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  1. Polyprintgirl

    Flexo Screen Angle for Single Color

    We output our photopolymer plates using these flexo screen angles: C=22.5 M=82.5 Y=7.5 K=52.5 What is the best angle to use for a non-process (spot only) single-color screen? 45 degrees is what we used in offset, any recommendations? Is it best to stick with the black angle (52.5)? Second...
  2. Polyprintgirl

    Highlight dot dropoff poly

    Hi, wondering if anyone has any ideas how to prevent highlight dot "dropoff". We are running 1.5 mil polyethylene with .067" photopolymer plates w/.020" backing tape, with 120L screens. One jpg shows the dropoff on the printed poly, the other file shows the dgc applied to the job. We'd bumped...
  3. Polyprintgirl

    Dot gain in shadows (flexo)

    Any ideas on how to keep the shadows open outside of a press compensation curve? We're having trouble keeping our shadows open, they seem dull and muddy. We are currently applying a press curve; we output round dots; 150 line screens. Our screen angles are 7.5 YEL, 22.5 CY, 52.5 MAG and 82.5...
  4. Polyprintgirl

    X-rite 939 illuminate/observer settings

    We have an X-rite 939 spectrodensitometer that we use with X-rite ColorMaster software. We were set up with an initial 50/2 illuminate/observer setting (I inherited the color management portion of my job from 2 people that have since left the co.). This I can see in the ColorMaster software...
  5. Polyprintgirl

    Scheduling/Costing software

    We're looking into scheduling/costing software options for our pressroom and manufacturing operation. We run wide format flexo, we're printing poly for food packaging. We've received a price from EFI Logic, it is expensive. Is anyone using scheduling/costing software that they could recommend...
  6. Polyprintgirl

    Esko Deskpack 10.1 and DCS

    Anyone had any experience using Esko 10.1 with single DCS files out of Illustrator? We're going to upgrade to 10.1 (currently at v7). Usually I place the DCS file into AI and export as an EPF (Esko Prep File), but this feature will be gone once we upgrade. Any ideas or comments would be greatly...

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