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If you are suffering from the PDF Flu, here are some things to watch for and some ideas on how to ensure that every PDF you send through to production can process and run efficiently, whether going to print or an edelivery platform. Let's look at your options!
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Pat is a well-known evangelist for inkjet productivity. At McGrew Group, she uses her decades technical and marketing experience to lead the industry toward optimized business processes and production workflows. She has helped companies to define their five-year plans, audited workflow processes, and developed sales team interventions and education programs. Pat is the Co-Author of 8 industry books, editor of A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge, and a regular contributor to Inkjet Insight and WhatTheyThink.com.
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Discussion
By Hans Sep on Nov 19, 2024
I was anticipating what direction this series would head towards. Let me play devil's advocate here: with exception of PDF complexity, none of the issues mentioned here are problematic for today's DFE's.
By Pat McGrew on Nov 19, 2024
Hi Hans! I know the Fiery is excellent. However, it is not the only DFE in the market, and even the Fiery can face challenges with highly complex print files. The goal of the series was to encourage people to do two things: understand the capabilities and configurations of the DFEs they live with, especially if their shop has devices with different firmware levels or different DFE vendors and then to look at the PDF files they process. We hear from printers frequently that they are waiting on files to process on the DFE and that they do encounter files that choke DFEs frequently. I politely disagree that none of these issues is problematic for today's DFEs. Cheers!