RE: New SNAP Standard, GCR
RE: New SNAP Standard, GCR
- Subject: RE: New SNAP Standard, GCR
- From: Ernst Vegt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:51:16 -0700
Eric Poem wrote:
GCR was a particular passion of mine and I was evangelical about it in
the mid 80's, even giving a few talks to the GCA conferences about it,
courtesy of a certain Ms Agi Rossos, of the press chemistry fame. We
had the first digital solution that enabled us to scan in PCR, as it
was termed then by the Hell company, on our DC350's, (great scanners).
The look up tables were loaded into the cabinet on 8 inch floppy discs!
To which Roger Breton replied:
Wow, 8 inches floppy disks? You guys were true pioneers!
That's making me feel quite ancient, Roger. In the days before
scanners became common-place, we also produced separations with
varying amounts of UCR and GCR. This was done with a series of pre-
masks and masks on con-tone film. Later, we ran Hell 345 and 380
scanners and thought 8 inch floppies were bloody marvellous!
A true GCR story from the dove-grey & pink era.
As young whipper-snappers, we had to produce a catalogue that featured
grey handbags and shoes. Working hard over the weekend for a Monday
morning dead-line, there was no time to talk to anyone at the heatset
web plant that we were going to use something called GCR. (or PCR/ICR/
CCR, etc.) The job went on the press on Monday afternoon as the client
had approved the proofs, and the 'phone calls started arriving.
"The colour has never looked this good!" stated the plant manager. The
salesperson congratulated us, the end client thanked us profusely.
Only then did we let them know that we had done the scans rather
differently than usual.
"How dare you jeopardize an important job without asking first!" "We
should have tested this before hand" were cries from the management
and sales people. However, the press crews thanked us for making the
catalogue so much more consistent throughout the press run and from
page to page, and eventually hearts and minds (and further good
business) were won over!
Best regards, Ernst Vegt
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