Re: CTP - reduced dot
Re: CTP - reduced dot
- Subject: Re: CTP - reduced dot
- From: Bret Hesler <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:20:18 -0500
- Thread-topic: CTP - reduced dot
Our inks are relatively low in Tack. It reduces the problems with picking,
and allows us to get relatively close to legacy midtone gain values with
plates that are close to linear.
Bret Hesler
L.P. Thebault Company
On 3/8/06 9:11 AM, "Jon Crook" <email@hidden> wrote:
> We are also running to GRACoL 7 but what you run to depends on what your
> intentions are. If you want to match legacy work then you would want to
> achieve the lab values, densities, and the appropriate dot gain as to what
> you where running before you went CTP. I have found that GRACol 7 is much
> easier to maintain than our legacy specs so any reprints that come through
> get a new proof for approval. In my experience, linear plates seem to look
> pretty flat on press
>
>
> On 3/8/06 7:16 AM, "Bret Hesler" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> We run curved plates to match the GRACoL 7 tone curve. When we switched to
>> digital halftone proofing and CTP, our legacy standard was Analog
>> waterproof. Three years ago, we lowered the dot gain targets to match the
>> GRACoL 6 spec, around 20%. Now with the GRACoL 7 targets, our plates are
>> near linear, and dot gains are in the mid to high teens.
>>
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