Creating Realistic Proofs

[chevalier]

The best I can suggest is that you can purchase and retrofit a 1 or two color press to apply UV coatings pretty inexpensively. Yes, you're still heading out onto the press floor, but just to coat.

I went prospecting down that road but it wasn't economically sound compared onsite press approval even if we had to adjust and re-plate. I think (hope) the inkjet technology is going to catch-up in time.

[David Milisock]

The best I can suggest is that you can purchase and retrofit a 1 or two color press to apply UV coatings pretty inexpensively. Yes, you're still heading out onto the press floor, but just to coat.

If you didn't need to spot coat I'd suggest a simple stand-alone UV coater. Or here's a link to a company marketing some varnishes specific for inkjet prints: http://www.breathingcolor.com/action/bc_shop/165/

>The best I can suggest is that you can purchase and retrofit a 1 or two color press to apply UV coatings pretty inexpensively. Yes, you're still heading out onto the press floor, but just to coat.
Do you think that's a viable solution for a market that netting 2%?

[rich apollo]

>The best I can suggest is that you can purchase and retrofit a 1 or two color press to apply UV coatings pretty inexpensively. Yes, you're still heading out onto the press floor, but just to coat.
Do you think that's a viable solution for a market that netting 2%?

Currently, the only way to view coated proofs is to coat them. I'm talking about, at worst, hanging a single plate, versus plating the whole job - which is what the original poster is doing.

The last 2-color press I sold went for a song. Okay, for a song and a dance and we made the guy show us some leg.

[David Milisock]

Currently, the only way to view coated proofs is to coat them. I'm talking about, at worst, hanging a single plate, versus plating the whole job - which is what the original poster is doing.

The last 2-color press I sold went for a song. Okay, for a song and a dance and we made the guy show us some leg.

>The last 2-color press I sold went for a song. Okay, for a song and a dance and we made the guy show us some leg.[/
I heard that! The real issue si the run size, if it's big enough to pay for the proof cost.