Re: Extending the Gamut of Offset Presses
Re: Extending the Gamut of Offset Presses
- Subject: Re: Extending the Gamut of Offset Presses
- From: joe borne <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:06:08 -0500
on 1/3/01 2:10 PM, email@hidden at
Dan Goodenow wrote:
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Does anyone know of any good reference material on 4+ color offset printing.
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I have a customer who is looking to extend the range of their 6 color offset
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press to hit a variety of colors for very specialized work they do. I know
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about hexachrome, and perhaps that is the easiest path to take, but I want
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to see what other possibilities exist.
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There are obviously a lot of considerations here as whatever we come up with
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would need to involve a digital proofer capable of proofing the color (this
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printer is exclusively CTP) as well as software to generate the separations.
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Luckily, this work is all flat colors so I am imaging a scheme where I read
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the patches with a spectrophotometer and then feed the Lab values through
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some software to come up with CMYK+?? values. Again, it would need to be
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proofed on some type of digital proofer, so perhaps I should start there
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(with a Roland printer or something) and try to work it out backwards to to
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see if we could simulate the proofer with the press. I realize this seems
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backwards, but since I have little control over what proofing combinations
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are available I'm thinking I should start there.
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I understand that this isn't exactly a mainstream topic, so if someone wants
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to contact me offline that would be fine. I'm almost certain that somewhere
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on this list is another color geek who likes this kind of challenge. Thanks
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in advance-
Dan, I will contact you off list, this is a field I have done extensive work
in.
Joe
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