How do you adjust a quality work?

[Jose Martinez]

How many sheets do you need to achieve a quality print, and what's your procedure? For example, I use three stacks of swatches, printing about 100 swatches and 20 sheets of the print on each stack until I get the right color.

Thanks

 

[SteveSuffRIT]

The amount of effort (time & materials) to get a press-to-proof color match depends on the sophistication of press technology. Most printers don't buy a press because it prints faster (22K sph), it's because they can reduce the make-ready (MR) time shorter.
CMS = Color Management System (~G7).

 

[SteveSuffRIT]

You don't need 20 clean sheets for sampling, probably just 3.
Between pulls, do you let the press idle on slow speed or do you stop it completely?

 

[SteveSuffRIT]

I just noticed your related post "Consistent Color" from Sept 21, 2024.

 

[Jose Martinez]

Perhaps the question is poorly worded. What is your procedure for printing a quality job with color proofs using CIP 4 + Expresso 4 technology from Teckhon and a Teckhon measuring instrument? How many defective sheets and how many good sheets? How many groups of defective sheets? When do you decide to start printing sheets?...

 

[Jose Martinez]

You don't need 20 clean sheets for sampling, probably just 3.
Between pulls, do you let the press idle on slow speed or do you stop it completely?

I leave it idling