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I don’t understand the logic behind your arguments here. ”If you cannot fix it in house don’t measure it?” Please explain what you suggest for option D.

Scenario: Something has changed, and it's affecting the exposure of the plates. Your plate verification measurements have deviated from the set tolerances. What do you do? A. Stop all production until the CTP vendor has a technician at your site. B. Send faulty plates to the printer and keep...

I understand the points raised in this discussion. Given the reasons mentioned, I agree that it's possible to skip the CTP linearization step. However, if you choose to do so, it's even more critical to establish and document the specific characteristics of your CTP. This documentation serves as...

The advantage of plate linearization is that it simplifies the process of identifying potential sources of deviation when inconsistencies occur. Without clear evidence that the plates are stable and well-controlled, it’s easy for a press operator to blame the plates instead of taking...

This would be my advice - step-by-step: 1. Linearize your CTP (so that a 50 % patch in your file reads 50 % on the plate): a. Expose a step wedge and measure the plate. b. From this, generate your CTP linearization curve that you assign to your RIP. 2. Run a print-control form: a. Print a...

Could you please share a link to the PDF and the InDesign package? Having access to the files would make it much easier to identify the issue. Without them, any troubleshooting would be purely speculative.

Interestingly, we have arrived at the same conclusions on many aspects. Regarding our choice of sRGB as a fallback, our reasoning is as follows: A customer who "messes up" and submits untagged RGB images is likely not working with high-end print products. In such cases, it's more probable that...

Great input Glenn! Yes, "correctly" is indeed quite vague. As you say different printers handle these aspects in different ways. Here’s how we manage them at the moment: • We discard the CMYK output intent of incoming files and assign our "house CMYK" (Fogra51 with a proprietary perceptual...

Hi there early adopter! Why are you preflighting against PDF/X-6? I don't even think you can export a PDF/X-6 file from Indesign yet and I pretty sure no printers have adopted the standard yet.

ECO3 Apogee (formerly AGFA) also employs the technique mentioned above, referring to it as 'SolidTune'. Additionally, ECO3 offers 'InkTune' (integrated RIP GCR) and 'Spir@l Screening' as part of their Ink Save umbrella. We use InkTune for most of our offset printing and it's both reducing...

It's a licensed file that need to be bought from Fogra.

Since we stopped providing CMYK profiles to our customers and simplified our PDF instructions to the absolute essentials, we've seen a significant decrease in color complaints. Many customers today are not deeply familiar with print production and often find CMYK concepts challenging to grasp...

There is often a discrepancy between what software can do and what users choose to do with it.

Hi! I'm curious about how you folks handle PDFs these days, so I put together this quick poll:

It's difficult to provide effective advice without the full context. Even one simple checkbox or setting might alter the outcome. While "using offset profile input and HP press profile output" sounds correct, it doesn't clarify how the conversion is performed or whether the "HP press profile"...

Customer be like "This image is too warm, we need more yellow and red"

What types of presses are we discussing here? Are they all offset machines? If you're referring to offset presses, you can work with a single CMYK profile. However, it's essential to align the presses using TVI or G7 curves in the RIP. This involves conducting test prints on each press...

If you have the i1 Profiler software you can use it to validate the MediaWedge to any standard, under the Printer > Quality option,

What instrument are you planning to use?

We have serveral RIPs and DFEs and our take on this is the following: First off, we make sure your DFE/RIPs can handle PDF/X-4 with the GWGPDF/X-4 Output Suite, as Andrew suggested. Also make sure the color settings in the DFE/RIPs are aligned to produce the same results. This is a simplified...