Kodak Ink Eater Mark

[johnny_jay]

Anyone have any real world experience with this?

We have a project it may help us on and Kodak's help is vague.

Thanks in advance!

John

[born2print]

we make a bar in Preps, does that help?

[David]

for sheetfed presses we used what we called "take off" bars.
Generally about 1/4 " tall (could be taller if you have the room), and as wide as the entire printed image on the sheet.
It's just a rectangle filled with color. Fill it with whatever color is used the least to help remove excess ink.
We put these above or below the color bar on the sheet.


YMMV



hope this is what you're talking about

[David]

also this:

https://workflowhelp.kodak.com/display/PRIN81/Ink+eater+mark

[Joe]

We just created rectangles out on the ends of the plates. 50% all colors. Width depended on web size. The bigger the web size the smaller the width.

[born2print]

for sheetfed presses we used what we called "take off" bars.
Generally about 1/4 " tall (could be taller if you have the room), and as wide as the entire printed image on the sheet.
It's just a rectangle filled with color. Fill it with whatever color is used the least to help remove excess ink.
We put these above or below the color bar on the sheet.


YMMV



hope this is what you're talking about

yeah that. sometimes 1/2" tall. Usually 100% of the color.

[johnny_jay]

We normally add take off bars of various sizes when needed but we have a cover that runs weekly that is being problematic, wanted to try the Ink Eater. It is supposed to evaluate on coverage  and I wanted to see if it would help.

[born2print]

OH! I never thought of an automated way, good luck and please report back if you have any luck #interesting

[johnny_jay]

I will report back, swamped for a spell so not sure how long.

The kodak "help" says to place the variable on a pdf mark and place taht in preps - seems odd but I'll give it a go.

Thanks everyone for your time! I lurk way more than I post, lol.

[DigiCorn]

Is the Kodak user forum still around? I forget what it was called, but maybe some user hanging around can help out...

[scottrsimons]

Kodak forum is still around and it's called the GUA forums. https://mygua.vbulletin.net/index.php

[johnny_jay]

Great Point DigiCorn and Scott, I am a member there as well. 

Thanks!

John

[DigiCorn]

GUA - that's the one! I haven't been on there since 2016...

[Joe]

GUA - that's the one! I haven't been on there since 2016...

You probably haven't missed many posts.

[johnny_jay]

Had time to get the mark to work as I wanted. What threw me off was my own fault, needed to read the info better. I was working the start and end points off the sheet but it's off the plate.

Going to try it on the job that has been giving fits.Will adjust the min density and max saturation as needed.

I never did try the GUA, rather hang with the cool kids here.

Thanks!

John