Struggling with printing pleasing highlights? Using these tips, your highlight issues can fade to zero! Prepress & Software Your press can only print as good as the artwork it’s given, so it’s only fitting that prepress plays a key role in improving highlight quality. While there are some tricks to provide an illusion of smooth … Read More...
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The Problem Even when it seems you are doing everything you normally do during the platemaking process, sometimes defects surface in the UPC area. In order to avoid rejection by the customer or even fines that may be incurred at the retail location, it is critical that UPC's are reproduced at the highest level of … Read More...
We are often asked for the formulas to determine plate distortions. Below are these formulas. The plate cylinder repeat must be known for both distortion formulas. If the K-Factor is known than you can determine both the distorted repeat and the distortion percentage. The distorted repeat is simply the plate cylinder repeat minus the K-Factor. … Read More...