Comments on: Is Digital Printing Ready for the Mainstream? http://singleservingphoto.com/2007/08/10/is-digital-printing-ready-for-the-mainstream/ Photography in Small Doses Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Link Roundup: Headless Chicken Edition | goldengod http://singleservingphoto.com/2007/08/10/is-digital-printing-ready-for-the-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-924 Link Roundup: Headless Chicken Edition | goldengod Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:49:49 +0000 http://www.singleservingphoto.com/2007/08/10/is-digital-printing-ready-for-the-mainstream/#comment-924 [...] Is Digital Printing Ready for the Mainstream? -Aaron Bieber over at Single Serving Photo gives a quick overview of the current state of digital printing and how it relates to the quality of a good ol-fashioned silver gelatin print. [...] […] Is Digital Printing Ready for the Mainstream? -Aaron Bieber over at Single Serving Photo gives a quick overview of the current state of digital printing and how it relates to the quality of a good ol-fashioned silver gelatin print. […]

]]> By: Aaron http://singleservingphoto.com/2007/08/10/is-digital-printing-ready-for-the-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-921 Aaron Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:46:53 +0000 http://www.singleservingphoto.com/2007/08/10/is-digital-printing-ready-for-the-mainstream/#comment-921 Thanks for dropping by, Jim. What I have heard is that virtually any offset press can produce accurate results, but only if it is properly calibrated (creating color profiles and adjusting the ink densities), and the settings _locked_. That is what most printers won't do because they are accustomed to the "old school" method of running test prints and adjusting the ink densities on the fly for each job, which defeats the purpose of calibration. Using a properly calibrated offset workflow, presses can be adjusted much less frequently and jobs pushed through much faster (provided the digital source files were correctly soft proofed and so on). It's not a technical barrier, just a matter of the printing industry being generally intractable. Thanks for dropping by, Jim. What I have heard is that virtually any offset press can produce accurate results, but only if it is properly calibrated (creating color profiles and adjusting the ink densities), and the settings locked. That is what most printers won’t do because they are accustomed to the “old school” method of running test prints and adjusting the ink densities on the fly for each job, which defeats the purpose of calibration.

Using a properly calibrated offset workflow, presses can be adjusted much less frequently and jobs pushed through much faster (provided the digital source files were correctly soft proofed and so on). It’s not a technical barrier, just a matter of the printing industry being generally intractable.

]]> By: Jim http://singleservingphoto.com/2007/08/10/is-digital-printing-ready-for-the-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-920 Jim Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:30:18 +0000 http://www.singleservingphoto.com/2007/08/10/is-digital-printing-ready-for-the-mainstream/#comment-920 I have an appreciation for your comment on how offset lithography, if managed properly from the color side can render prints very close to that from inkjet printing. We manufacture an offset litho canvas (direct printing), and frequently tell folks that the success of the print will be determined in the pre-press color management. It is nice to see some validation to our point. I have an appreciation for your comment on how offset lithography, if managed properly from the color side can render prints very close to that from inkjet printing. We manufacture an offset litho canvas (direct printing), and frequently tell folks that the success of the print will be determined in the pre-press color management. It is nice to see some validation to our point.

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