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Title: Ink Rotation?
Post by: G_Town on January 08, 2019, 12:07:01 PM
We are a sheetfed folding carton plant, we have an ink tech in and is question our rotation. What is everyone using?

We are running CMYK but he is saying 95% of plants run KCMY.

Thanks
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: Joe on January 08, 2019, 12:16:36 PM
We run CMYK for web and KCMY sheetfed.
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: zox on January 08, 2019, 01:39:11 PM
KCMY for both sheetfed and web here
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: scottrsimons on January 08, 2019, 01:44:02 PM
KCMY here for Sheetfed only. We do not have a Web.
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: Skryber on January 08, 2019, 02:27:45 PM
While I was in sheetfed offset we only ran KCMY. Same with the ex at a sheetfed carton shop.
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: DigiCorn on January 08, 2019, 03:26:21 PM
rotation? puff, puff, pass
puff, puff, pass
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: G_Town on January 08, 2019, 03:40:01 PM
Quote from: DigiCorn on January 08, 2019, 03:26:21 PMrotation? puff, puff, pass
puff, puff, pass

Well it was helpful till you chimed in.

Thanks all.

Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: mc hristel on January 08, 2019, 05:19:27 PM
As I understand it, you put the lighter colors (magenta/yellow) down last to minimize the amount of muddying from the darker colors as the sheet runs through the press.
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: pspdfppdfxhd on January 08, 2019, 06:45:39 PM
MCKY, but the quality of our work really sucks.
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: Tracy on January 09, 2019, 11:04:57 AM
your so funny! :laugh:
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: DigiCorn on January 10, 2019, 11:42:41 AM
Quote from: pspdfppdfxhd on January 08, 2019, 06:45:39 PMMCKY, but the quality of our work really sucks.
yeack... MuCKY
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: andyfest on January 10, 2019, 01:19:35 PM

Quote from: G_Town on January 08, 2019, 12:07:01 PMWe are a sheetfed folding carton plant, we have an ink tech in and is question our rotation. What is everyone using?

We are running CMYK but he is saying 95% of plants run KCMY.

Thanks
KCMY at the sheetfed folding carton hellhole that I used to work at. If metallics and/or spot colours were involved, they would always go down first with metallics always going down first i.e.: MET>SPOT>KCMY.
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: DigiCorn on January 10, 2019, 01:51:04 PM
The last shop I worked in with SF and Web, I have no idea how they were running. But prior to that, we ran KCMY-spot
Title: Re: Ink Rotation?
Post by: AaronH on January 16, 2019, 12:36:24 PM
We run KCMY+Spots here, (unless our press operator gets smart and runs yellow first, gosh then all of the colors look really weird - he couldn't figure out what was wrong). At my previous shop, a flexo shop, they ran lightest to darkest, since most of our flexo work wasn't CMYK it was mostly spot colors. When it was CMYK it was pretty much that order.