Slammer
Well-known member
“You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish you had."
With a little bit of ad-lib you could take this quote and say something like, oh I dunno:
"You go to customers with the tools you have, not the tools you might want or wish you had"
Recently I was at a customer who was complaining that the print run from his digital press was inconsistent.
I had a look, there was quite a bit of difference between the first print and the last print, also across the page. ∆E was off the chart;-)
The error seems to be with the machine, but how to prove it to the machines support hotline so at customers and on the fly.
I fired up the old gretag and set it to measure solid ink density, it did the trick and gave me a reading that I could use to prove it to the "our-machines-are-infallible" guys.
However the guys on the hotline had never heard of this method that seemed (at least to me) the logical thing to do.
I have done a bit of research on ballpark densities for solid ink or toner or pixiedust or whatever other gloop that gets used by digital printers and have drawn a blank, much to my surprise as I would have thought there would be something comparable to SID´s for offset.
With a little bit of ad-lib you could take this quote and say something like, oh I dunno:
"You go to customers with the tools you have, not the tools you might want or wish you had"
Recently I was at a customer who was complaining that the print run from his digital press was inconsistent.
I had a look, there was quite a bit of difference between the first print and the last print, also across the page. ∆E was off the chart;-)
The error seems to be with the machine, but how to prove it to the machines support hotline so at customers and on the fly.
I fired up the old gretag and set it to measure solid ink density, it did the trick and gave me a reading that I could use to prove it to the "our-machines-are-infallible" guys.
However the guys on the hotline had never heard of this method that seemed (at least to me) the logical thing to do.
I have done a bit of research on ballpark densities for solid ink or toner or pixiedust or whatever other gloop that gets used by digital printers and have drawn a blank, much to my surprise as I would have thought there would be something comparable to SID´s for offset.