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Excellent, thank you Steve!

Does anyone have a typical BWR value for narrow web flexo? I know there are a number of variables, but is there a range in microns, inches or millimeters that is a ballpark figure? Thanks.

Eye One Share Eye One Share I have recently begun using the iShare software with a photospectrometer to evaluate color at press. Color has always been approved by a couple of pairs of eyes and a Pantone swatch. I ran into an instance recently where the Pantone Coated Library that comes with...

Proofing the plates is exactly what I'm looking for, I was hoping someone had a tried and true method. At this point I'm looking to find some sort of application tool (a very fine paint roller?) to test plates quickly and easily before getting to press. My other thought is a camera of some sort...

Does anyone have ideas for verifying the quality of a flexo plate? Specifically, I'm talking about plates which have been used and stored and are now being re-used. Quality problems are usually found while on press for these previously used plates, meaning that if there's a quality problem my...

The Nation’s Megaphone, the Television media that most of us rely upon to inform our opinions are overwhelmingly peopled with spin doctors whose primary job it seems is to make us all take sides and thereby suppress unity. We essentially become fans of the Red team or the Blue team. I couldn't...

The blame game The blame game This mess is a long way from "over" -- whatever that means. I have to laugh when I see folks attempting to place blame on Democrats or Republicans. Who's fault is this mess? I put it squarely on the electorate, the citizens, the dopey masses who allow Democrats...

A couple of small corrections on a proof is to be expected, the problem here is the customer isn't proofreading their work before submitting the file. The job should be proofread before supplying it to a printer. It could be they don't have a good way to print 36 pages and it's the first time...

Sounds to me like you you have two problems: 1. You need to come up with some standards for file submission. 2. You need to convince the folks who run your company that standards are a good and necessary thing to have. Here's where I would start: Go to your competitor's websites and find...

Your reply sent me searching for somewhere I could change the type of ink, and I found it. In the Spot Color database in the RIP I found an option where I could define the Type of ink, so I switched our dieline color from Normal to Transparent. So far, two files we previously had problems with...

We send Illustrator CS3 files to a RIPit system (OpenRIP Flexo 6.0) and output them to an Epson proofer, and also to a PDF. Once approved, the file gets dragged to a print queue for film output. We select "Do Not Print" for the dieline color so it doesn't output. This works great, except in...

Hello All Hello All My name is Neal, I've been in the industry 15+ years. I'm currently the prepress manager for a flexo printer in NH. I was the prepress manager for a medium sized offset & digital company in CA for several years before that. I'm joining this forum to use as a knowledge...