Re: Short-run color printing from InDesign? iGen3 any good?

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From: Waldo
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:43

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Calum wrote:
> I needed some short-run printing (really short - 9 copies!), of an 8
> page booklet (each page A4, printed onto A3, folded, stapled etc).  All
> the small-run printers were very expensive (we're talking �50+), so I
> talked to some ordinary printers, found one, it was a small job for him
> so he did it for �12, and it turned out perfect.
> 
> The only problem was the PDF colours were screwed up, I had a black and
> white image with transparency (.png), and the transparency dyed the
> colour grey, in the end I got it all done in mono and it worked out
> well...
> 

If the output PDF contains transparency, you are screwed because no 
current RIP supports that. Use PDF 1.3 ("Acrobat 4") to flattern 
(rasterize) transparency.

Waldo

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