CLOSED-LOOP COLOR CONTROL — SMALL CHALLENGES, BIG REWARDS

“What was really happening was that the water wasn’t going into the ink as well as it should have. (The water) had no place to go, so it would kind of surf on top of it. The closed-loop color system would ‘chase’ itself; it read the excess water and emulsification as low density, which forced the inking levels up, forcing the water elsewhere. While the fountain solution was the primary culprit, we know the ink changed a bit, too. We put a lot of effort into nailing down chemistry issues instead of throwing more chemicals at them.”