selected as a Postcript file it will probably point to a local printer. Let me know. Sorry, had to diagnose the problem without seeing your setup.

I have the original file linked in the description. You can download it and use it however you’d like. But if you specific questions I’d be happy to help. Just let me know.

@@miketheprintman thank you. I didn’t think to check in the description. I’m glad you understood what I was asking. I appreciate you!❤️

@@ambrag2cute358 No problem. I figured that was what you were looking for. Thanks for watching.

No problem.

You bet!

The image in the center does require some testing. I had to shrink it down a couple of times before it worked properly, but it does scan. There is a certain percentage of the code that can be covered and still work.

You’re welcome. Thank you for the Super Thanks!

Glad it helped.

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If you have text placed in, say from a Word document, you can autoflow your text when you make your text box. It will auto fit to the margins of each page. To do that, go to file -> place and select your word file. When the cursor appears with the text loaded, go to the top left hand corner of your first page, hold shift + alt or shift + command (mac) and it will auto flow your text and automatically created new pages. If you don't want it to create new pages and just use whatever pages you have in your InDesign document, just hold shift. If you already have a text box that has overflowed text in it, select the box with the + symbol in the bottom right hand corner, that will load all your text and you can then do the same thing, holding shift or shift + alt/cmd to make it flow. Hope that helps.

@@miketheprintman Hi Mike thank you !

@@jahlynkaruna8323 No problem.

No problem. Thanks for watching.

I agree. Plus I don’t want to pay for something extra that I really don’t need. The old colors were close enough as is.

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Thank you so much for the super thanks!!! Glad the video was helpful. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it.

No problem. Glad I could help.

No problem. Happy to help. Thanks for watching.