SCREENING SYSTEMS -- Spotting an Opportunity

Images have greater detail and the screens are much smoother with the higher screen rulings enabled by Sublima, according to Monfette. In addition, patterning in flat tints is eliminated, he notes. All the benefits reportedly come with smaller file sizes.

The prepress director sees the potential for the screening process to enable use of process color tints in place of spot colors, but Kirkwood's promotion of the process had been restricted by the NDA (non-disclosure agreement) it signed as a beta site. "We haven't been able to say much about the technology," Monfette explains.