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Thank you Digital-sys for the reminder that one can create custom PPD files - been a long time since I had an apogee rip and I forgot that. I do remember now that when I tried, when experimenting, to change the PDF attributes too many times while fine tuning that they would not hold and had to...

I was cleaning up my documents file and found a folder of Agfa PPDs, including ones for the Avantra. I have attached it in hopes it can help you.

S.W.A.G. - scientific wild ass guess. Use it often in flexo profile smoothing

j4yt33 - Sorry for the late reply, I am kind of on vacation. The preflight profile was originally made in Acrobat Pro and then imported into Acrobat DC. I saved it from DC as I no longer have any previous versions of Acrobat on my computer. However I did find an older version of this profile...

Years ago when I ran a prepress department we created a list of items that we knew would be trouble on on Flexo presses and my preflight person would check the file for those items along with such things as missing fonts, low res images, etc. Any items that needed to be obtained from the...

Reminds me of that great bit called Luscious. Well worth the 2 1/2 or so minutes to watch. For those that have not seen it here is the url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxTaBD87z7o

Doctor calls a plumber on a saturday to fix a clogged toilet. Plumber fixes the problem in a hour and presents a $500 bill to doctor. Doctor says even he does not make that much money in an hour. Plumber says yes I know, I used to be doctor.

If you convert 100% cyan from a U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 color space to a GRACoL 2006 color space your 100% cyan will now contain 94% cyan, 0% magenta, 2% yellow and 0% black. The lab values will go from L 62, a -44, b -50 to L 59, a -39, b -47, which is, under CIE 1976, 5.38 dE off the Lab...

If you are printing to ISO 12647-2, then maybe a picture might help. I have attached a picture of the GRACoL 2006 profile, the smaller one, against the almost full gamut of an Epson 4880 or 4900 using orange and green inks. -Bill-

Good Luck Bill, if all goes as planned I will be following yours and WhartRat's lead in about 18 months. Started in this career later than most, spent time in the Air Force and learning how to build houses before I fell into the flexo industry - 36 years here will be enough. By the way WhartRat...

Remember that on a flexo press: 1. You are slinging ink out of small cells (anilox roller) and then scrapping the anilox with a doctor blade to help meter ink. 2. You then transfer that ink film onto a photopolymer (malleable) plate that is held on to a plate cylinder with a compressible tape...

All customers make me happy - some by staying; some by leaving

Since I started in the is business in 1981, I also agree that being a film stripper before converting the prepress to digital really was helpful. While I can think of many files that have challenged us, I prefer to state this: I "hate" artists that send me files I have to fix because of time...

Seems like an optimist to me. Kind of like the small kid that starting digging in the large pile of horse poop he was given as a gift, saying I know there has to be a pony some place under this pile.

My definition of most PDFs is "production delaying file"

Greetings, have you tried a different print cylinder? Have you checked the TIR of the cylinder? Have you check the bearings of the plate cylinder? Are the cylinders clean and not scored or damage in any way. While a lot of "earmarking" is because of gear backlash (I am making the guess that this...

Greetings, you can use the attached file to check a color in ColorThink grapher. Just open in excel, or any text editor, and replace the labxyz values with the values of your color, then add to Plot Items box in ColorThink grapher.

Greetings, before making suggestions, what have you done to try to fix this problem? A problem I would classify under gear marking.

Greetings, Could you please be more specific of the print package(s) that showed increased density. Semi gloss, BOPP, water base ink, UV ink, solvent ink???

Greetings Dan, Guess I am feeling a bit vulnerable today, cause I have to take a bit of exception to your comment. I have been involved in preparing labels (flexo) in a digital form since 1991. Illustrator 3.3 was definitely better at preparing art at that time then the two page layout programs...