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Pantone Bridge and Euro version Pantone Bridge and Euro version Don't forget that the Bridge coated Guide is available in 2 different versions. The regular one (used outside Europe) and the Bridge Guide Euro (to be sold in Europe). Both are produced under different printing conditions. The...

Re: Is it metamerism, or constancy? Michael Jahn wrote: GCR has nothing to do with overcoming metamerism. When a designer builds objects with 400% density (100% of all 4 CMYK process colors) systems like Alwan can convert these into something more press friendly. Some people report ink...

Re: GRACoL Dot Gain Worksheet Don, new business? Sounds interesting. Are you already able to give more details on the type of business you seem to plan? Regards, Henk

Re: Overs/unders: what's the customary percentage now? Some Nordic printers use the following conditions. The maximum percentage is 8 percent for runs up to 20.000 copies and a maximum of 800 sheets. And 4 percent of a run of up to 20.000 with a maximum of 1.000 copies and a 2 percent for runs...

Re: Heidelberg Anicolour (???) The ink producers can make more colors for this application. However, due to the temperature sensitivity a certain minimum amount of ink has to be produced. I assume that for corporate spotcolors one can order large amounts of ink. As soon as more temperature...

Re: Heidelberg Anicolour (???) Scaling up a waterless ink system seems less difficult than a Anicolor system, I was told. You already mentioned that KBA now uses only waterless plates for this wide press application. Henk

Re: Heidelberg Anicolour (???) Peter, on the Heidelberg web site is a report on the SM 52 5-color machine at a Swiss printing plant. The 5-th color is just for spot colors. The SM 52 differs from Karat and other Anilox Waterless offset machines. The Anicolor inks and plates are regular...

Re: German Presses and Fogra Pat, Fogra did a lot of research on supplies. They have a huge library of research documents and suggestions to improve the printing process. Some of them are free, some reports are sold. Some are in the German language, some are translated in English. They also...

Re: Pantone 2.0 and ISO print standards Today, I did get information from Pantone that the modified software (MyPantonePalettes) will be released early February. The problem of the identical presentation of aRGB and sRGB will be solved, they said. HTML values will be based on sRGB (D65) and...

Re: Quality control checks and balances question Approvinator [seems a mix of approver and terminator! :-)] is the official decision point in a JDF workflow. The tasks are described in detail and the decision process is subdivided in several blocks. As soon as the new workflows based on the...

Re: Quality control checks and balances question Hi Peter, You call your production guy "Gatekeeper". What about the "Approvinator"? It's part of the description of the latest JDF version. An important role in any printing plant where quality is essential. Henk

Re: G7 (and GCR) Re: G7 (and GCR) Terry, You state that you modified the actual Gracol profiles to maximum GCR. At what Cyan level starts K? Or at what L level? Your observation (best results with max GCR) is identical to our. GCR is, in my opinion, a very important part of our system to...

Re: Pantone 2.0 and ISO print standards Don, that's funny. My version (Windows) did not work. Pantone Europe confirmed some software problems and promised to send me the proper version. However they confirmed by e-mail (several times) that the proper software for Windows was not yet available...

Re: Pantone 2.0 and ISO print standards Don, Today I got information (from Pantone) that the myPantone Pallette software for Goe is not yet available. So decent testing is not yet possible. Regarding the color patches and the facilities of a spectro: You can do that. Most designers however...

Re: Pantone 2.0 and ISO print standards Of course, you can measure the color chips provided by your customer. That's just one of the ways to transform a color to CMYK. However, for the communication on color between creative (less technical) people, it's important to use a color notation...