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    My company intend to buy a CRON CTcP machine

    A client in Nigeria have a few Cron CTP's with conventional plates/exposure. Never seen the machine and was surprised by the quality. I would say, as far I could see in a few weeks production, they work fine. The support was not the best though when I wanted to change the furniture on the...
  2. Achtung | Spitfire

    Binuscan experience?

    A comment from the developer (warning, not objective, comment can be biased). binuscan has several solutions. Gordo mention two solutions: IPM Service (Image Processing Machine, Windows Service). One of the oldest (first?) automatic image enhancement server solutions. Today there are several...
  3. Achtung | Spitfire

    HP Indigo Color Management

    Dear Photobook, I am not perfectly updated with the Indigo rip solution but some year back colour management was not a strong feature so to say in this rip. Great press, poor CM in rip. It is perhaps better today. One of my clients decided early to do the colour management before the jobs hit...
  4. Achtung | Spitfire

    ISO Ink density

    D is dead, kind of D is dead, kind of Density is still used by the press, built in or hand held device to control the press. To print ISO standard you need to print the right colour (Lab) in your primaries (CMYK), as was mentioned here. To find the right densities for the press operator you...
  5. Achtung | Spitfire

    Color Weirdness

    To color match but avoid wierdness To color match but avoid wierdness Hi, You could have a look at other color matching solutions. I say that since many of the output systems as the one you have are not that advanced as stand alone solutions. Most output solutions have support for device link...
  6. Achtung | Spitfire

    High speed web offset problems: trapping in black, ink quality and sequense issues

    Hello, Does anyone have any observations of trapping in K vs. C etc? I have observed serious problems with KCMY sequense where the black ink is not the best (but still within standard when it comes to how tacky it is, the pigmentation and the Lab as compared to ISO (ISO newspaper being a bit...
  7. Achtung | Spitfire

    ICC Profiles changing screen values

    Btw. Are you printing cmyk values or colours? If someone claim that 100% cyan and 50% magenta is a colour, just show him the plates and ask if they see any colour :)) A cmyk value without the profile from a client is not a colour. It is a silly value. If the client has given you the profile...
  8. Achtung | Spitfire

    ICC Profiles changing screen values

    But are you crazy? ;) Why remove valuable information? If someone actually tells you want they want, what they expect, what they saw on their monitor then thou shall respect that and carefully make sure you print what is expected from you. At least we do so. If you have a serious engine that...
  9. Achtung | Spitfire

    Help sought with ink savings applications

    Ink save, bogus and not. Ink save, bogus and not. First: I am not objective. If you want you can stop reading here*. You manager missed one vendor... They guilty one. Anyway. I will still try to answer as objectively as I can. Hope that my input is still appreciated. First of all I would...
  10. Achtung | Spitfire

    Binuscan cms server

    Ian, no problem. Now, I have to comment on some other another product, without mentioning their name. I discovered yesterday that another product and a company that I always respected, as compared to some others, that copied our concept all the time. Now what happen the other day is that even...
  11. Achtung | Spitfire

    Binuscan cms server

    Cool. I asked questions since you seem to know so much, negative things, about our product. I on other hand, I do not know anything of your product and I would not have any opinions about it even if I knew all the magic about it. I always make sure I spread the word of what we invent and do...
  12. Achtung | Spitfire

    Binuscan cms server

    Binuscan CMS Server Binuscan CMS Server Dear Mr Mackenzie, I would be more than happy to get know how you have concluded that CMS Server has re-invented the GCR, invented just after World War II, like all the other so called "ink save" solutions? In fact CMS Server does not blindly limit or...

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