Converting Magazine

Prepress Solutions

• Who are the leading packaging premedia providers?
  Lisa Cross, Senior Editor, Graphic Arts Monthly, 09/01/2007
  Having outgrown the restrictions of “prepress” services alone, today’s premedia industry has transformed itself. Still formally known by the US Dept. of Commerce as “Prepress Services, North American Industrial Classification 323122,” players in this expanding market are branching into all things that precede print and printed packaging or any visual medium. More
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  Jonathan Agger, Consulting Technical Editor, 10/01/2006
  The path to color nirvana is not an easy one. Last month I talked about the benefits to extended color gamut printing, as well as the precautions when considering the investment in this technology. When I recommend investigating expanded gamut printing, here is a step-by-step outline to move forward. More
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  Jonathan Agger, Consulting Technical Editor, 617/547-5666, jagger@karstedt.com, 09/01/2006
  Today’s market pressures are pushing consumer-product companies (CPCs) and their suppliers to consider every possible opportunity for competitive advantages in time-to-market, shelf impact and cost savings. Extended (or expanded) color gamut printing warrants a first or perhaps a second look. Every converter understands the practical limitations of printing with a conventional four-color... More
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  Jonathan Agger, Consulting Technical Editor, 06/01/2006
  Digital color proofing comes in four flavors: press proofs, halftone proofs (once known as off-press proofs), contone (dotless) proofs (predominantly inkjet but also toner-based) and virtual proofing, viewed on the monitor. Although each type is ideally suited for different stages in the production cycle, the lines have been blurred by improvements in imaging mechanisms, substrates, ink and col... More
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  Jonathan Agger, Consulting Technical Editor, 05/01/2006
  Many have argued that the dot proof is going the way of the buggy whip. It certainly seems that, given the current state of digital platemaking, the necessity for dots on a contract proof is at best a security blanket for those that can't accept the inevitable—time- and cost-savings are driving the entire packaging supply-chain to accept contone proofs. More
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  Alex Hamilton, Consulting Technical Editor, 08/01/2005
  So, why should you attend a trade show like PRINT® 05 and CONVERTING 05? First of all, there's the travel issue, with the time and cost of traveling to Chicago. After all, with a fast internet connection, you can find out just about everything you need to know about a vendor and its products without ever leaving your desk. More