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The current situation of the printing and plate making industry in the United States (3/4)

-- the speech of Clifford, director of Kodak film media department in Japan reappears

■ translated by Huang Xiuchen of Taiwan longchen Co., Ltd.

source: Taiwan printing think tank

on December 8, 1999, Kodak film company sent Mr. Kevin P. Clifford, director of printing media department, to print With the permission of Kodak Corporation of Japan, the full text of the report, which is reported by the plate making industry on the latest status of the printing industry in the United States, is hereby translated to share with readers and serve as a reference

Mr. Clifford is the trade relations manager of Kodak in the United States and Canada. He often supports the activities of American and Canadian printing industry groups, and also serves as the "director of printing media". He often supports various printing, plate making companies, advertising agencies, publishing companies, and also serves as a bridge between customers and enterprises

p is the charm of attracting customers

ctp is very attractive to customers, because the operation time can be shortened, so the time of content correction can be prolonged. In addition, the printing quality can also be improved. Then, through the digital operation process, special content can be provided to some specific readers, and customized business can also be carried out more effectively, so that the machine can be used most efficiently and the printing time can be won. Therefore, the cost of customers can also be reduced, especially the reduction of paper consumption can be expected. In printing companies, there are also problems that do not expect good management. The customer hopes to shorten the delivery time and reduce the price

printing companies that use CTP have a very large investment in machine hardware. In order to integrate new digital capabilities, they must also spend money to train employees. Therefore, the wear resistance experimenters of various materials under the customer speed of suppliers and business partners also recognize the savings generated by various degrees of digital workflow. Digitalization can reduce many troublesome factors and achieve consistent results with various adjustment times. It is also possible to reuse digital images and pages. The future work is to reuse digital images and pages, which can reduce costs for customers

18. Quality improvement printing companies and customers win-win strategy products are widely used by world-class medical products and medical device manufacturers slightly

the emergence of thermal CTP system enables us to expect better printing quality, which is beneficial to both sides. So although automobile manufacturers, as the main body of pollution control, obtain excellent quality due to the reduction of work projects, the color combination of CTP can also be completed early. In particular, the dots of the thermal printing plate are clearer and stronger than the traditional ones, and the thinner lines can also be expressed. The printing of words is also clearer. In the prepress operation, the dot expansion disappears because there is no problem of inversion and replication. Therefore, digital dots can increase the registration accuracy, and the printing preparation can be completed early

19. Two thirds of the United States uses digital proofreading

then introduce the current situation of the proofreading market in the United States. At present, only 35% of the traditional proofreading methods are available, that is, 2/3 of the color proofreading has been digital. Almost all digital proofreading adopts internal proofreading, with the exception of Kodak's approval using "contract proofing". Traditional non digital proofreading is still the main method of computer proofreading. In order to get the basis for the final recognition of color by customers, it has high value. Although the proportion of "contract proofs" or on-line external proofreading developed by digitization has increased, proofreading as printed samples is still the traditional way

20. Next, I want to talk about the desktop color proofreader (sublimation color proofreader), which provides a low-cost and efficient entry, its quality is very high, the factor is localized, and its operation process is also very reasonable. Users can get high-quality and correct initial proofs at low cost. Because they can get high-quality proofs as soon as possible and be recognized quickly, the problems in operation will be reduced to the minimum. At the same time, due to the requirements of printing, many people in the industry also use this low-cost desktop proofing machine for final proofreading. This reflects that from the current advanced desktop proofing machine, we can expect its very high quality and reliability. At the same time, Remote Proofing is also very efficient and saves working time, and the use of desktop proofreader has become possible

these advantages also affect the rate of return. Many customers' work processes have also changed from traditional proofreading to digital proofreading. The working time can be reduced to 25%, and the cost of proofreading can also be reduced by 1/3

the digital proofreader has amazing consistency, and it can also get the correctness of color. In Kodak's digital color proofreader, the consistent proofreading media is based on the ICC color specifications, color overlap and color overprint, as well as the advantages of calibration tools. At the same time, color management has become very important. The ICC (International Color Conference) has made a worldwide printing industry standard color specification. Our software is also based on this open standard. Calibration tools and software also play an important role in producing stable results. This is very important for the application of remote proofreading. It is necessary to calibrate the correct data of the proofreader in two or three places far away

at present, desktop proofreaders can adjust their calibration by using color codes, densitometers, spectrophotometer and other instruments. What matters is that all desktop proofreaders do not point but output proofs with continuous tones. In order to give customers high-quality proofs with final color recognition, although we can say that there are proofs of contract quality, desktop proofreaders cannot be used. The highly demanding "contract proofs" cannot be used without color proofs of the same type as the actual printing

21. Digital proofing moves towards Remote Proofing