Computer To Plate : vertical lines in Kodak THERMAL gold CTP plates

Computer To Plate :: RE: vertical lines in Kodak THERMAL gold CTP plates
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Kodak has been experiencing some "issues" with the Thermal Gold plates
recently. If you have noticed that the boxes that the plates come in now
have a White colored label on them instead of the usual Gold colored
label. Kodak says that this has nothing to do with the plates and is a
cost cutting measure, but, since this change happened, there have been
MANY plate problems around the country. These lines you describe is one
symptom, especially on the Magnus series machines. The "fix" from Kodak
is to reduce your drum speed and power by about 20%, until the resolve
the ... - Read More..

You should check out the PlateScope by Techkon. It's a German company,
but available in the USA. It's MUCH faster than Xrite, and more accurate
than icPlate or ccDot. There is NO extensive calibration required, it's
a simple white spot built onto the charging cradle. It also has features
to export pictures of the image to whatever you want, and the Pro model
lets you calibrate your CTP curves. It can also read color, although it
took some experimentation to figure out how to "read" it. You can
measure the dots on screen, in microns, if you want actual dot sizes,
and it has a 4X zoom also, and can store several hu... - Read More..

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