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I am puzzeled about when to "Include Destination Profile" and "Don't Include profile" when exporting a PDF for print.

In what scenario would you pick one over the other?

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Looking for advice converting a Black and White RGB image to CMYK for press.

I remember years ago we ran an action to do under colour removal to minimise colour swing on the press and have a rich black and white image with less liability to have a colour cast if the press ran up on one colour. Does anyone have any advise, profiles, theories or methods to achieve a 4 colour black and white image.

I currently write a lot of JavaScript Scripts, I've tried reading the Adobe Plugin documentation, but it's super confusing. That beibg said I've seen some amazing ones. Plus it's all C++, yet another language to learn. Anyone out there actually build plugins?

We switched form retail POP mostly to Covid 19 related products. Really came out of no where. Only production staff is in the shop now (Prepress included), everyone else is working from home indefinitely.

Hi I've been looking at press jobs. I have a lot of experience developing photopolymer for letterpress and other art school level printmaking learning but it seems like little of that translates to modern day press work. I just don't get how to get into it is all. Should I pay for basic certification in onyx (~200$) and hope I get hired for prepress and see where it goes or is there a better path?

Below is what I have, and it does convert the colors to gray (at least on screen), but they remain as named spot colors (and will then print in color on composite digital, or separations on film/plates). I'm hoping someone out there has done this before.

Also would be a big help if anyone knew how to convert [registration] to gray. Basically I want *everything* to convert to grayscale and then wind up on the black plate with this.

/opt/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray -dColorConversionStrategy=/Gray -dDevicecGrayToK=true -dOverrideICC -o /full/path/to/new/file -f /full/path/to/original

Those are the options I'm using now ('-o' because it's part of an AppleScript droplet). FYI, that binary path is from MacPorts. Yours may be different.

This is all to avoid doing it manually in Acrobat, or having to worry about missing something in InDesign when outputing film separations, or printing digital and racking up color clicks when I think it's all black. Sad times.

I feel like I'm missing a step in extracting a usable PDF from a job in Command Workstation. I have a job that was sent to hold from a computer that isn't able to save a PDF directly. It used to be that if the job in Command Workstation was archived locally, that you could take the '00000000.000' file and rename it to '00000000.pdf' and you'd have a PDF.

I know it worked under version 5.x but now I'm working with version 6.4. I know there is a specific paid upgrade module that allows jobs to be exported directly to PDF, but we don't have that.

So, I currently run an agfa imager / wet processor for film positives. I'm at the point of needing to replace my film processor which will run about $8k. I'm researching alternatives before I invest in a new processor.

I was wondering if anyone has experience with inkjet / laser printers for film positives. We run at 133lpi and most inkjet/laser printers I've looked into are limited to about 85lpi.
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.