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Yup - university programming on punch cards. The university had so much data storage that they rented out space for large local businesses. They had so much storage - "more than you will ever need". They had a limitless 16 gig of memory". PS - and whenever you told someone about this, you always...

I began working in Prepress before we had employee numbers. :-)

With all due respect Gordo, I hear what you are saying. I also understand that your responses are always based on a good press run. Yes the shape of the dot alone will not produce more/less problems. Each one works fine. However, from our experience we found that one will be more forgiving than...

I agree, paper cuts hurt and burn more than many other types. However, in my experience, the film cuts (from the photolithography days) were several times worse than a paper cut. We always assumed it was the chemicals on the film. They also seemed to take longer to heal than a simple scratch...

Gordo: The older Monaco Profiler (4.7.2) allows you to do this simply by setting your "Maximum black ink available for" to zero. I guess this is only a "cheap" solution if you already have the program.

@cornishpastythighs I'm not talking about ink consumption throughout the run. I'm talking about the amount of ink to fill the fountain/pan in the first place. If we have a short run with a minimal print area, why should we mix/purchase a large amount of ink just to fill the tray and dump it...

Sometimes we use ink dams on our litho presses to reduce the amount of ink needed when printing just a small portion of the sheet. Can the same be done on a flexo press? (Reduce the width of the ink pan to about 4 or 5 inches so we require less ink to print a small logo on only a small portion...

Edit Black Point Edit Black Point Mr. Chopra I have the exact same cahllenge. The last time you posted was back in 2011. Did you ever find a way to edit the black point of a profile?

Digital dots Digital dots In the early days of digital prepress a tour guide came through and announced that "you can even see the half-tone dots as he grabs a loupe and leans over to the monitor ..."

jstotz - check your profiling software and see if it will allow you to edit the uncoated press profile you have made. Programs like MonacoProfiler will allow you to make edits including applying a curve to any/all channels. You can even apply this edit to the Inverse, Forward or both tables...

I’m looking to do some basic sheet analysis using an eye-One. The idea is to design a custom colour bar (short and simple) then read it with an eye-One to glean the basic density and Lab values of the primaries and traps. I seem to be doing this so often with my single shot spectro (XRite 939)...

Matte Lam Sim Matte Lam Sim Okay, summarizing the results of my testing yesterday would be that using an ICC profile (made from a matte laminated press sheet) will help simulate the colour shift that occurs from laminating. However one still has to deal with the sheen of the proof. Matte...

Predicting Matte Lam results Predicting Matte Lam results Lukas mentions trying to create a print profile that defines the final matte laminated print results. Was that successful? Was it helpful? Others like oldschool and PAI (Tony) allude to the many variables that could come into play...

Thanks gentlemen for your replies. Lukas – in general I hear you asking “have you tried…” Trial-and-error testing is the only thing I am able to do. I am unable to look “under the hood” of this profile. (to borrow Steve Upton’s terminology) Meddington – Do you think this is a bug in the...

Grayscale profile – Black Ink GRACoL2006_Coated1v2 Yes Matt, as you expected, I am familiar with the Photoshop feature that allows one to make a grayscale profile from a given CMYK profile. However, what I find is that #3 does not work as I expect. Regardless of what my default rendering intent...

Can someone please make available a GOOD grayscale profile that reflects the TVI of GRACoL2006_Coated1v2? By “good” I mean it should meet the following criteria: 1. The same TVI as the black channel of GRACoL2006_Coated1v2. (Not simply Photoshop’s “20% Dot Gain”.) 2. When selected in Photoshop...

Chasing for an answer Chasing for an answer Thanks for your responses all. Like you all, I could profile the device with an offline spectro but my results appear to be good. We want to use the inline spectros for checking and certifying each proof. Right now the proofs are passing...

I am dissatisfied with the values I get from the inline spectro on our Epson 9900s and have not been able to get a logical explanation for these errant values. We have two new Epson 9900's with inline spectros. We use a proofing paper designed to conform to GRACoL's specified paper white...

Gordo "increase GCR significantly", "reduce ink usage by about 15%" - are your comments relative to GRACoL separated files? I have run tests with a few of the solutions you allude to, set to maximum ink savings and can achieve a mere 3 or 4% reduction. Would you agree that the greatest ink...