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MarkTonk: we are using a Screen 'Dart' platesetter with Fuji processless plates. The problem with processless is that you can't really see the image on the plate, and apparently can't use a reflective densitometer to read it.
The install company is back to square one as of today. We are going to film on jobs for today while they start from scratch on the platesetter. I think bossman is having them hire someone from Kodak who does calibrations to set us up, as no one who has been here so far has a clue what they are doing.
Anyway, thanks for all the replies. I guess we want the same amount of dot gain that we had with film and plates. Still seems a little crazy to me, but as long as someone sets this up who knows what they're doing, it's not my problem anymore!!!!
Interesting side note: going back to the broken e-bay brisque is actually a nice change from this xitron set up we've started using! Kinda makes me wonder why we went direct to plate at all. We got a slower more PITA rip, we're putting back in the same dot gain we had anyway - why not just stick with film?
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