DCS images

[Toweri]

What about taking each of the channels and making them 2400dpi bitmap tiff files and...

Careful. Do we know that the resolution of the processed CopyDot files is 2400 DPI? If not, resampling them could ruin the screening, resulting in severe moiré.

With lineart-only files, or if the resolution is honoured, this suggestion is 100% valid!

[JohnHemsley]

Use DCS Merger from Impressed, job done.

Impressed - Produkte: Impressed DCSMerger

[JohnHemsley]

or Prinergy if you have it.

[PeteS]

One way to handle this would be to use Creo Copydot Toolkit to merge and save or merge and descreen. If this is a one time thing contact me. We still have a server that runs this program from back in the days of copydot film scanning. It can save the file out as a composite eps with copydot data intact or descreen it into a Photoshop file. Pete

[William Campbell]

Same here. I have copydot toolkit. If it's one file, ftp it over here and I'll convert it to a composite. Nothing else is going to work. The DCS is not anything standard. The main file is like others, listing the 4 color plates and storing a color composite, but those color files are 1-bit TIFFs likely G4 compressed (which Photoshop is clueless to decode). I can make a composite that works in PDF workflows or split the thing into separate TIFF files. And the earlier post is quite right -- if the resolution doesn't match your device moire will ruin the job. I can re-sample rez with toolkit also.