Re: Standards?
Re: Standards?
- Subject: Re: Standards?
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:05:36 -0400
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I have a customer with thousands of separated images for Lo Gain
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Matchprint on Superwhite base. They print their work at approx. 13
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different sheetfed printers around the country. Over time they were
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able to print their commercial jobs very dependably with this proof.
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Now most printers have gone CTP.
OK.
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Their dot gain is substantially less
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in many cases.
Because they chose to make it that way. Not because that's the way it is!
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The printer's vendors have advised them to set up their
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proofing system to their press as it runs with the CTP process linear.
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The result is a much more open printed sheet.
Yes, but who is going to pay for reseparation? How many printers have chosen
that road of printing 'linear'?
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As a result these printers are telling my customer that all of their
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images need to be corrected or re-separated at a considerable cost to
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them. My customer will not pay added costs to printers who now have far
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greater methods for controlling dot gain and densities. Since the
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printers didn't choose to calibrate to reachable standard that they
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previously used, they are losing these accounts.
With goog reasons.
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Sometimes I am not sure whether it is ignorance on the printers part or
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if it is a calculated ploy to bilk AA correction charges from unknowing
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art agencies.
It's either ignorance on their part or clearly a case of independent
attitude.
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How a printer chooses to set up their shop is purely a business
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decision. Closed loop or open. The question is, what are the digital
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standards for the various prepress processes and how are these proofs
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verified?
There are NO widely approved digital standard at this time! Only good common
sense. If I was these printers, I'd set up a queue with an dot gain closer
to film-based dot gain just for this customer of yours. It's easy to do. No
mess. But you know printers? They're not always making decision rationally.
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Bob
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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