By: E&P Staff Newspaper printer Cannon Valley Printing, a division of Mainstream Publications LLC in Northfield, Minn., now lowers ink consumption and produces sharper images without workflow changes by using Kodak's Ink Optimizing Service, which decreases ink consumption, reduces waste and makeready time, and improves reproduction and on-press stability.
With ink optimizing, Kodak provides customers with an ICC DeviceLink profile that is plugged into the Kodak Prinergy Evo workflow. Based on the ICC DeviceLink profile, separated image files undergo gray component replacement (GCR), which reduces ink use by replacing CMY inks with less-expensive black ink, while limiting the total area coverage to a predefined level.
"With the Ink Optimizing Service, we no longer have many of the reproduction quality issues caused by images that come in without proper editing," Cannon Valley Printing General Manager Roger Stolley said in a statement. The printer also has "realized significant savings on ink," he added.
GCR reduces ink consumption by up to 25%, depending on image content, according to Kodak, which said use of its Staccato screening can further reduce ink use.
Cannon Valley Printing produces the Owatonna People's Press, Faribault Daily News and 14 weeklies for its parent company, as well as 30 non-owned weekly, bi-monthly and monthly titles.
In addition to Prinergy Evo, Cannon Valley Printing uses two Kodak Trendsetter News thermal platesetters, Kodak NS digital newspaper plates and Staccato screening capabilities.
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