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With all due respect to gordo, I would say that most people see less dot gain as printing cleaner. Assuming your press is in reasonable condition, the paper is similar to the last print and you are printing the same linescreen, the difference is probably in the gain curve. You could experiment...

We have changed our house sheet from Frontier to Euro and I noticed when doing a press calibration that because the Euro is so blue (b=-4.8), that I was struggling to get a neutral gray(needed 10 point magenta cyan spread). Frontier was almost perfect with b=-0.8. Would anyone recommend using a...

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We use aspUpload from Persits Software. You will have to host it, but it only costs $200 one time. You can customize the upload fields and it has a progress bar. See Persits Software, Inc. - Powerful ASP & ASP.NET Components.

Wow - That little question generated a lot of opinions. We are a recently certified ISO 9001 printer. I'll share what I have used in prepress. It's not perfect but I think we have improved. 1. The worse person to try and find a mistake is the person who made it. Always have a second operator...

You'll have to test this, but I think the first item you put on the template is on top. This is how the pages work, so it's probably true for marks as well. ...Wayne

CutePDF CutePDF I've used CutePDF with lots of success. I even use it internally in some cases.

Negative Advantage Negative Advantage In a negative working plate workflow, the laser writes the image. This has a reliability advantage - if the laser misses writing a dot either from dirt on the plate or a laser malfunction, you get a tiny white spot in the middle of image area. This is...

Explaination for customers Explaination for customers Here is a PDF that we use to communicate this problem to customers when it happens.

Try just rasterizing the whole page in photoshop and then crop out the piece you need. Photoshop will RIP almost any PDF.

Try ColorPort Try ColorPort Try the ColorPort utility from X-Rite. It will create a standard linerization target (step wedge) that you can print from your device. Then you read the target and ColorPort will calculate the density of each patch and output a tab delimited text file with the...

Turn off PitStop CM Turn off PitStop CM Try turning off PitStop color management before you turn the images to grayscale. This has helped us with a similar situation. See attached file for dialog example.

We recently completed a process color job using Pantone Rhodamine Red instead of magenta. The Rhodamine was used to better match one of the spot colors that the client normally uses. In order to reproduce the photographs normally, we ran a press test with the Rhodamine and created a profile so...

Try Persits Try Persits Try our upload page at: www.tigerpress.com/upload/index.asp It's powered by a Persits Software product called Upload.asp. You could set it up to have a username/password login, but why ? ...Wayne

I have done this several times, but have never been able to use the 'Pullback' feature in Rampage. Instead I have to do the following which may be what you are already doing: 1. Make a mix of Black and 40% Magenta. Use this for the background 2. Set the halftone to be Magenta. Rampage will...