Process Integration — Executing the Triple Play

“There’s no way you can globally change color on-press and make it better. The best sheet you can print is the one that’s in gray balance based on a three-color gray bar.”

Unfortunately, the most common process control practice used in printing plants today is to measure solid ink density color bars, laments the expert. “We don’t print solids; we print dots. Without a midtone dot-gain target and gray- balance patches, printers can’t measure color. They need to measure density, dot gain and gray balance,” he concludes.