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    Landa Digital Printing to lay off over 100 employees

    Now Landa is filing for court protection. https://www.printweek.com/content/news/landa-files-for-court-protection
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    Valued Empoyees

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    Overtime: Poop paper

    Paper made from poop - a most unusual and environmentally friendly source Plant fibers (typically from trees) are the usual base material used in making pulp for paper production. However those plant fibers don't have to come unprocessed directly from the plant. The fibers can actually be...
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    The GEC Standard

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    Overtime: The eternal conflict - ink/water balance - the tale of the tones

    An AM/XM halftone screen has a built-in conflicting ink/water balance requirement on press. The highlight dot and quarter tone range from 1-35% requires minimal water and maximum ink in order to prevent those dots from being washed away. The three-quarter tone range from 65-99% requires the...
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    Can anyone convert this file for me... I think it's a quark file but not sure.

    Try this site on the original file - not the one that has had a PDF extension added: https://filext.com/online-file-viewer.html There are other online file openers - maybe one will work for you. You could also reach out to Quark users here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/quarkxpress/...
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    Management

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    Overtime: What the press operator is checking

    It's the stereotypical image of a press operator - bent over the presswork and examining it under a loupe. People attending a press approval often wonder what the press operator is examining so closely. In fact there's a great deal of information that the press operator can determine from a...
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    Vendor Advice

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    Overtime: Looking back: The "Chromocritic"

    I think that Chromocritic use had died out by the 90s.
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    Overtime: Why use halftone screen angles?

    Go back in the history of halftoning and you'll discover that for multi-color presswork the halftone screens were always angled relative to one another. Why not just have all the screens at the same angle and be done with it? Well, when halftone dots are at the same frequency and angle then they...
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    Job classifications

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    Overtime: Looking back: The "Chromocritic"

    I think it was probably most used in ad agencies and shops that catered to them. Perhaps that was not the market you were exposed to?
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    Overtime: Looking back: The "Chromocritic"

    Although color films were manufactured for standard conditions of exposure, all the careful work of the photographer and manufacturer may be negated if a transparency, or any color picture for that matter, is viewed under improper lighting conditions. Today, most people in the graphic arts are...
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    Job Types

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    150lpi vs 175 lpi

    Without knowing your specific print condition, I think that only general info can be given. This press is running 20 micron FM on grey board for packaging: But that doesn't mean that you are able to. Can you run a test?
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    150lpi vs 175 lpi

    KimR wrote: "It is a myth to have images at 300 PPI or what people claim 300 DPI which is incorrect. Images should be double of what the lpi is." Gordo: Image dpi/ppi can have a resolution anywhere from equal to to double the lpi. e.g. for a 150 lpi screen the range can be from 150 dpi to 300...
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    Overtime: To linearize your CtP plates or not?

    I guess I wasn't clear in my post. The bootom line is that a plate curve to linearize the plate before applying a press curve is an unnecessary waste of time.
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    Overtime: Printers and Ink - wherever you go, there you are!

    Printers Alley, Nashville, Tennessee, United States Ink Street, Carletonville, Gauteng, South Africa Printers Alley, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States Ink Wells Drive, San Antonio, Texas, United States Printers Place, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Ink Road, Iowa, United...
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    Dealing with the CSR

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