Quick question, getting ready to re-do our calibration, it's almost been a year, new papers, new inks, etc. We did this last time by getting to gray balance on press and just creating one curve for CMY, doing this manually with graphs, I don't have the curve software and won't be getting it either, and I wondered how far or what the limits are to pushing the densities around to get gray balanced on press? We achieved it last time with 170-148-135-100, kcmy and this has worked very well, when the press is ran to gray balance, but our numbers lately to get there have been more like 160-155-130-100. So what do you think the limits should be of pushing the densities around to get gray balance, and still give some latitude on press? Don't want them to have to run the density so high that it makes it more susceptible to plugging or scumming or so low as to be on the verge of washing out all the time.
Just really don't want to create separate CMY curves by hand with graphs if I don't have to! How-to says to only do it at 50% anyway for a press, so what would you do, smooth the curves from that new adjusted 50% point, if you did separate CMY curves?
Thanks for any input,
Terry
Just really don't want to create separate CMY curves by hand with graphs if I don't have to! How-to says to only do it at 50% anyway for a press, so what would you do, smooth the curves from that new adjusted 50% point, if you did separate CMY curves?
Thanks for any input,
Terry