SCREENING SYSTEMS -- Spotting an Opportunity

While he hasn't yet had an opportunity to use Co-Rés screening in prepress, Rink says the purported benefits of the technology do make sense. "The biggest advantage of the technology is in the file size," he asserts. Producing higher line rulings at lower resolutions reportedly keeps file sizes down to about half of what would be required with traditional screening systems. This reduces the prepress overhead.