Details:
Year: 1986
Pages: 8
Summary:
The rapidity of the switch to halftone input by American gravure printers is unprecedented. One of the advantages of the new system is that it allows close correlation between prepress proof and press sheet, so corrections can be made before engraving the cylinders. A method of calibrating engraving machines to provide these advantages is included in the report, as well as a short update on the state of halftone gravure. Halftone gravure's background is briefly sketched. Reference is made to the Gravure Technical Association's approval of a new set of publication inks, Group VI, in mid-1985.