Gracol press runs
Gracol press runs
- Subject: Gracol press runs
- From: Roberto Michelena <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:03:44 -0500
(question to Don Hutchenson but cc'd to the list as it should be of
general interest)
Don,
On reading a press release from a year ago, regarding the press run at
Sandy Alexander to verify DTR004 and from which additional Gracol v6
data was derived, I found the following:
"Larry Steele of RGB Metrology conducted the press side measurements
for GRACoL and said that the initial results indicated that this was a
truly representative GRACoL press run close to the center of
conditions. "This was also one of the more consistent printing
conditions that we have experienced both throughout the sheet and from
run to run" said Larry Warter of the GRACoL Committee. Don Hutcheson
of the Manhattan Project added "the approach used to create the plates
produced very smooth curves that should be ideal to facilitate future
color managed printing under production conditions"
So couple of questions arise:
1) which was that approach used to create the plates? anything special?
2) if such a press run is so representative of Gracol (from the
wording it seems better than previous ones), does that mean it's
measurements would provide a better reference than DTR004 itself? will
DTR004 be replaced soon?
>From latest news it would seem that Gracol is moving faster than ECI
or Fogra (not to say ISO!) nowadays... quite a change from years ago!
while at the end everything will be the same standard (we all hope...
go PAB!!) ; however I wonder how fast are printers in the USA willing
to implement new standards... in some european color site (I don't
recall if ECI, Fogra, or maybe even Ifra) I have recently read
something like "germany: all printers will adopt the new standard on
xx of xx, 2005" ; can you imagine that?
-- Roberto Michelena
Infinitek
Lima, Peru
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