Re: swop and euroscale
Re: swop and euroscale
- Subject: Re: swop and euroscale
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:24:03 +0200
on 30/05/01 14:35, claudiocorvino at email@hidden wrote:
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I took a look to a couple of profiles (or, to better say, two Photoshop
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conversion tables) two different printers gave me:
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the first is for commercial catalogues roto-offset (I think) printing. It
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says SWOP, dot gain 20%, CGR, black ink limit 80%, total ink 360%, very
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light black generation (starting at 20%).
This one's okay although uses the swop inkset values.
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The second table is for fashion brossures printing;
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custom inks, dot gain 20%, GCR, medium black generation, black ink limit 99%
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(??), total ink 400%, UCA 50%.
This one's bogus. This'll get the ink police after you with their sirens
screaming.
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Here in Italy many prepress guys consider CM as something potentially
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dangerous to keep away from.
Mondadori had some consultant go in and profile their presses. He obviously
didn't understand how to build a press profile as the ink is at 389% for a
high speed gravure press. This is just the reason to be wary of misinformed
prepress people and the consequences that can arise from this. In the end
the success or failure of the print will lie in the hands of the person
taking on the responsibility of the separations for the press. If one is to
follow this misinformed advice by the providers they will turn it into your
problem at the first chance.
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Hope this help.
It does help to know that we're having similar problems with getting through
to the printers and prepress shops that we're trying to make them look good
by providing the best possible images from the start!
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape