Reg Marks on I-Image ST / Colour Print

[ffokazak]

I have a new Press op who is used to doing things the old way and he has requested that we print sim process images with reg marks. ( I don't want to hinder what the employees get or say no if they ask for something. I have been good without reg marks ever since we installed the I-Image... but he is used to them of course)

Is there a way to setup the Colorprint RIP to have only two reg marks dead centre?

I have found the only option to be one in each corner... Coming from none to 4 is tough haha. I can maybe do 2...

I guess I could build them into the artwork? Is that how you guys do it?

Thanks!
 

[jvanick]

I have a new Press op who is used to doing things the old way and he has requested that we print sim process images with reg marks. ( I don't want to hinder what the employees get or say no if they ask for something. I have been good without reg marks ever since we installed the I-Image... but he is used to them of course)

Is there a way to setup the Colorprint RIP to have only two reg marks dead centre?

I have found the only option to be one in each corner... Coming from none to 4 is tough haha. I can maybe do 2...

I guess I could build them into the artwork? Is that how you guys do it?

Thanks!

I'd just put them into your template as 'registration color'... that way you can control the size and shape... the i-image rip ones don't seem that useful other than as a 'raw' registration...

[Alex M]

I will only comment on the ColorPRINT side of things. As you have discovered you can only have the four reg marks in the corners of the art bounding box in our rip. It is best to place them in the art where you would like them if the four do not work for you.
Thanks,

[244]

I will only comment on the ColorPRINT side of things. As you have discovered you can only have the four reg marks in the corners of the art bounding box in our rip. It is best to place them in the art where you would like them if the four do not work for you.
Thanks,

you also may want to use halftones to make the reg mark. Use the smallest dot in your file and when you wash out the screen that can be a reference to see if you held the dots. Just a FYI.

[mk162]

We've always used reg marks from whatever program we output from.  I find it easier.  When we were using a reg system i would put them across the top only and none on the bottom.

we still put reg marks on complex sim-process jobs just to make sure we nailed registration.  We honestly run so few around here it's no biggie.  Most of our stuff is spot color work.

[ffokazak]

Thanks guys,

Ill have to find a way to drop the art into a photoshop template with two custom reg marks in the centre, that transfer over to all of the sepped channels...

[Alex M]

Bring your Photoshop file into illustrator and add them as vector reg marks in registration color so they will automatically be placed on all colors/channels.


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[ffokazak]

Hah Was just about to write, "I found out how!" but you beat me to it!

Thanks Alex, great support.

[Frog]

Years ago when someone was teaching me how to stumble around Photoshop 6, he set up my standard "rifle sight" reg marks for me as brushes

[jsheridan]

I have a new Press op who is used to doing things the old way

Tell him no..  it's a new age, get used to it.

[ffokazak]

Is there the same "REG" Colour in Photoshop?  If I do my seps in .PS and place them in .AI to put the crop marks, the files get huge. They take forever to RIP on the I-IMage computer...

Would be so much easier to do crops in Photoshop. How are you guys doing seps in .PS and placing two crop marks in the centre of the image?

Thanks!

Tell me about it John... Who needs reg marks!