Re: SWOP as religion
Re: SWOP as religion
- Subject: Re: SWOP as religion
- From: Dan Caldwell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:42:36 -0800
On 2/8/04 5:19 PM, "Roger Breton" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Speaking of CTP in this chain, I was at a printer last week where we
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experimented with "linear" vs "dot-gained" CTP and it turns out that, in
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order to match the bulk of separarations work still being pumped up
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conventionnally by today's separations houses (and what not), a
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conscientious lithographer has no choice but to run its CTP in a way that
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the gain between dot percentages in, let's say Photoshop, and the measured
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Apparent Dot Area on the printed sheet has to be in what it was in the film
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to analog plate days, which is 22% for black, 20% for cyan and magenta and
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20% for yellow.
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Is there a consensus on what to run CTP at in North America nowadays? Are
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there shops that run their CTP "linear"?
Most shops still apply a curve at the plate setter. Some are beginning to
set up linear and build a profile to handle this compensation. These shops
use a profile to profile (mostly CMYK to CMYK) transformation before the
plate setter or in the CTP Rip instead of the curve.
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Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007
office 760-942-7434
cell 760-801-2192
Lat 33001.730 North
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