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[Aaron]

yeah, do the same here. Gotta love technology.

[Farabomb]

Keeps the pressman out of the plate room with their "something must be wrong with the processor" comments.

I normally just use a baseball bat. We've had issues with magenta plates but the pressmen insist it's not the press.  :rolleyes:

[frailer]

Thanks G. Am already nutting out a similar setup. Turns out that it was about 30% drift, on our part, maybe. But their press conditions have changed. Their densities were out/too high. Colour guy added Characterisation Curves on top of EuroscaleV2. K,Y big problems. But I see it as us making adjustments for them. They think, (I'm sure), that we had a problem. Waste of time trying to discuss it. The usual.

From now on, the X-Rite cop is on duty.   :police:    :laugh:

Sheesh...better clarify. Wasn't awake when I posted that. By 30% drift, I meant %age of responsibility. The other 70% was dot gain/density etc. on the press, IMO. They (printers) just don't get the sequence. Once you've calibrated output on setter, then tested for dot gain. Then adjusted back...the rest is stock, press conditions, ink densities, blankets...the list goes on. These are not prepress-controlled issues. Try suggesting that. Kangaroo-in-the-headlights look...
How times have changed too. 15~20 years ago, we used to get bureau film through the door, along with Chromalins. Handful of ads, to be bench-planned in. Accompanying proofs. To a degree it was a game of pass-the-parcel, where the music never stopped. Now, we own this stuff. I'm not so sure I like "ownership"...   :laugh: