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RIGHTS MANAGEMENT LIMITED ACCESS FOR PDF ARTWORK SENT TO PRINTERS

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2010-07-19 16:46:09
paintwizard
Registered: Sep 5 2009
Posts: 10
Answered

I posted last year about this and learnt about LC management which is helpful,

its just the cost.!

I`m a designer/illustrator and looking to print my digital artworks with online giclee printers to canvas who are in the U.S and U.K but I am in Australia.

I wanted to use livecycle rights management to give them access to printing my artwork yet keep it limited in being able to pass the file around to other printers..

However the cost for a single person is prohibitive,

I`m hoping adobe can set up something for digital artists to create confidence in sending out artwork as PDF to printers, like an online subscription plan for livecycle rights management, or pay per use or annual fee, something like this where adobe manage the servers..

I am using the creative suite lease version online for monthly rental of $130 and really enjoy the system of the 12 month contract. I`m hoping to access something like this for live cycle management.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.1, Windows
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2010-07-19 23:53:07
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UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
A subscription service is being developed (see http://dc.adobe.com ) but it can't be used to secure PDFs sent for service digital printing, as the print shop will need the ability to alter the document (for example to impose pages into the media sizes they print to, add crop marks, color-match plates, etc). Digital printers therefore invariably demand that the PDFs they are sent have no security applied at all.

They also tend to use different software (Illustrator, etc) or old versions of Acrobat, which won't support DRM. If your PDF is completely ready to print without changes, most printers send the file to a standalone RIP - and they don't open secured files at all.

Trusting the printer with your files is part of the deal when you print using a service bureau. If you don't, don't. There's no way round it.
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