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Started by G_Town, January 08, 2019, 12:07:01 PM

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G_Town

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

Joe

We run CMYK for web and KCMY sheetfed.
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zox

KCMY for both sheetfed and web here

scottrsimons

KCMY here for Sheetfed only. We do not have a Web.
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Skryber

While I was in sheetfed offset we only ran KCMY. Same with the ex at a sheetfed carton shop.
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DigiCorn

rotation? puff, puff, pass
puff, puff, pass
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G_Town

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.


mc hristel

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.

pspdfppdfxhd

MCKY, but the quality of our work really sucks.

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DigiCorn

Quote from: pspdfppdfxhd on January 08, 2019, 06:45:39 PMMCKY, but the quality of our work really sucks.
yeack... MuCKY
"There's been a lot of research recently on how hard it is to dislodge an impression once it's been implanted in someone's mind. (This is why political attack ads don't have to be true to be effective. The other side can point out their inaccuracies, but the voter's mind privileges the memory of the original accusation, which was juicier than any counterargument ever could be.)"
― Johnny Carson

"Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it."
– Nikki Sixx

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
― Ernest Hemingway

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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.
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DigiCorn

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
"There's been a lot of research recently on how hard it is to dislodge an impression once it's been implanted in someone's mind. (This is why political attack ads don't have to be true to be effective. The other side can point out their inaccuracies, but the voter's mind privileges the memory of the original accusation, which was juicier than any counterargument ever could be.)"
― Johnny Carson

"Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it."
– Nikki Sixx

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
― Ernest Hemingway

AaronH

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.
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