Fingerprinting a Sheetfed Press
Fingerprinting a Sheetfed Press
- Subject: Fingerprinting a Sheetfed Press
- From: Matt Smolka <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:45:57 -0400
Fellow list-members,
One of the projects at Ryerson University's Graphic Communication Program is to design a special project in which students design and carryout their own testing of a printing process.
In light of this, I'm looking at fingerprinting our GTO52 2/c as well as our DI 4/c presses using M-Real coated and uncoated stocks. What would be the ideal method in going about this? IT8 target? GATF testform? Can anyone provide me with links to resources or testing procedures?
Ideally, he aim is for a neutral grey balance as well as target wet densities. Printing conditions are such that SWOP standards are used even though it is a sheetfed press. I'm thinking that maybe we should be using GRACOL standards for this test and implementing the use of these standards for the future, unless someone can suggest reasons to keep using SWOP.
Data gathered here would be used to generate dot gain compensation curves for both uncoated and coated stocks for our premedia labs, i.e. Photoshop curves. The intent here is to produce a press sheet that can be profiled and used as a curve template for our Apogee RIP/Meta Dimension RIP as well as being used to "soft-proof" documents on lab workstations (which are profiled every week).
Thanks in advance for the insight.
Matt Smolka
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