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Art, Wow... I'm going to give you some advice right off the bat that I know from years of experience you won't take, but it is the best advice you can get and in the end it would prove out to be the cheapest route you can take, and that advice is: Hire me to come set this up for you. It's...

Just who is making this claim? And in what condition is the machine when it's achieving this result? The thing is, as you asked the question, it's impossible to answer. Let's just go back to the basic rule that RIP's convert pixels into dots using information given to them by profiles. So a...

phapp Sports Car Club of America? Yeah, I've heard of them... Oh, wait. Actually, no, I'd never heard of that process. I did some searching and reading though, and I imagine the reason I'd never heard of it is that I stay pretty much in large format inkjet. From the sound of it, that sounds...

moso, As you describe it, no. This isn't normal. Most flatbed machines can unclog nozzles with just a wipe-down and a purge. Questions I'd have: What model of Vanguard have you got, and do you know what printheads it's using? Also how often do you have to do this routine? More than daily...

Gordo, You are absolutely right. I used the word "densities" inadvisedly. The proper term might more be "value" or "L*a*b* value." Or just "the same color as is the primary value in the color space you wish to use this file as calibration for." You and my wife would get along famously. Mike

Pauly, No. It does not mean that. That's the problem. Think of making a profile. First you have variable elements which you have to define, and among them are your actual primary color values, your actual densities of each colorant, and your total of all colors. In addition, of course, you...

Which can be quite an assumption, given that they mint out those new "experts" in exactly three days.

Bobk, It really depends. What G7 is -- and all it is -- is a calibration procedure. Initially, it was developed for offset lithography, because it had been a bedevilment in that industry prior to computer-to-plate that there was no way to anticipate neutral tone curves on analog-generated...

To darken colors, turn the ink fountain keys out. To lighten colors, turn the ink fountain keys in. My work here is done. Mike Adams Correct Color

Understood. Actually, I'd always assumed they could do that. Still, in most cases -- there are exceptions to every rule -- I just don't think print and cut pays off. Mike

That's fine, but the point is that by the time you've taken it off the machine to laminate it, you're going to have to reload it on something. Not having to reload at all and space-savings are the only reasons to even consider a print-and-cut machine. The down-side is that you're committing...

Man, that's well thought out. Get the Roland. For Versaworks. You asked about the two RIP softwares, and between Versaworks and Rasterlink there just isn't a comparison. Of course they're both give-away RIP's, so they're not real robust, but Versaworks is surprisingly well designed and...

If I might ask... Why these two? What exactly are you going to be doing with them, and do you have any previous large format experience? I don't own one of either machine, but I've seen and worked with and set-up and profiled plenty of both of them; just about every model and size and inkset...

Just as a couple notes of caution there: Most printers I've worked with have found that feature to not be all that beneficial. Mostly because it turns out that a good percentage of what they contour cut needs to be laminated first anyway, kind of defeating the purpose of that capability, but...

Every top-line full-function RIP manufacturer has somewhere within it a capability to measure and report ink consumption. So you have that available to you provided you use a top-line RIP (ONYX, Caldera, Fiery, etc.) to run whatever printer(s) you buy. Some don't have a choice not to use a...

Myself, I wouldn't ask Signs101 anything. I'd also be pretty leery of making any decisions that affect the future of my business based on asking questions on the Internet. The problem is, in the case of a question like this, people are going to answer to reinforce their own decisions. How many...

Well, you got me curious. I can't say for 100% certain that this is incorrect. I really tend to doubt it because if it was true, then it would follow that the doubled-dot resolutions would print at half speed. I've never seen that. Also if I'm following you, that would mean that the larger...

I do color management and print process control for large and grand format printers. My company is Correct Color. I've been at this for 15 years, and in that time I've seen every combination there is of RIP's printers, media, etc. I've also helped numerous companies in situations just such as...

So you're expanding from small-format to large-format? If so, I can help. A lot.

Well, no... That was a joke. Actually, I go into this very subject at 14:20 in Part Two of Correct Color Management: The Movie. However... To start: Sure it is. Dots per inch means dots per inch, and that's precisely what it translates out to, since only at 100% coverage is a printhead only...