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97. The best change I remember was going from 13" film to 26" film

Tue Nov 19, 2024, 01:15 PM

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I've always worked in the electronic workflow. When I started we had an Agfa SelectSet 5000 imagesetter (Agfa bought Compugraphic decades ago, and the film cassettes we owned for this machine had "Compugraphic" logos) that we could run either single sheets or two-page spreads on. When we bought a six-color press we also bought a Scitex Dolev 4press imagesetter that would run four-page impositions...for our 28" presses one sheet of film covered a whole plate, on the 40" presses we stripped two sheets into one flat.

The best part about Scitex is you could change the screen angles and dot shape for each color right from the RIP, and of course we did. Turns out offsetting the black and yellow dots from their standard angles by about a degree and a half gives you a way better looking print. They also have a KILLER vacuum system on this thing; it's internal-drum and sheet-to-sheet consistency on it is unreal.

The worst part is Scitex equipment is EXTREMELY fussy about humidity - which you wouldn't expect from equipment built in the desert. For some reason all Israeli-made graphic arts equipment is nit-picky about humidity. I've got an Indigo press on my floor right now, and if the RH drops below 50 percent it quits working.

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