Re: Fingerprinting or profiling presses
Re: Fingerprinting or profiling presses
- Subject: Re: Fingerprinting or profiling presses
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:21:44 -0400
> Don - I understand why profiling a press might be advantageous in a testing
> environment or a tightly controlled operation, but I find, in my experience
> in selling and preparing ads for publication, that many printing operations
> are not very tightly controlled. To see and example, go to my web site
> http://www.zero1inc.com/Cautions_for_Press_Runs.htm.
> Mark F. Rice
Mark,
Your caution reads:
> Here are two pages from the same magazine (to remain unnamed), but different
> parts of the press run, showing how much variability can occur in a press run.
> If one tries to profile or "fingerprint" a press, what part of the press run
> does one choose? I prefer to profile the proof, and the printer should then be
> required to match the proof.
It seems like a catch 22 situation, either way the color *will* vary and
never meet expectations. If we aim for the press, as your picture point out,
there will be intra-run variation beyond the press aim point. But if we aim
for some chemical proofing system, like ColorArt or Matchprint or Approval
or FinalProof, then part of the run will also *not* match the proof.
So which is better, really?
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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