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Re: UV printing vs. conventional printing Actually UV printing typically results in higher dotgains than conventional printing. As long as you are compensating for the additional dotgain in pre-press the results should be comparable. Most guys who are experienced running UV would never go back...

Re: Web Growth Question The best way to minimize web growth (signature growth) is to run the lowest possible temperature in your ovens, while still drying the ink. What is happening is the paper is absorbing moisture after the book is bound. The more heat you apply to the web during the...

Re: horizontal banding It could be a starvation issue. You are getting light heavy light heavy effect from running too low a sweep setting on your ink fountain roller. Try turning up the sweep. Are you running your dampening system integrated or non-integrated?

Re: Web Growth Question Are you referring to the growth that occurs after the book is bound? If so that is simply caused by the fact that the paper is absorbing moisture that is lost when the web goes through the oven.

Re: Super Hot Cyan If the press is printing with too high a density the plates have nothing to do with it. It's a press problem, not a pre-press problem. Several possible explanations have been offered. Density is strictly a function of ink film thickness, it has nothing to do with pre-press...

Re: Standard ink densities? Optimum density for ink is determined by measuring the amount of contrast obtained in the 3/4 tone. When you are printing to maximum contrast you will have the highest obtainable color saturation for the color without plugging the half-tones. This will give you the...

Re: Sword Excel Plate has lines in non-image area that print.... The symptoms you are describing indicate a lack of energy being transferred to the plate by the laser. We found that running a power sweep on the platesetter every month and adjusting as necessary totally eliminated this problem...

Re: Gracol G7 - SWOP Gracol7 as mentioned is a printing standard for sheetfed printing on #1 paper. SWOP as mentioned is a printing standard for web printing on #5 & #3 papers. A SWOP proof does meet the requirement for G7 (not Gracol 7) gray balanced proofing. Either standard is fairly...