Recent content by deaner

Kodak Preps has such an algorithm for that use case. The UI for optimizing your gang run is a bit confusing, but once you get the hang of it, it works well.

As a user of Phoenix (which Tilia Labs recently sold to Esko), I can attest to its quality. Very capable for folding carton work. One thing I love about it is how fast it can generate PDF output from an imposed layout (which was a pleasant surprise for me, coming from a background in Kodak...

Imagine a raster image (CMYK) with a very hard edge where the image meets the transparent background. Then imagine placing that on top of a spot-color blue background in Adobe Illustrator or InDesign. It looks fine on screen of course. But on press, you'll inevitably get misregistration and have...

Washington island off the coast of door county in Wisconsin?

A 32-page tabloid, even if it’s entirely CMYK, is only 64 plates a week. At 5 minutes a plate, that’s a little over 5 hours of usage per week. Seems like you might be better off partnering with a nearby company (a trade shop or commercial printer or whatever) to get your plates made. Unless, of...

Quit complaining. If customer files always arrived press-ready, you could literally be replaced by a hot folder. If you don’t welcome the technical and political challenges involved with working cooperatively with your customers, why are you even in this line of work?

These guys have tons of templates too, and you pay just a few bucks per design... https://easypackmaker.com/

I think Nekoosa can help you out. I believe they bought the Magnecote production and marketing from Meadwestvaco some years ago. https://nekoosa.com/products/magnecote

Not sure what you mean by "linearization in the RIP" and "total ink". I'm guessing you're talking about tone curves and GCR? In my shop, I allow the RIP to apply a tone-curve for the press, but that's it. Any UCR/GCR is handled upfront in Adobe Photoshop. I know some people might view my CMYK...

In my experience, if the target color space is CMYK, you'll get the most predictable results converting upfront to CMYK before RIPping, and just turn off color management on the RIP. Then you can be assured that what you see in your upfront apps (PS, AI, ID, etc.) is what you're going to get on...

You also might check out these guys... https://www.pressprofiler.com Creates CIP data directly from the TIFF output of your Harlequin (no need for the CIP plugin) and converts to Heidelberg's proprietary format for press. Not as cheap a solution as PressPerCent, but a heck of a lot cheaper...