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I am looking into soft proofing for practical appraisal purposes on a print shop floor. I've been doing a little looking around, and we already have some basic software/hardware (i.e. i1 Pro and i1 Match), but I really want to get a feel for how effective it is and what sort of monitors/setup...

Question: Anyone have experience printing with neutral pH fount (6.5-8.5 range) while running a web offset with heatset ink? What are your observations? Does it work well? Better than acidic fount? What sort of problems do you hit? Also, if anyone just has some general thoughts on the...

Want to get feedback on the appearance of these solid laydowns. The pictures are taken at 50X magnfication of ink printed on MFC quailty paper. This is consitent on different presses, at different speeds. Sheetfed and web (more pronounced the higher speed you go). Different inks, different...

Ok colour management gurus - I'm feeling particularly ignorant today. My plant is seeking to run to match ISO 12647. I've been noticing that I can never quite achieve my colour gamut needed for paper type we run (although our matches to proof are really decent). Then I looked more closely at...

I apologize if this question displays a woeful lack of understanding or regard for colour management, but... Have a hard time at my plant making people realize that it is literaly impossible for us to perfectly match our proof because of paper white variations (currently we run the ISO...

My plant is looking into some new plates. In some discussions with our supplier he suggested that we do a fresh chemical audit and do some "drop tests" on our plates (drop some chemical on an unimaged plate and see the result on the emulsion to check if any of our chemicals are uncompatible...

I may regret this, but... I work as a press operator and want to work very closely with prepress for the best troubleshooting and results possible. Obviously in most plants, the relationship between prepress and pressroom has been 'strained' to say the least. So, to all you prepress workers...

At my plant we have been dealing with a problem for months now that I am banging my head against a wall with. We get a RIDICULOUS amount of water back tracking into our cyan ink fountain. We use ductorless ink train (MAN Lithoman design), and have had no problems with any other ink. I have...