Recent content by screenpixie

Why don't you consider bying an proper printer yourself? We've been working with an Epson 4900 with a built-in spectrometer for three years and seem to deliver good, repeatable quality. This way you can control your quality yourself. A lot of professional photographers work this way after going...

Hi Macmann, Deleting the process inks is not a good idea as Esko needs them to interprete the artwork correctly. I know it's a bit of a bore but I haven't found away yet to get rid of them. I guess, as long as those exclamation marks don't generate plates we're good. Recently we did a test to...

As a packaging printer, we typically print lots of repeat jobs. Jobs we have been printing and reprinting for a long time still have their original jobshape, which was elliptical. New jobs are typically printed with stochastic screen. Once the color management has been set up properly, we...

Thanks for your feedback. The reason for asking was that we will be using an off-line measuring device on our new press. Since we are using different dotshapes throughout our jobs, I was wondering if I should allways use the same dotshape in the control strip. Or should I use the same dotshape...

Hello everybody, I've been told that it's impossible to calculate dot gain, based upon readings from printed stochastic screens. Only AM-screens (round, elliptical, ...) should do the trick. I find that very hard to believe since tint values (and thus dot gain) are calculated using both a...

We have been generating PPF-files for nearly 10 years. While ripping the 1-bit TIFF files our RIP calculates PPF-files. As far as I know, these PPF-files are a generic set of data which have to be converted to a specific file type, depending on the brand and type of printing machine. Every brand...

Your TIFF's have probably been saved with a G4-compression. Photoshop doesn't understand this compression.