Substrate Options —‘Paper or Plastic?’

A printer who handles both paper and plastic learns to accommodate the impact of the differences between them on the workflow in his shop. To begin with, "the ink sets and the plate curves are different," Tenyer points out. "As paper printers, we're all about the dot. We spend a lot of time tuning the differences in all these substrates to our prepress plate curves, making sure we're always printing the same dot gains, traps, etc."