Coldset Web Digital Plate Press Performance

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This document provides a discussion of the factors that influence performance of digitally-imaged presensitized metal (aluminum) plates on coldset web offset presses. Read more...

Matchprint Virtual Proof: Technical White Paper

This white paper describes the characteristics and system level requirements to achieve accurate remote viewing of subtractive CMYK images on additive RGB displays. When implemented successfully, this process is called virtual proofing.
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Pantone Hexachrome Workflows for Kodak Approval XP/XP4 Proofing Systems

This document is for users who are familiar with 4/C process prepress workflows and the Kodak Approval System (including various RIP options), and want to learn more about PANTONE Hexachrome workflows. It describes how to create and print Hexachrome files, and recommends which workflows to use for printing to a Kodak Approval System distributed exclusively by Kodak Polychrome Graphics.
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Digital Plates and CtP Performance

The following discussion is a brief overview of some of the key plate characteristics and how they interact to facilitate digital platemaking, thus impacting the quality of the digital plate material. While these observations are applicable to all CtP plate materials, they are particularly true in the case of thermal plates; the use of which has grown dramatically worldwide and are the preferred choice for high-quality lithographic reproduction.
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Monitor Viewing Conditions

The new version of ISO 3664-Viewing Conditions for Graphic Technology and Photography contains specifications for the viewing of a monitor independent of any form of hard copy. Thus, these specifications can be seen as primarily relevant where successive viewing of hard copy and soft copy takes place.
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Kodak Premier Hard Dot Films

In 1999, Kodak Polychrome Graphics conducted an extensive survey of customer wants and needs in regard to the performance characteristics of imagesetting and contacting film. Based on the results of that survey the Eastman Kodak Research and Development team made a number of changes in the company's Hard Dot technology to improve the films sold by Kodak Polychrome Graphics. These improvements have now been incorporated into a new Hard Dot product line, Kodak Premier Recording Films.
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The Value of Digital Halftone Proofing

With the onslaught of digital technologies and the precipitous drop in the cost per computation, the impact on electronic imaging for prepress is staggering. The drive to find totally digital solutions is fueled by the desire to step on to the digital cost curves in which the cost per computation is still dropping by approximately 50% every 18 months.
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Color Management - February 2002

Although the theory and many of the tools of color management are somewhat complex, the concept itself is straightforward. Color management in its broadest sense is a system of automating and controlling the transformation of a color image from one color space to another, with the goal of maximizing color accuracy and consistency throughout the production process.
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A Smarter Faster Way from Computer to Film

Graphics film using silver halide technology has been around for a long time. The reasons are clear for all to see.
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Essential Characteristics for Rapid Access and Hard Dot Graphic Films

Graphics films are essentially digital, they determine for the subsequent printing process where ink will “print” or “not print”. The essential requirements for film are therefore that it clearly defines image and non-image areas.
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