We just use pitstop or let our printer fix the files using pitstop.
If we do the work on a MAC no color issues.
Scott White
Media Production Manager
Implementation Coordinator
210-704-8239
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On Sep 26, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Rush, Jay wrote:
We've been using Frame for years for certain marcom pieces,
particularly where the content is similar or identical to content
in our technical documents. Basically, our technical marketing is
in Frame, while our corporate marketing is in InDesign. We have
successfully worked around Frame's RGB output by using Publi PDF, a
PDF creator/print queue monitor that has a Color Optimizer. It
analyzes the Frame color output and allows us to modify those
colors to either CMYK or Pantone prior to distillation to PDF. It
does a lot more. For instance, we have one print queue monitor set
up such that, by printing to that "printer," Publi PDF creates two
PDFs at the same time, both color-corrected according to our custom
color definitions, one high-res using one custom Distiller
joboption for our print environment, and one low-res using a
different custom Distiller joboption for posting to our website.
Pretty cool. Check it out at http://www.grafikhuset.net/
international/.
Jay Rush
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Color Output Problems
Windows XP Professional
FrameMaker 7.0
Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional
For the past 10 years I have been working with a firm that
manufactures steel decking for the construction industry. Our major
output has been two catalogs plus two updates (4 catalogs total),
ranging from 60 to 150 pages. Approximately 15-20 pages is text
with supporting illustrations. The remaining pages are tables that
have a header with an illustration of the deck profile and the
circumstance for its use. The tables, mostly on facing pages, are
typically 12 columns x 48 rows (plus or minus). Some tables also
have footnotes. Since our client has requested that each profile is
its owwn discrete file, we combine as many as 50 files into a
FrameMaker book. Except for the covers, the catalogs have been
printed in black + 1 spot color. (The covers are prepared by others
using Quark -- no problem.)
That one spot color is the problem. Commercial printers seem to
dislike FrameMaker output for offset printing because, in the
printers' view at least, Frame does a lousy job of handling color
output. For the four catalogs, we have used three printers, and
each one has had trouble with Frame's color output despite our
setting up FrameMaker separations and Distiller to the printers'
specifications. They claim that Frame outputs a lot of RGB color or
mixes RGB and CMYK color. The printer also wants output to an 11x17
page, but Frame says the output will overlap facing pages because
we use right and left master pages with more space on the binding
edge.
Basically our client is looking for answers two questions:
1. Is FrameMaker still the best software choice? If not, what
software or plug-ins would you recommend?
2. Assuming we continue with FrameMaker, how can we avoid the color
issues we’ve had with commercial printers?
I would think that many of you have encountered the same problems,
and I am most interested in hearing how you solved them.
Howard Rauch
Technology Transfer, Inc.
"Linking Creators and Users of Technology"
933 North 18th Street
Manitowoc WI 54220
Office: 920-682-1528
Cell: 920-629-0080
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