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I have to agree with joe. you have to start dictating toy your printers to bring some sanity to your workflow. more than anything that's what you have to do.
as for the flattener settings the "high reolution" settings work well. the problem is that you've got too many opinions about what is "right".
there is nothing wrong with the pdf/x standards. in fact they are really what you *want*. the problrm with pdf/x-1a is with how adobe forces you to a cmyk color space. the actual standard says nothing about "only being cmyk". rather it allows cmyk, device-n and device gray or any combination of those three as long as there is an outpit intent describing the output color space.
iso standards are where you need to be. if you're putting that much work out there then it's time to start flexing tour economix muscle; i.e. tour check book.
a pdf/x based workflow can be achieved even with foreign prineters. that' the whole point of pdf/x!!!!
you will probably need some 3rd party tools to make it as efficient as possible. i'd love to discuss this with you and you boss. call me when yiu get a chance.
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