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Below is a YouTube video (3:22m) I created in 2020 during Covid for my students at Erie Community College in Buffalo, NY. It shows how the width of a newspaper page is getting narrower over time, to reduce costs. The newspaper where I worked,'23-'26, has been sold and is now printed a 3 hour...

For educational/training purposes, can anyone (vendor/user) share how many impressions they are getting from their offset blanket before replacing? Instead of impressions, do you track time by dates? Do you track the reason for changing it (smash/ding/dent, cut line, embossed, print quality)? I...

Source is Bureau of Labor Statistics. The "Good Old Days" was prior to 2001.

In 1976, Steve Suffoletto (Buffalo, NY) became a freshman at Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.) in the College of Graphic Arts & Photography (GAP), in the School of Printing. There were about 700 students. Classes were 10 week-long tri-semesters. Below is a list for courses offered in...

Hello PrintPlanet, Do any of the paper people have any data they can share about this? Ra is a metric of surface finish and its unit is 1 micron (um).

Print Process: Flexo, wide web Substrate: White Poly film Ink: Solvent based (heatset) Anilox: 1,000 lpi BCM: 2.0 billion cubic microns % Dot Size (file): 1% Lpi: 133 Quality: Too much pressure (anilox>plate, plate>film) causing hollow center dots (donuts) with halo ring fringe...

Hello PrintPlanet, I was wondering if any of the heatset web offset printers can provide any stats on % web breaks? Using older Butler zero speed vertical festoon splicers. Better still, how long are you down before you restart saving and how many feet did that take? Most common basis weight is...

The world has options and choices! A good homework assignment for students is to fill out this table.

I'm sad to inform that Erie Community College (SUNY Erie) in Buffalo, NY has eliminated their Graphic Communications Technology program (2 year Associates Degree). For 15 years I taught their 3 levels of press lecture & labs. Prior to Covid, we had about 24 freshmen students. After Covid, we...

I want to show new printing students a list of other common names for SPOT color. Solid Fountain Special Custom Corporate Logo Brand Pantone PMS others.....? Order list?

Delta E'00 allows the weights for l:c:h to be customized. What setting/condition are you using?

Hi Industry, educator wanting to correctly inform students (terms & definitions) about different types of press ink metering systems, mostly for sheetfed offset litho. I know some webs, like coldset newspaper are ductorless. Specifically, would like to create a list showing how global ink sweep...

Hi Industry, just want to share with you a lab project we did in academia. Students printed a Duotone with dot-on-dot 45/45 angles, Moire with 45 & 50 angles, and Rosette with 45 & 65 angles. Used trigonometry to calculate screen angles, arctan(rise/run). Attached is a .doc with photos and a...

Regarding imposition layouts, are these 3 terms, on-out-up, synonyms? Can they be used interchangeably or do they have different meanings in different context? Steve Suffoletto

I'm developing content for a lecture for my Graphic Arts/Printing college students at Erie Community College near Buffalo, NY. Your feedback is welcome. Steve Suffoletto

Attached is a document (14 pg PDF) showing raw data analysis (Excel) and initial results from a simple test recently performed at Erie Community College (Buffalo, NY) School of Visual Communications and Technology and Graphic Arts Printing. It investigates the amount of solid black ink density...

Students proofing Pantone 14 base colors.